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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Lehrinhalte und Themenschwerpunkte Gruppe Zhang/Giffinger:

Thema WS 2021: 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 Zhang/Giffinger: 05.10.2021 16:00-18:00 

TUWEL course link: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?idnumber=280839-2021W

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

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• 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 in one of the three groups.

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

Basic knowledge of the legal and sociological principles of spatial planning, land and spatial planning law as well as communal and regional development planning is expected.