Modul International Urban and Regional Development

Subject of course

1) Discussion and determinants of urban and regional development problems  and disparities of wealth between Northern and Southern hemisphere

2) Development policy aims, strategies, instruments and institutions of local, regional, national and international agents concerning questions on globalisation

3) Description and explanation of the urbanisation processes and their impacts on sustainable development (especially in the larger cities of the global South)

4) DIscussion of the function and morphology of the urbanisation process and of distinct building objects as well as of relevant questions concerning planning at different scale levels

5) Practical challenges, procedural methods and case examples (good practice) of an integrated regional development understanding  

6) Urban and Regional planning in in fast growing urban agglomerations