Lehrziele Gruppe Giffinger/Pühringer
- Discussion of recent challenges and regional policies
- analysis of most relevant examples - case studies
- elaboration of meaning of urban and regional planning
- develope an own understanding and position related to digitalisation
Teaching goals, seminar group Getzner/Reinberg
(the seminar will be partially taught in English and is open also for international Master students)
- Strategic positions of the urban/local government, administration, public management, and investors and developers in urban development
- Dealing with own research topics/questions
- Collection and assessment of decision frameworks and negotiation strategies
Description of the seminar by Voigt/Tschirk/Wieshofer:
The multifaceted changes affecting our living spaces, such as the predominantly inward focus of settlement development together with changes in mobility, landscape, demography, energy and not least climate, call for clearly structured, integrated strategies and concepts for transformation.
In terms of content, the seminar focuses on:
- Processes & strategies in the spatial context
- Strategic planning
Description of the seminar by Franta: Thematic Focus "Urban development Politics in Vienna".
Against the background of changes in governance and planning in the context of postfordist processes of urban restructuring, the seminar mainly concentrates on questioning, how these changes alter political decision-making processes and power structures in urban development. Hence, its focus is on analysing and scrutinizing "urban politics" in Vienna, particularly with regard to the development and implementation of large scale urban development projects.
Start Group Franta: Oct 10th, 9-11am in room Seminarraum 268/1
Objectives group Giffinger/Pühringer:
Topic: Digitalisation of territorial developement
- Theory of territorial development and digitalisation
- precise analysis of empirical trends and problems with focus on strategies, actors, processes and measures
- critical discussion of the meaning of digitalisation and its impacts on territorial development and for planning approached
- own elaboration of interrelations between digitalisation and the components of territorial capital and discussion of empirical examples
Ablauf und Leistungsbeurteilung
- Anwesenheitspflicht bei den Plenumsterminen
- Verfassen einer wissenschaftlich fundierten Seminararbeit in 3er-Gruppen
- Eigenständige Themenfindung, Literatursuche und empirische Arbeit
- Aufbereitung von Zwischenergebnissen für die Diskussion im Plenum
- Anwesenheit und Mitarbeit bei Besprechungsterminen mit Lehrenden
Schriftlicher Seminarbeitrag
- Thema und Forschungsfrage sind eigenständig, unter Mithilfe der Lehrenden, zu entwickeln.
- Das Seminarthema muss über wiss. fundierte Sekundärliteratur und einschlägige planerische Methoden erschlossen werden.
Topics and contents of the Getzner/Reinberg seminar group
(the seminar will be partially taught in English and is open also for international Master students)
Topic. Strategic positions of all stakeholders in 'big' urban development projects which may also be subject to contractual agreements. The seminar has a significantly economic focus:
- Effects of land taxes (real estate transactions -, real estate appreciation -, land -, other land-relevant taxes) on the land market (esp. supply, prices).
- Impacts of vacancies - and building land mobilzation taxes on the land market
- Economic conceptualization and position of contractual agreements in urban development
- Assessment and valuation frameworks for improving the informational base for the urban decision makers
Process and structure of the seminar
- Introduction to the seminar topics
- Collection and reference to a joint literature basis
- Individual research questions
- Draft of a seminar paper & presentation in the plenary session
- Presence at guest lectures
Tasks
- Presence in the seminar
- Collaboration and discussion
- Draft of individual seminar papers
- Paper and presentation
