• Engage with theories on forms of globalization in metropolitan contexts

• Understand how cities cope with challenges triggered by urban growth from a global perspective

• Discuss planning strategies for managing urban growth in highly urbanized regions

• Discuss forms of sustainable development for metropoles from a multiscalar perspective

• Readings and discussions on current issues and approaches to planning and sustainable development in highly urbanized regions

• Substantiated analysis of empirical case study cities/metropoles from three continents - Europe, Asia (Focus China and South Korea) and Latin America
  and corresponding challenges  derived from urban expansion and agglomeration

• Critical reflection on planning strategies of highly urbanized regions in terms of coping with global and local challenges

This seminar will be held in English, the use of German is permitted where necessary.
All information and assignments can be found on TUWEL.

20%: Participation and cooperation

• Attend all 6 sessions
• Read the mandatory literature independently
• Participate in discussions in workshops actively
• Have at least one group meeting with a supervisor
• Elaborate intermediate results for discussions

25%: writing an abstract according to given guidelines

55%: writing a scientific-based Seminar paper in groups of three

Please register here, if you've been accepted within the kick-off event.

Mandatory readings

1. Planning cultures: Friedmann, John. 2011. Insurgencies. Essays in Planning. RTPI Library Series. Abington: Routledge.
2. Sustainable development: Sachs, J.D., 2015. The age of sustainable development. Chapter 1, Introduction to Sustainable Development. Columbia University Press
3. Urban growth: McGrahanan, Gordon, and George Martine. 2014. ‘Urbanisation and Development: Policy Lessons from the BRICS’ Experience’. In Urban Growth in Emerging Economies. Lessons from the BRICS, edited by Gordon McGrahanan and George Martine, 1–14. Routledge Earthscan. London: Routledge.
4. Current urban trends and challenges: ‘Urbanization and Development: Emerging Futures’. 2016. World Cities Report. UN Habitat. http://wcr.unhabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2016/05/WCR-%20Full-Report-2016.pdf.

Further readings

• Herod, Andrew. 2011. Scale. Key Ideas in Geography. New York: Routledge.

More specific literature will be supplied as the course progresses