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

• Engage with strategies and projects on forms of urban-regional and metropolitan development in the global (North-South) context

• Understand how cities cope with challenges of sustainability, smartness and resilience triggered by urban growth from a global perspective

• understanding of forms of sustainable, smart and resilient development for metropoles from a multiscalar perspective

• Discussion of most recent challenges and of strategic approaches of resilient and sustainable urban development in large agglomerations
• critical reflection of planning approaches or of projects in large agglomerations on the background of global challenges 
• elaboration of own ideas and proposals strengthening resilient and smart development on the example of a distinct city or an urban neighbourhood

discussion, group meetings, presentations

20% presence and participation

• presence in plenary 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

10%: elaboration of workplan for own poster

40%: elaboration of a poster well-strucered through the definition of challenges and own proposals for strenghtening resilient and urban developmnt of a city or an urban neighbourhood

30% presentation of the poster by groups of 3 students

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, Introduc-tion to Sustainable Development. Columbia University Press
3. Resilience: Davoudi, S. (2012) Resilience: A bridging concept or a dead end? Planning Theory and Prac-tice, 13 (2) 299-307
4. Urban growth: McGrahanan, Gordon, and George Martine. 2014. ‘Urbanisation and Development: Poli-cy 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: Rout-ledge.
5. 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.