School Of Social SciencesLand Use Strategy DesignWestern Sydney University Unit Code: DN312A.1
Discipline: URBAN DESIGN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
About this Unit
This unit deals with land use planning - with the methodical and participatory allocation of land to use - of any land, private or public or both, and any land uses. It develops themes raised in DN209A Land Evaluation. The aim is to design area wide land use plans, each plan showing for a particular interest group, which of a range of land uses is preferred at each of a range of locations. A systematic approach is applied such that interest group plans can be formally compared and, so far as possible, ameliorated in support of the process of political decision on the preferred land use strategy. Unit content includes: problem clarification, setting land use constraints and objectives, designing decision areas, generating strategy options, collecting data and producing indicators of objective-achievement, tabulating objective-achievement ratings, choosing and mapping partisan preferred land use strategies and comparing strategies on the basis of their consequences.