2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

FOEV5004M City Systems: Sustainable Housing

15 creditsClass Size: 40

Module manager: Paul Chatterton
Email: p.chatterton@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Jan to 30 Jun View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

Urban housing systems are facing a number of areas of dysfunction in terms of environmental performance, affordability, inequality, segregation, delivery, community ownership, land availability and procurement. In this context, creating low impact, zero energy, affordable and community responsive models are becoming high priorities for all cities across the world. New delivery models for sustainable urban housing models are emerging to respond to this; they include co-operatives, custom and self-build, cohousing and land trusts.

Objectives

This module aims to equip students with an understanding of contemporary issues and debates in terms of current housing challenges and how to transition to a more sustainable urban housing system. This module uses mixed taught and problem based learning to give students the tools to understand the challenges facing urban housing systems and how to make system transformations for sustainability. Students will be presented with a design challenge to construct affordable, low impact community housing neighbourhoods.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. understand the current urban housing system and intercultural and international aspects; challenges, features, institutions and impacts;
2. understand the key drivers of housing supply and demand; and, be able to identify city specific issues raised in debates on sustainable housing systems
3. critically evaluate the intentions of urban interventions to develop sustainable housing, and demonstrate capability in discussing and critically evaluating future options for creating more sustainable urban housing systems.
4. demonstrate and use in-depth specialist knowledge and techniques relevant to sustainable urban housing systems
5. demonstrate an advanced understanding of concepts, information and techniques used by housing system planners and stakeholders at the forefront of the discipline;

Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
1. Acquire new qualitative, quantitative and digital skills in researching and analysis from an action research perspective. 
2. Diagnose and solve real world problems using new data analysis and action research techniques; Take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others
3. Critically analyse the social, environmental and economic impacts of key topics; Ability to form logical, reasonable conclusions and make sound recommendations based on available data and/or observations.
4. Understand multilevel decision-making across critical systems and how suitability metrics are mobilised to affect decision-making. 
5. Evaluate opportunities to embed innovations in system design, governance and re-production. 

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	5	2.00	10.00
seminars	2	4.00	8.00
Practicals	2	6.00	12.00
Private study hours			120.00
Total Contact hours			30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will receive formative feedback from their group work, which will directly inform their summative coursework due in later in the module. This will take the form of both oral feedback at the end of the presentations, written feedback per group, and written/oral feedback to the cohort as a whole.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	Coursework	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Private study will be undertaken as party of the student’s problem based learning. It will be guided around a specific problem, set by the module leader and contribute to the overall learning outcomes of the module. Students will present initial outcomes of problem based learning in group presentations, which they will build on in individual project reports.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

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