Lecture on the fundamentals and current topics of settlement planning and the
Urban planning with exercise on the application of the urban planning and design instrument.
Topics:
- Basics of urban planning and urban design
- Settlement development, urban models, history of urban development
- Cityscape, typologies of open spaces, squares, streets, buildings and neighbourhoods
- Urban development models (historical and current)
- Construction and development planning
- Design, arrangement and design of building masses, uses and open spaces
- Challenges to sustainable settlement planning (through e.g. globalisation, reurbanisation, shrinkage, urban deconstruction, urban redevelopment etc.)
