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 Bach/Giffinger/Zhang:

Thema WS 2022: 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/Zhang: 04.10.2022 16:00-18:00 

TUWEL course link: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?id=48946

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

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Group Getzner/Renner (English): The Triumph of the City (?)

Aims and teaching goals of the seminar

In this seminar we will do a deep dive into a book of one of the most influential urban economists at the moments, Edward Glaeser. In his book “The Triumph of the City” he presents insights on why cities are “our greatest invention [that] makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier and happier”. The book is written from a perspective of an urban economist living in New York City, and is thought-provoking in terms of the functions of cities for advancing social, economic and environmental-sustainable development.

Students are expected to critically discuss selected chapters, and are encouraged to reflect on the evidence provided from a spatial and urban planning perspective.

Students will work on their seminar papers throughout the semester, taking Glaeser’s book as a starting point to develop their own research topics.

Potential topics of seminar papers

The seminar has a significantly economic focus:

-       basic concepts of urban economics;

-       economics of density, networks, costs and benefits of urban environments;

-       innovation, economic and social development, differences between urban and rural communities;

-       urban infrastructures, pros and cons of urban life;

-       case studies on urban development, problems and solutions, and planning approaches.

Structure of the seminar

-       Introduction to the seminar topics.

-       Reading of selected chapters of Edward Glaeser’s book “The Triumph of the City” to prepare for a joint discussion of concepts and principles; preparation of a short (2 pages) reflection on the chapters.

-       Individual research questions including basic literature and potential case studies.

-       Draft of a seminar paper & presentation in the plenary session.

-       Final presentation of seminar papers (results, conclusions).

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

TUWEL course link: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?id=49189

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Group Voigt / Wieshofer

TUWEL-Course: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?id=52458

• 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