Neighborhood Planning and Design | Makerere University Courses

Neighborhoods remain an important locus of everyday life. In particular, the quality of a neighborhood's housing stock, physical infrastructure, social relationships (both internal and external), environment, and employment and business opportunities have a major impact on the quality of life experienced by its residents.The course focuses on skills, practices and values fundamental to successful neighbourhood planning. The various planning approaches upon which the field is based forms the major component of the course.

Learning Outcomes:

A broad understanding of the purposes of neighbourhood planning and design
Basic competence to manage a neighbourhood planning process.
Fundamental Design Skills – Ability to apply basic organizational, principles to the conception and development of neighbourhoods
Collaborative Skills – Ability to identify and assume divergent roles that maximize individual talents, and to cooperate with other students when working as members of a design team and in other settings.

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