After successful completion of the course, students are able to describe the essential interrelationships in settlement development and the corresponding spatial control options; to define the instruments of supra-local and local spatial planning and to identify the essential planning and decision-makers in settlement development as well as to explain requirements for participative planning processes; to contribute to current planning-related discussions (e. g. urban sprawl defence, building land mobilisation, climate change, natural hazard management, shopping centres).
Introduction to spatial planning (basic functions of existence as object of spatial planning); tasks of spatial planning (basic features of historical development); spatial conditions and development trends (population and settlement development, economic development, traffic and transport, landscape and natural resources). Challenges to spatial planning today (regional and national competitiveness, social diversity and solidarity, climate change, adaptation and resource efficiency, cooperative action structures); planning system in Austria (planning levels, competences and instruments).
Explanation of relevant planning regulations, especially constitutional regulations, legal and administrative goals, instruments and procedures.
Written exam
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We would like to draw your attention to an important passage in the study law regulations of the TU, which have been in force since 05.02.2014:
Deregistration from exams
§ 18a. (1) Students are entitled to deregister from the examination verbally, in written form or electronically with the examiner or the Dean of Studies up to two working days before the day of the examination.
(2) If students do not show up for an examination without having deregistered in accordance with section 1, the Dean of Studies is entitled to exclude these students from registering for the same examination for a period of eight weeks on the recommendation of the examiner. The period of suspension begins on the day of the examination for which the student has failed to appear despite registering. The students concerned are to be informed of the suspension in an appropriate manner.
(3) If the student can prove that he/she was hindered from deregistering in time according to section 1 by a valid reason (e.g. accident) or another reason worthy of particular consideration, the suspension shall be removed.
