Sustainable Infrastructure in the Era of the New Normal: Infrastructur

The infrastructure and transportation system studio is a case study-based course that aims to develop students' knowledge and skills in planning regional infrastructure and transportation development. This mandatory studio for second year urban and regional planning master students is a medium for them to practive theories and concepts acquired in the first year. The studio not only focuses on the substantive aspect of the plan but also focus on student skill development to work together in a team. This year, due to travel restrictions during COVID 19 pandemic, a new approach was introduced in terms of studio teaching methods and surveys. This includes changing teaching platforms to fully online where students were allowed to join studio from home and contributed in different ways to studio work.

Main objectives of this studio are by completion of the work, students: 1). Better understand theories, concepts, subject matter as well as cases of urban infrastructure and transportation system planning
2). Having comprehensive capabilities to explore and elaborate different types of information and knowledge relevant to planning and development objectives and accordingly the analytical methods
3). Are capable to prepare planning recommendations to provide optimal solutions regarding problems analysed. This year, students explored different government regulations related planning and arrangements in aticipation to COVID 19 pandemic as well as elaborated how local governments have applied SDGs indicators and target in development plans. The consequences on infrastructure planning were measured in ways they have/have not fulfilled development objectives. In this studio, students exercised Sustainable infrastructure Framework as analytical framework which was considered as alternative planning methods and provided feedback regarding its feasibility as a planning approach.