15144 Group Project B: Greenfields Development

This subject is a group and project-based subject designed to develop students' skills in planning larger scale urban developments, such as large scale subdivisions or new greenfields developments, involving environmental assessment, design of infrastructure and services, consideration of land use and density controls, etc. Students form into small groups, and develop a masterplan for a larger-scale urban development, including the design and assessment of alternative proposals for the site. Approaches to, and techniques for, the planning of urban expansion are taught including population and household forecasting, constraint mapping, land use zone allocation, urban facilities population thresholds, and street and road layouts.