After successful completion of the course, students are able to...
- understand urban and regional development as multiscale and uneven processes against the background of globalization, macro-regional cooperation and national policies
- grasp the variety of urban and regional contexts in the Global South
- critically reflect on the role of planners and architects from the Global North in urban and regional development processes of the Global South
- critically discuss the objectives, instruments and practices of local, regional, national and international development cooperation actors and institutions
- urban theories in the context of the Global South
- planning approaches and planning theories for and in the urban contexts of the Global South
- characteristics of urban and regional development in different macro-regions of the Global South
- contemporary development trends in international cities, including the diversity of dynamics in different urban contexts
Students of architecture attending the whole modul "International urban and regional development" will have fixed places. Students of spatial planning should send an email to Alexander Hamedinger for an inscription request.
Please consider the plagiarism guidelines of TU Wien when writing your seminar paper:
Directive concerning the handling of plagiarism (PDF)
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 sustainable urban developmnt of a city or an urban neighbourhood
30% presentation of the poster by groups of 3 students
