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.

Thematic focus 2023-24:
"The bottom-up city: interpretations, processes, actors."

Keywords:

Arrival City, Slums, Favelas, Bottom-up development, Mega Cities, Informal Economy 

The central topics of the course are informal urbanisation processes, especially in the so-called "countries of the global south" or "developing countries" as they used to be called. The dynamics of these processes are in obvious contrast to the claim to influence urban development through centralised planning and development control. Urban growth continues unabated, urban development takes place - planned, unplanned or planned in "other-", for example informal ways.

The speed of the globalisation phenomenon and its consequences reinforce the polarisation between controlled and uncontrolled processes, but at the same time also create potential for change, such as the breaking down of the demarcation between the formerly so-called "First" and "Third World". The change from a rural to an urban society, aspects of (internal) migration, the emergence of an informal sector and the resulting urban planning consequences up to the formation of mega-cities and informal settlement neighbourhoods created through bottom-up planning processes are under discussion. The geographic focus is the Latin American region.

Organization

The course will be held in blocks and in presence.
- 6 lecture dates, each followed by an interactive block as teamwork. (Attendance is required)
- The exercise part titled "promoting the informal" deals with current issues of global informal urban development and its potentials for steering processes in planning. This serves as a credit for the course.

Programm und Timing 

Geblockt: jeweils Montag 09.00 bis 11.30 und Mittwoch 14.00 bis 16.30 Uhr

Beginn: Mi 18. Oktober // Schlusspräsentation: Mi 20. Dezember 2023

Mi 18. Okt 2023 14.00 Uhr

• Porträts zur informellen Stadtentwicklung (VO)

Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro; Asentamiento Humano Alex Rafael Chacón, Lima; Villa 31, Buenos Aires sowie La Candelaria, Managua.

• Teamwork interaktiv

Mo 23. Okt. 09.00 Uhr

• Zwischen Planung und spontanem Wachstum (VO)

Rahmenbedingungen für die (informelle) Stadtentwicklung im globalen Kontext.

• Teamwork interaktiv

Mi 25. Okt  14.00 Uhr

• Die Phänomenologie der informellen Stadtentwicklung (VO)

Kurzgeschichte(n) aus Forschung und Projektpraxis.

• Teamwork interaktiv

Mo 6. Nov. 2021 09.00 Uhr

•  Marginalquartier, Slum, Invasionsbezirk, Favela (VO)

Nutzungsmuster und Entwicklungsperspektiven zum Lebensraum der Informellen Stadt.

• Teamwork interaktiv

Mi 08. Nov 14.00 Uhr

• Villa El Salvador, Lima. Von der Landbesetzung zum Stadtquartier (Film)

Dokumentarfilm: Villa El Salvador: A desert dream, Adobe Productions, 1989

• Intro: „promoting the informal“ // Übungsteil

Mo 13. Nov. 09.00 Uhr

• Informelle Ökonomie im urbanen Raum: Der öffentliche Raum als Arbeitsplatz. (VO)

• Teamwork interaktiv

Übungsteil „promoting the informal“

Mo 20. Nov. 09.00 Uhr

Konzeptpresentation: „promoting the informal“ 

(Zwischen 20. Nov und 11. Dez besteht die Möglichkeit von individuellen online-Projektbesprechungsterminen)

Mo 11 Dez  Übungsteil „promoting the informal“ (Projektbesprechung)

Mi 13 Dez  Übungsteil „promoting the informal“ (Projektbesprechung)

Mo 18 Dez  Übungsteil „promoting the informal“ (Projektbesprechung)

Mi 20. Dez. 2023  14.00 Uhr

Schlusspräsentation: „promoting the informal“

Abschluss der Lehrveranstaltung

- 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

Organisation

The course is held in blocks a
- 6 lecture dates, each followed by an interactive block as teamwork.
(Attendance is required )
- The exercise part entitled deals with current issues of global informal urban development and its potentials for steering processes in planning. This serves as a credit for the course.

Info: Der Forschungsbereich ist physisch voraussichtlich noch das gesamte Wintersemester 2023-24 im 

Temporären Quartier „Argentinierstraße 8 / 3. Stock zu finden.

see "Organization"