Registered Members
6.5. Annual subscriptions shall be payable at the commencement of the Institute’s financial year. Membership shall lapse if the subscription is unpaid three months after it is due. The names of lapsed members shall be removed from the Roll of Members.
The eligibility criteria to award professional membership is based on the completion of an ‘accredited’ Urban Design degree. UDISA will grant automatic professional membership to applicants that hold a degree that comprises at least one year of study and includes an urban design studio component (as compared with pure research).
MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES
To accommodate the wide range of interest groups associated with urban design, membership is organised into seven categories.
1. Honorary Member:
Individuals are nominated by the Executive Committee for their contributions(s) to the profession. No membership fee.
2. Professional Urban Designers:
Individuals with a post-graduate urban design qualification from an accredited tertiary education institute plus a minimum of four years practical experience qualify for this category.
Membership Fee: R 600
3. Urban Designer-in-Training
Individuals with a post-graduate urban design qualification from an accredited tertiary education institute. Two years of practical training in a registered professional urban designers’ practice will qualify individuals for automatic membership to the “Professional Urban Designer’ category’. Membership Fee: R 350
5. Non- Active/ Overseas:
Individuals with a post-graduate urban design qualification from an accredited tertiary education institute plus a minimum of four years practical experience qualify for this category. Member do not practice urban Design in South Africa. Membership Fee: R 350
6. Retired member:
Individuals with a post-graduate urban design qualification from an accredited tertiary education institute plus a minimum of four years practical experience qualify for this category. Member no longer practice Urban Design in South Africa. Membership Fee: R 350
7. Student member:
This category is open to any student in urban design training. Students must apply for membership for acceptance by the Membership Committee. No membership Fee.
THE FIELDS AND PRODUCTS OF URBAN DESIGN
The urban designer should be able to contribute to the various fields within the activity of urban design and to formulate urban design products. These fields and products vary in scope and nature and include the following:
- Input towards spatial structure and local area plans
- Rural settlement design
- Visual impact assessments
- Conservation
- Heritage and special place assessments
- Integrated urban design and landscape frameworks
- Policy formulation,
- Development and design frame works
- Precinct plans and action areas,
- Urban layout and subdivisions
- Development and design controls and guidelines
- The formulation of design briefs for development
- The formulation of architectural briefs
- Housing and the design and layout of subdivisional patterns and housing types according to urban design and architectural principles and guidelines
- Implementation structures, mechanisms and techniques
- Design and implementation of the public environment
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