Exercise 3.2—The Plan and the City This exercise aims at exploring the impact of the physical form proposals of one plan in the urban history of a city. ‘The plan and the city’ should be developed as a homework exercise. Each student should select one plan from a list of plans of great relevance in his country’s planning history, previously prepared by the teacher.

The list of plans (similar to the list in Table 3.1) should be gathered considering the access of students to data.

The analysis of each plan should address three main aspects: i. the original urban form proposals of the plan (based on the plans’ maps, written proposals, and regulations);

ii. the proposals that have been implemented on the ground, distinguishing these from non-implemented proposals (based on a map of the city that has been prepared subsequently to plan implementation); and, finally, iii. how today’s physical form of the city is still influenced by this plan (using software for the interactive visualization of maps and satellite images, like Google Earth, Bing Maps, or Baidu Maps).

Each student should prepare a brief PowerPoint presentation (5–10 min, 10 slides maximum) to be presented in the classroom. The student should use text and images

(drawings and photographs), or any means that he thinks is adequate.