The lecture course addresses the transformation of urban landscapes towards sustainable inward development. The course reconnects two complexity approaches in «spatial planning» and «urban sciences» as a basic framework to look at a number of spatial systems considering economic, political, and cultural factors. Focus lies on participation and interaction of students in groups.
Lernziel
- Understand cities as complex adaptive systems - Understand planning in a complex context and planning competitions as decision-making - Seeing cities through big data - Understand (urban) governance as self-organization - Learn basic practical approaches such as Design-Thinking methods for solving problems of inward development
Inhalt
Starting point and red thread of the lecture course is the transformation of urban landscapes as we can see for example across the Swiss Mittelland - but in fact also globally. The lecture course presents a theoretical foundation to see cities as complex systems. On this basis it addresses practical questions as well as the complex interplay of economic, political and spatial systems.
While cities and their planning were always complex, the new era of globalization exposed and brought to the fore this complexity. The reason behind this is the networking of hitherto rather isolated places and systems across scales on the basis of information and communication technologies (ICTs). «Parts» of the world still look pretty much the same but we have networked them and made them strongly interdependent. This networking fuels processes of self-organization. In this view, regions emerge from a multitude of relational networks of varying geographical reach and they display intrinsic timescales at which problems develop. In such a context, an increasing number of planning problems remain unaffected by either «command-and-control» approaches or instruments of spatial development that are one-sidedly infrastructure- or land-use orientated. In fact, they urge for novel, more open and more bottom-up assembling modes of governance and a «smart» focus on how space is actually used. Thus, in order to be effective, spatial planning and governance must be reconceptualised based on a complexity understanding of cities and regions, considering self-organizing and participatory approaches and the increasingly available wealth of data.
Literatur
A reader with original papers will be provided via the Moodle platform.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes
Only for masters students, otherwise a special permit of the lecturer is necessary.
Leistungskontrolle
Information zur Leistungskontrolle (gültig bis die Lerneinheit neu gelesen wird)
Leistungskontrolle als Semesterkurs