UD5625 Methods and Tools for Urban Design

This module is intended for MSc in Real Estate and MAUD students and others at the Business School and the School of Design and Environment who aspire to learn about geographic information in the urban context and attain basic GIS skills. This inter-programme module has a multidisciplinary touch and much of it is focused on a variety of applications. The module focuses on urban problems, but the generic skills you develop in this module will be useful for a wide range of data, and give you a solid foundation to explore particular and focused problems. This module is composed of lectures, demos, tutorials, readings and range of assignments, providing hands-on the state of the art tools, datasets, and methods to manipulate, analyse, and visualise geospatial data. Upon completion of the module, students will be able to: Start thinking about data spatially; Collect appropriate geospatial data and assess its suitability; Use QGIS, one of the most widely used GIS software packages; Conduct data processing and spatial analysis; Portray the results in an effective way; Be critical with maps and spatial analyses; Use the attained knowledge and skills in their studies and career.