After successful completion of the course, students are able to participate in discussions on sustainable urban development and planning in theory and practice. After having completed the seminar, students have profoundly dealt with debates on sustainability and resilience, urban development and planning.
Students have an insight into core concepts on sustainable urban development and contemporary debates on urban transformation processes.
The seminar focusses on sustainable urban development and local resilience from a theoretical perspective. Students will discuss approaches to urban sustainability challenges as well as just transition, resilience and local adaptation practices in the global south and the global north. Taking a perspective on global trends, conceptual approaches and local practices in Europe and Southeast-Asia, concepts like local adaptive capacities or sharing economies are being elaborated. Students shall process and investigate scientific literature in English and critically approach urban phenomena from an inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional perspective.
Students read scientific papers, elaborate answers to given questions and discuss them in class. They work in small groups to analyse a chosen topic from a theoretical perspective.
The final result is an essay about their chosen topic, which is also presented and discussed in a workshop setting.
Participation in VU 280.813 recommended (same semester)
