Description of the seminar by Voigt/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 Witthöft: Thematic Focus "Housing in the Urban development Politics".
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 housing politics in the urban development. Hence, its focus is on analysing and scrutinizing "housing politics" in the D - A - CH - Region.
Start Group Witthöft: Oct 15th, 9 to 11 am in room Seminarraum 268/1
Objectives, seminar group Giffinger/Zhang:
Topic: Understanding and challenges of sustainable urban and regional development
- Development of definitions and strategies for sustainable development
- Reading on questions of spatial development and sustainability as well as analysis of case studies
- Own analysis and evaluation of empirical challenges and strategies
- Critical reflection on the importance of sustainability and related strategies
Programme and examination modalities
- 40% participation (presence, discrete contribution, preparation of interim results for discussion in the plenary session, attendance of at least one meeting appointment)
- 20% Writing an abstract according to given guidelines
- 40% Writing a scientifically profound seminar paper as a group of 3
- Details: see syllabus in "documents"
Kick-Off seminar group Giffinger/Zhang: 10th of October, 12 - 2 pm (SRF library, Augasse 2-6, Area C, 2nd floor)
The Group Giffinger/Zhang will be held in English. The final seminar paper can be written in German or English.
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Lehrinhalte Gruppe Getzner: Ecological economics, and the economic concepts in spatial planning
The seminar deals with the concept of ecological economics as a strand (school) of economics building on the limits to growth for analyzing economic problems and questions. Students will acquire an understanding and knowledge about
- concepts of ecological economics compared to standard (neoclassical) economic theories;
- limits to economic growth (development);
- potential trade-offs among the goals of sustainability;
- the embedding of global ecological problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss in economic theories;
- linkages between spatial (regional, urban) development and ecological economics.
Potential topics of seminar papers
The seminar has a significantly economic focus:
- basic concepts of ecological economics;
- critical focus on spatial development theories and concepts;
- case studies on material and resource (energy) consumption, economic growth, regional competitiveness and social goals, gray energy imports and regional/national greenhouse gases.
The Getzner seminar group is especially open for international students (taught in English).
Start: Wed. 2 October 2019, 4-5 pm, IFIP seminar room
