After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand the complex relationships, interdependencies and different structuring measures and methods of the structural, spatial, climatic and infrastructural relationships and dynamics between the city and the hinterland. Different methods and tools will be highlighted and how each can be related to each other in the respective scales of the territory.

We deal with territorial and urban transformation by means of phenomena and concrete questions of urban and settlement planning, respectively production and at the interface between urban as well as suburban context, respectively to rural space. The focus is on the relationship between polycentric urban landscapes and the surrounding cultural and natural landscapes and vice-versa. The relationship between the city and the 'hinterland' or the cultural landscape surrounding it is examined using specific case studies. The disciplines of spatial planning, urban design, neighborhood development and housing, are as relevant here as open space and landscape, as well as their infrastructural development and linkage, which is necessary for a sustainable, resilient and climate-neutral development of city and countryside.

for the semester program see: 260.741 VU Modul Territoriale Transformation

lectures, discussions, independent research

within the module Territorial Transformation