After successful completion of the course, students are able to identify the causes and framework conditions of informal urban development processes. They have the competence to explain complex actor structures and interests in informal urban development processes. The students are also able to explain differences to formally planned urban development processes.

The informal city: Interpretations, processes, actors.

Central themes of the course are informal urbanisation processes and their consequences for urban dwellers, especially in economically disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods in countries of the global South. The dynamics of these processes are in obvious contrast to the claim to influence urban development through planning and project management. Urban growth continues unabated, urban development takes place - planned, unplanned or planned in "another" way.
The change from a rural to an urban society, aspects of (internal) migration, the emergence of an informal sector and the resulting consequences for urban development up to the formation of mega-cities and informal settlement areas are under discussion. The regional focus is on the Latin American region.

Organization

The course is held in blocks: 6 lecture dates with a subsequent interactive block as teamwork (attendance required).

The course will be held exclusively online in WS 2020-21, medium used: zoom.

Start: Wed Oct 14, 2020  09.30 hrs

- Discussion of case studies and good-practice examples through presentations and subsequent group work during lectures
- Specific literature recommendations for reading the individual case studies

Programm und Timing 
Ort:    online / zoom
 
Mi 14. Okt 09.30  - 12.30
• Porträts zur informellen Stadtentwicklung
Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro; Asentamiento Humano Alex Rafael Chacón, Lima, Villa 31, Buenos Aires sowie La Candelaria, Managua.
• Teamwork interaktiv
 
Mi 21. Okt 09.30 - 12.30
• Zwischen Planung und spontanem Wachstum.
Rahmenbedingungen der Stadtentwicklung im globalen Kontext.
• Teamwork interaktiv
 
Mi 04. Nov 09.30 - 12.30  
• Das Phänomen der informellen Stadtentwicklung.
Kurzgeschichten aus Forschung und Entwurfspraxis.
• Teamwork interaktiv
 
Mi 11. Nov 09.30 - 12.30
• Marginalquartier, Slum, Invasionsbezirk, Favela.
Rahmenbedingungen und Entwicklungsperspektiven zum Lebensraum der Informellen Stadt.
• Teamwork interaktiv
 
Mi 18. Nov 09.30 - 12.30
• Villa El Salvador, Lima. Von der Landbesetzung zum Stadtquartier 
Dokumentarfilm: Villa El Salvador: A desert dream,Adobe Productions, 1989
• Teamwork interaktiv
 
Mi 02. Dez  09.30 - 12.30
• Informelle Ökonomie im urbanen Raum:Der öffentliche Raum als Arbeitsplatz.
• Teamwork interaktiv
 
Mi 09. Dez  09.30 - 12.30
„Research zur Informellen Stadt“(Projektbesprechung)
  
Mi 16. Dez  09.30 - 12.30
Schlusspräsentation:„Research zur Informellen Stadt“
Abschluss der Lehrveranstaltung
 
 
 
 
 

The performance evaluation is carried out by evaluating a case study (exercise part: "Research on the Informal City" in the context of a poster presentation).

Basic knowledge of urban development processes and their framework conditions