| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers |
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| 051-0701-16L | Systematic Principles of Urban Design: Learn from the European City  | 2 credits | 2G | V. Magnago Lampugnani,
H. Stühlinger |
| Abstract | Urban Ensembles of the Modern City. Strategies for Dealing with the Twentieth-Century City |
| Learning objective | The seminar will focus on case studies in order to reveal strategies for dealing with the modern city. Built urban-development ensembles from the twentieth century will be embedded in their architectural and historical context, studied with an eye to their constitutive elements and discussed in connection with current urban-planning projects. In addition to various forms of methodological engagement with urban contexts, students will experience how the disciplines of urban-planning history and urban development can be considered in a more integrated way. Moreover, they will receive feedback on how to present the result of their analyses in concise, well-structured talks and in drawings. |
| Content | The approach to urban-planning ensembles of the twentieth-century city is characterized by their enormous quantity - which also makes dealing with them more difficult. The building stock dating from this era is immense. There is little discussion currently of how larger spatial contexts - housing estates, neighbourhoods, entire cities - can be not just designed and planed but also continuously developed as overall ensembles. Moreover, strategies, instruments and procedures for dealing with the vestiges of twentieth-century urban planning have yet to be established. In the seminar we will discuss how specific approaches to analysing, assessing and further developing of specific case studies have been formulated and explored recently as well as the extent to which they are experimental and deviate from traditional means for preserving and developing the city. Any discussion of an example of urban planning from the previous century must begin with precise analysis: taking up its original urban-planning principles in their historical dimension and all of the features that affect urban planning. The seminar will emphasise this sort of contextual discussion of modern urban space. |
| Lecture notes | There will be no script handed out. |
| Literature | Literature will be distributed as bibliographical list at the first session. |
| 063-0369-16L | Theory of Urban Design (Thesis Elective)  | 6 credits | 11A | V. Magnago Lampugnani,
H. Stühlinger,
M. Tubbesing |
| Abstract | Fenimine theory of urban design (18th-21st century). The task of this seminar is working with texts about the city written by women. The texts will analysed, compared and examined employing different scientific methods. |
| Learning objective | The main aim of this seminar is learning the scientific handling of theoretical texts on the city. These texts range from pamphlets, to commentaries and literary products. |
| Content | The contents of these elective studies are expected to link to the subject matter of the attended course. |
