The course aims to offer students an introduction to cultural geographical understanding of cities, and skills to both express traditions and values, and to record ongoing interactions between people and city. By understanding an integrated matrix of cultural landscape values, the tangible expressions of place and people and the intangible values residing in those places can be appreciated, preserved and managed. Students shall know the relationships between creativity, culture and city processes. Furthermore, the increasing urban processes such as economic growth, built environment regeneration and community development operate in and through cultural logics shall be known. In more details, students should know: the rise of culture in the city, urban sub-cultures, heritage and memory, the city and the creative city, natural systems, land use/patterns/clusters, spatial organization, visual relationships, circulation system, spatial character, form and scale of habitable structures. In addition, knowledge and skill of landscape architectures, which emphasize capability for creativity, shall be introduced.

Continuous Assessment: 100%