Learning Goals

The students acquire professional competences based on important theories, models and methods of geographical urban development and research. After successfully completing the module, students will be able to interpret urban spaces worldwide in their historical, societal, political and cultural anchoring and analyse the development paths of structural, functional and institutional change in their dependence on influencing factors and reactions to processes such as globalisation, climate change, digitalisation, migration, demographic and societal change - and in particular understand them in their spatial multi-level context. They have a broad basic knowledge of urban development in Germany, from its origins to the present day, and have dealt in a differentiated manner with current strategies and processes of the transformation of urban spaces within and outside Germany using selected examples. The students can adequately argue for the necessity of context-sensitive urban research.

Contents

• Urbanity, city and space: meanings, concept, levels of scale
• New urban spaces of urban development (e.g. waterfront (re)development, urban renaissance, knowledge-based urban development): Actors, models, strategies, instruments and projects
• Research perspectives and basic scientific theoretical positions in geographical urban research
• Historical urban development and urban planning phases in Germany and international influences
• Theories and models of urban development, approaches and methods of urban differentiation, urban spaces in intercultural comparison
• Megacities, global cities, metropolitan regions
• Urban systems, central city systems and inner-city centres

Teaching methods

Lecture, 1 excursion day (accompanying tutorials), blended learning

Mode of assessment

Exam (60 Min.)

Additional Information

Conditions for granting credit points

Participation in the excursion as a course credit and a passed written examination as an examination credit

Usage of the module
Compulsory module in the B.Sc. degree programme Geography

Stellenwert der Note für die Endnote
The module grade is CP-weighted (5/180) and is included in the final B.Sc. grade