After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

After successful completion of the course, students are able to recognize the current urban transformation processes and interpret the issue of urban sprawl with regard to its complex background. In particular, students will be taught alternative strategies to classical planning that expand the interface between urban development and housing.

When housing itself becomes an urban landscape, the next step is to work out the subtle relationships and qualities. In this course, settlement parameters and their effects on housing as well as the existing urban/rural and cultural environment are considered. The aim is to look at housing from the professional fields of urban planning, urban design, urban research and social space. This creates new ways of looking at different spatial references, which, when applied in practice, generate new qualities in housing. Housing thus clearly goes beyond the category of residential construction and, as a program in urban planning, becomes a reference system of complex requirements of contextual parameters. The focus on Italy, which will accompany the department in the coming semester, will also be clearly visible in this course through the focus on examples from our neighboring country to the south.

The structured lecture follows a dialogical principle, especially in the next repetition, which also aims at a high level of general knowledge.

Wednesdays 4.00-6:00 pm

1st lecture: April 10 2024, 4:00 pm

Exam: written and oral in groups between 6 and 8 studants

Proof of performance is provided by a written and oral examination. The oral part takes place in a group, so that a larger part of the material can be repeated for all participants.