After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

• critically evaluate strategies, goals, instruments, and projects for sustainable and resilient spatial development,
• to reflect on various planning approaches and recognize current challenges in spatial development and planning activities with using theoretical concepts and models.
• In addition, students can deepen their conmetence to deal with different objectives, concepts, institutional arrangements, instruments, and processes of development planning across disciplines and to be able to analyze and apply them on different scales.
• to grasp the basic theoretical concepts of different disciplines, to apply the different planning approaches in a coordinated and linked way and to reflect them critically.
• to strengthen their ability to collect the spatially relevant knowledge required for specific planning issues from the broad spectrum of theories, strategies and instruments, to network this and to develop their own solution strategies.
• to formulate their own positions in dialogue and to concretize them, with using concrete analysis and spatial planning and to convert them into their own solution approaches, taking current challenges into account. 

In this course, the term "strategy" and "spatial development" are dealt with the background of spatial, social and political-administrative conditions with using specific examples. The conception of strategies, decision-making and participation processes are critically questioned. In addition, there is an in-depth discussion of the challenges, problems, and possible solutions of integrated development planning, which makes use of a wide range of possible plannning instruments. In an action-oriented and practice-oriented approach, there is also a in-depth examination of objectives, concepts, institutional arrangements and processes of integrated development planning, taking into account of various specialist plans on different spatial scales.

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Teaching content group Güntner/Kumnig/Karasz:

At the center of this group is the concept of "left behind" places. Despite or because of its vagueness, it is currently booming in structural policy debates and politics. Using Ternitz in southern Lower Austria as a concrete case study, we will critically examine the discourse around these terms and analyze current policies. Among other things, excursions and independent research on selected topics (such as housing, work, infrastructure and mobility, etc.) are planned. Strategies and measures of the EU, the federal government, the state and the municipality, as well as other actors, such as companies or housing associations, will be discussed. The seminar will take place on Tuesdays from 8h- 10h.

The following TUWEL room has been set up for the seminar: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?id=58958

 Start group Güntner/Kumnig/Karasz: 03.10.2023 8:00 - 10:00

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Lehrinhalte und Themenschwerpunkte Gruppe Bach/Giffinger WS2023/24:

Thema WS 2023: Strategies for Sustainable and Resilient Spatial Development - How can planning support urban resilience from the perspective of a local practice? 

• Development of understandings and dimensions of urban resilience
• Reading on questions of spatial development and urban resilience related strategies and analysis of case studies
• Own analysis of specific problem, challenges and corresponding strategies on urban resilience
• Critical reflection on the importance of sustainability and resilient spatial development and recommendations for better/effective strategies

Start Gruppe Bach/Giffinger:  Wednesday, 5th of October 16:00-18:00 4 to 6 pm, Seminarroom GM 7

The following TUWEL room has been set up for the seminar: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?id=60761 

The group Bach/Giffinger will be held in English. Seminarbeiträge in deutscher Sprache sind auch willkommen.

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Group Getzner/Plank/Strickner (English): The foundational economy: Living well within limits

This seminar group is organized jointly with researchers at the University of Vienna

Aims and teaching goals of the seminar

In this seminar, students will work on tpoics related to the foundational economy (Daseinsvorsorge) as an important ingredient of a social-ecological transformation of the economy and society. If basic needs have to be met, and living well within the planetary boundaries is to be taken seriously, universal basic services need to be organized differently (public, commons) with a focus on the common good (rather than privately maximizing profits and financialization large parts of infrastructures, e.g., in the care sector).

Students are expected to define research questions and scientific themes that touch the role of spatial planning within these fields.

Students will work on their seminar papers (or other adequate research outcomes to be defined) throughout the semester, taking some basic scientific literature as a starting point to develop their own research topics.

Potential topics of seminar papers and contributions

The seminar has an interdisciplinary focus, combining perspectives of economics, planning, social sciences, and infrastructure policy.

Seminar papers will be written according to the IFIP standards of a scientific paper; guidelines can be downloaded here.

TUWEL course link: tba

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Group Tschirk/Voigt/Wieshofer

Der vielfältige Wandel der Landschafts- und Siedlungsräume, dynamische Veränderungen bezogen auf Mobilität, Demografie, Energieversorgung und vor allem Klima erfordern integrierte und anschauliche Konzepte und Strategien für die Transformation und Erneuerung der Räume und eine vorwiegend nach innen zu orientierende Siedlungsentwicklung.

Die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte des Seminars umfassen:

- Theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit den Schlüsselbegriffen: strategische Planung, Nachhaltigkeit und Resilienz
- Praktische Bearbeitung komplexer Planungsprobleme in einem konkreten Forschungslaborraum
- Konzeption von Planungsansätzen, Planungsprozessen und Strategien, Entwicklung von Lösungsansätzen und raumplanerischen Konzepten

Forschungslaborraum ist der Südosten Wiens, perspektivisch im räumlichen Verbund mit Niederösterreich, dem Burgenland und darüber hinaus Ungarn. Die Bearbeitung soll entlang von Bahninfrastrukturkorridoren - als Trägerstrukturen einer nachhaltigen und resilienten Siedlungsentwicklung - erfolgen.

TUWEL-Course: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?id=58658

• thematic input via lecture
• interactive discussions
• exchange of ideas with colleagues and practicioners
• teamwork, presentation and critival reflection
• Seminar paper, presentations, discussions

Please only register for one of the three groups.

comprehensive active participation at workshops and plenum meetings; ownstandig groupwork with corresponding scientific standard