Lehrinhalte
In the individual disciplines of sociology, architecture, urban planning, and landscape planning, the respective subject-specific fundamentals are taught as building blocks for dealing with complex tasks of Urban Design.
In the course Introduction to Urban Design (Module Part 1), the following topics are covered:
The 'Sociology Building Block' deals with the history and theory of urban planning practice. Referring to various disciplines (sociology, political science, history, geography), it examines how the emergence, development, and continuous transformation of urban planning interacts with changing configurations of urbanization, modern state power, and socio-political conflicts.
In the course Global City - Local Spaces (Module Part 2), the following topics are covered:
Urbanization processes and trends in an international comparison,
comparative discussion of city typologies, urban space concepts, and their impacts on living conditions and the environment,
influences of globalization, development of mega-cities considering social and spatial fragmentation,
fundamentals of controlling urban development processes in an international comparison, informal urban and settlement development.
In the course Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice (Module Part 3), the following topics are covered:
The 'Urban Planning Building Block' deals with the impacts of urban planning models and procedures as well as the underlying social, economic, and institutional factors on the design of local, city-wide, and regional spatial contexts.
The 'Landscape Architecture and Open Space Planning Building Block' addresses in-depth issues of open space in relation to spatial structures, social practices, and underlying nature concepts.
In both blocks, the focus is on engaging with various city and regional concepts and current urbanization and participation processes, their theoretical integration, and the associated urban, landscape, and open space concepts.
Interfaces to different analysis and design methods, including questions of participatory design and creation, are shown across disciplines.
