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Teaching Modes

TopThis module will be taught with a 13-week series of lectures and "mini" weekly group projects. For each week, the first two hours would be lectures/seminars on vaious topics relating to Urban Policies and Real Estate Markets. The topic for each week will be reinforced in the following week with students (working in small teams) taking on examples or comparative case studies that relate to the subject taught in the preceding week, to illustrate the principles and concepts. These are small projects with each team making a 30 minutes presentation on the subject brief. The respective teams are expected to prepare a written report following the presentation.

Each team will comprise around 4 students and is expected to be of balanced composition in terms of student background and experience.

This mode of teaching/learning is to provide an opportunity not only to delve deeper into each topic taught, and provide useful and practical learning experiences, given the diverse background of the students. It will also enable students to participate actively in class and to share their professional experiences.

Students would be assessed for their participation in the group projects, individual contribution in class and the final examination.

Schedule

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Week Dates	Lecture	Tutorial	Assignment #/ Due Dates
1 Jan 14-18	Institutional environment for land development in Singapore (ML)
2 Jan 21-25	Regulatory regimes and development management (ML)
3 Jan 28-Feb 1	Urban Planning and the Real Estate Market (ML)	Weekly Group project 1: Institutional Environment and comparative planning and regulatory systems (Teams A&B)
4 Feb 4-8 *CNY Holiday 5/2 Tue and 6/2 Wed	Market-led and market-critical approaches (ML) – incentive based planning	Weekly Group project 2: Planning and Markets – transport planning policies and case studies (Teams C&D)	Project 1 submission due
5 Feb 11-15	Use Rights Transfer/Exchange	Weekly Group project 3: Incentive-based planning – Green development policies (Teams E&F)	Project 2 submission due
6. Feb 18-22	Performance-based planning (ML)	Weekly Group Project 4: Use Rights Transfer – urban conservation policies and case studies (Teams G&H)	Project 3 submission due
RECESS WEEK 23 FEBRUARY – 3 MARCH 2019
7. Mar 4-8	Urban forms, superstar cities, and urban policies (FY)		Project 4 submission due
8. Mar 11-15	Rental model and behavioural response to cooling measures in real estate market (FY)
9 Mar 18-22	Place-based policy and impact evaluation in housing and related market (FY)	Weekly Group Project 5: Housing policies and socioeconomic impacts (Teams A&B)
10 Mar 25-29	Gentrification and real estate market (FY)	Weekly Group Project 6: Tradition and modernization (Teams C&D)	Project 5 submission due
11 Apr 1-5	Migration policy and real estate market (FY)	Weekly Group project 7: Migration/immigration policies and liveability of city (Teams E&F)	Project 6 submission due
12 Apr 8-12	Noise policy and real estate market (FY)	Weekly Group project 8: Urban policies and city pollution (Teams G&H)	Project 7 submission due
13 Apr 15-19 *Good Fri 19/4	-		Project 8 submission due As this session falls on the Good Friday holiday, the revision session will be held at the end of the first and second half of the semesters for the respective sessions
READING PERIOD 20 – 26 APRIL 2019
MAIN EXAMINATION 27 APRIL – 11 MAY 2019

Assessment

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Components of ssessment
Weekly Group Project and class participation	60% ^#
Examination:	40%	*OPEN BOOK / ~~CLOSED BOOK~~ EXAM
Total Grade	100%	* SPECIFIED /UNSPECIFIED TEXT # 30% for the first half and 30% for the second half of the semester