Recommended Study Sequence

This unit will deal with the significance of the morphology of the city and the changes influencing its transformatin within metropolitan regions. Urban managers make decisions in relation to land use, housing and transportation that will require the capability and the tools to perform spatial demographic and statistical analysis of the suburbanisation processes will provide the understanding and the tools to design solutions to urban challenges. This unit will provide an overview of the expertise to be acquired within the full program.

This unit deals with the globalisation of the economy and the increasing 'regionalisation' of economic activity and the challenges they bring to the work of urban managers and planners. The unit will provide a solid understanding of the social, econimic, industrial, technological, employment, environmental and innovation factors affecting urban development. Students will learn how labour markets, industry knowledge intensity, environmental innovation, industrial restructuring; design of living places and business networks shape patterns of local and regional development. An important competence to be built by the students is the capacity to analyse global forces acting at the local level and how to provide the strategies needed to deal with these forces in a sustainable way.

The unit will provide students with the opportunity to develop a high level of conceptual understanding in relation to their chosen local or offshore Urban management project. The unit is intended to facilitate the effective conduct of the Urban Management Placement Project. It will be tailored to meet the research and analytical needs of students undertaking scoping for a diverse range of placement projects.

The Urban Management Placement Project and thesis are the capstone units for the award. They are undertaken in conjunction with the Project Research Design Seminars which provide many of the research tools for the project and thesis. The project and thesis will enable a high level of conceptual engagement, practical experience, research and critical analysis to be applied to a local or international urban management problem. Students will be offered and negotiate placements in the local urban industry or in slelect cases abroad. For some local students these placement projects may address appropriate urban management problems in their firm or organisation. In close conjunction with the skills development in the Masters Research project they will undertake the completion of analysis and reporting on the resolution of a particular urban management research project. These may relate for example to aspects of planning and development, to environmental management, to local economic social or cultural development. The Project will culminate in the presentation of a project Report/Thesis. The thesis will be developed in the second half based on the placement project in the first half year of the program. The progressive development of the report and the methodology for its prosecution I anticipate the placement to insure the maximum benefit from placement when it occurs.

This unit will focus on understanding the complex webs of stakeholders, government departments, industry interest groups and powerful not-for profit organisations co-existing in urban settlements today. Understanding how these different systems work, which governance models they follow and which regulations needs to be taken into account at the Australian and International level is a critical competence for planners and urban managers. The rise of metropolitan regions such as Sydney, Los Angeles or Barcelona point out the need for expertise on metropolitan management. Governance also impacts upon social integration or exclusion; students will learn to design strategies that promote social cohesion as a key foundation of economic competitiveness.

This unit focuses on develop strategic thinking of Cities as magnets of the global economy. Cities generate technologies, produce a growing share of international trade and attract both financial flows and migration. The unit will provide grounded understanding on the financial aspects of managing urban environments, and managing the creation of commercially viable environments. Urban managers and planners deal with regeneration projects that needs to be financed or export projects where understanding of international markets is an advantage. They also need to be aware of the new theories on natural capitalism and on accounting systems for intangibles such as innovation and intellectual assests or environmental assets.

The unit will provide students with the opportunity to develop a high level of conceptual understanding in relation to their chosen local or offshore Urban Management Project. The unit is intended to facilitate the effective completion of the Urban Management Placement Thesis. It will be tailored to meet the research and analytical needs of students undertaking a diverse range of placement projects.

The Urban Management Placement Project and Thesis are the capstone units for the award. They are undertaken in conjunction with the Project Research Design Seminars which provide many of the research tools for the project and thesis. The project and thesis will enable a high level of conceptual engagement, practical experience, research and critical analysis to be applied to a local or international urban management problem. Students will be offered and negotiate placements in the local urban industry or in select cases abroad. For some local students these placement projects may address appropriate urban management problems in their firm or organisation. In close conjunction with the skills development in the Masters Research project they will undertake the completion of analysis and reporting on the resolution of a particular urban management research project. These may relate for local economic social or cultural development. The Project will culminate in the presentation of a project Report/Thesis. The Thesis will be developed in the second half based on the placement project in the first half year of the program. The progressive development of the report and the methodology for its prosecution anticipate the placement to insure the maximum benefit from placement when it occurs.

This unit aims to explore positive and negative social impacts of tourism, techniques for assessment and the importance in community development of planning for social impacts in a range of developed/ developing and urban/ non-urban settings. The unit’s objectives are to provide an understanding of the nature of social impacts associated with tourism planning and development; the paradoxes generated by and oppositional forces at play created by social impacts of tourism in a community and methods and techniques of social impact assessment and their use in tourism contexts.

This unit introduces students to the basic theories of tourism planning in the context of sustainable development. Students will understand the critical contemporary issues in relation to sustainable tourism planning and development. The planning implications and critical problems of local participation in the planning process through a wide range of situational case studies in both developed and developing countries will be discussed. The emphasis of this unit is the dynamic and complex theories of tourism planning. The changes brought by tourism development require both public and private sectors to have specialised knowledge and training in order to achieve sustainable outcomes.

This unit introduces students to the application of tourism planning tools for impact assessment, evaluation and monitoring systems to conserve tourism resources as well as satisfy all tourism stakeholders. Case studies of sustainable tourism planning and development practices from around the world will be used to show lessons to be learned. The emphasis of the unit is on applied planning skills for integrated tourism planning in the varied developmental contexts of tourist destinations. Multi-dimensional tourism development impacts will be evaluated. Tourism master plan and strategic action plans in selected case studies will be critiqued and assessed as a student final project.

This unit integrates tourism and recreation planning with the use of geographic information systems (GIS). It introduces GIS principles and develops database management and mapping and spatial analysis skills. No previous GIS experience is assumed. It examines the application of GIS to sustainable tourism planning and research. Research methods are stressed through the collection of field data and the critical examination of the representation of places through GIS and the World Wide Web. Problems of strategic environmental assessment and social impacts of development are addressed. The unit involves a problem-oriented approach, workshops, computer laboratory sessions, fieldwork, group work and presentations.

This unit emphasises the role of environmental management in attainment of ecologically sustainable development. Students will be introduced to a variety of methods relevant to the assessment of environmental impacts and review the history of impact assessment in legislation and policy. Students will be provided with a number of environmental assessments and be required to critically evaluate the quality of the process. In small groups students will undertake an environmental assessment of a proposed development to gain insight into the process of EIA preparation. Students will also be introduced to the field of environmental auditing through industrial visits incorporating auditing exercises. Other environmental assessment tools will be introduced.

Students will learn to use tools and appreciate the complexity of regional environmental management and planning. Building on their local and site specific environmental management knowledge, the regional planning looks at the difficulties encountered when practicing environmental management on a broader spatial scale.

This unit examines environmental management policy and its practice in a variety of settings. In terms of policy, the unit begins with a brief overview of the policy principles associated with the concept of sustainable development. In terms of management practice, students are invited to select a vocationally relevant change strategy from a range introduced in the study materials. These include National and Local Planning, ISO 140000 and Healthy Settings. Students are required to examine the implications of the use of one of these strategies in their workplace/community. The unit guides this process by providing in depth materials in the fields of change management, organisational learning and policy development. The unit is offered in a distance-learning mode with two compulsory workshops.

This unit explores the philosophy, policies and practice of sustainable development. In exploring environmental philosophy the unit provides students with an understanding of the nature and emergence of both modern and post-modern paradigms that influence the direction and nature of current development policy. The nature of environmental policy is examined by developing an understanding of how values and attitudes shape a governing ethic about environmental management. The social, political, economic and ecological elements of sustainable development are unfolded to aid students understanding of what needs to be managed. Particular attention is given to those issues confronting developing countries as they move to become industrialised nations yet have high levels of poverty. Finally, the unit introduces the practice of environmental impact assessment as one management tool used in the management process.

This unit places greater emphasis on the evaluation and development of feasibility studies for the purposes of selecting development projects, evaluating different options and making the decision as to whether to proceed to detailed feasibility study stage.

This unit is replacing VA802Z - Income Property Appraisal. Develop understanding of theory and practice of valuation of retail, office and industrial property. Critically evaluate the various risk factors in retail, office and industrial property investments. This unit concentrates upon income producing properties. It forms an essential resource for property investment analysis and property development.

This unit examines the role of property in an investment portfolio, with particular attention given to property portfolio performance analysis and property investment strategy. The performance analysis of both direct and indirect property is also examined to assess the strategic contribution of property to an investment portfolio.

Property development is an extremely complex activity which involves a vast range of considerations over a wide range of inter related subject areas. It is probably the most complex activity undertaken by property people except perhaps 'active' property management which should incorporate property development activities. The aims of this unit are to provide a wide ranging study of the property development process including such considerations as the objectives, functions, roles and methods of operation of all those involved in the development process, the financial aspects of development, social considerations, taxation aspects, planning matters and others, and to provide students with the opportunity to develop their understanding of and their expertise in the subject.