In this course you will acquire and develop and apply a range of key urban design skills of value to planners, while critically reflecting on urban design as it is professionally practised. A framework for understanding, critiquing and undertaking urban design analysis is presented as a basis for the course. You will respond to a contemporary urban design analysis brief focusing on a case study site. You will develop urban design analysis and provide recommendations or structure plan that will be presented and critiqued. You will engage in independent as well as collaborative fieldwork, research, analysis and design activities to inform your ideas and proposals. You will be encouraged to reflect critically upon the skills you are developing and the way in which planning interconnects with urban design, using theoretical and practical understandings.