你将学到什么
Alternative theories in spatial justice, housing provision and management, and urban resilience.
Application of analytical tools and innovative solutions to contemporary urban challenges
Develop a critical perspective about your own urban environment.
New perspectives to understand and analyse the urban challenges of the Global South.
课程概况
Learn about today’s urban challenges focusing on developing countries, referred to as the Global South. We will debate the benefits associated with three different themes, going beyond traditional urban strategies and policies:
1. Spatial justice
Having fair, inclusive and healthy urban contexts is one of the greatest challenges of cities in emerging economies.
2. Housing Provision and Management
Increasing demand in the Global South calls for alternative approaches in housing provision and management.
3. Urban Resilience
Understanding resilience not as a mere struggle for survival, but as an opportunity to build better urban environments.
In the course, we will address questions such as:
Is the ‘just city’ framework applicable to cities with extreme socio-economic inequality?
Can community-led housing initiatives provide effective solutions for households in need?
How can resilience support development instead of perpetuating a disadvantaged condition?
In this architecture and urban planning course, academic urban planning expertise from TU Delft is used to formulate possible answers to these questions, and is applied in a range of challenging case studies from Ghana, Brazil, Malaysia, Chile, Ethiopia, and China, among others. This course offers you a new perspective to understand and analyse the urban challenges of the Global South.
Through a combination of short theoretical lessons, presentation of case studies, testimonies from practitioners and practical assignments you will also learn how to develop a critical perspective about your own urban environment and how to translate this knowledge into analytical tools and innovative urban solutions.
Urban Challenges in Arabic Cities
In addition, the course offers you a module focused on the specific urban challenges of Arabic cities. We will apply the three themes to different cases in this region and explore these with academics and professionals working on the ground.
AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award
At the annual conference of AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) the Architecture MOOC “Rethink the City: New approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges” received the Excellence in Teaching Award 2017.
课程大纲
The course is structured as follows:
Week 1: Welcome and Opening
This week is devoted to introducing the course and getting to know each other. This week also contains the first assignment of the course which aims to introduce yourself and the urban challenge in your own context.
Week 2 to 4: Parallel Modules
During these weeks the content of the 3 modules will be completely open for all students. You can choose in which order to take the modules, but there is a fixed sequence of activities inside each module, consisting of lecture videos, quizzes, assignments and feedback. In order to keep an appropriate workload, the course team suggests to take one module per week.
Module - Spatial Justice
This module will analyse concrete cases of spatial justice and injustice in emerging economies and discuss how contemporary theories apply in the booming metropolises of the Global South.
Content: Six lecture videos, six quizzes, two practical assignments and feedback video.
Module - Housing Provision and Management
This module will discuss the role of the State, the society and the private sector in housing policies, exploring opportunities for ownership and rental models in different contexts.
Module - Urban Resilience
This module will introduce the topic of urban resilience and shed some light on case studies of resilience and risk management that apply alternative approaches to the topic.
Module – Arabic Cities
This module has the purpose to discuss and analyse the urban challenges identified in the previous modules in some selected Arabic cities through the combination of theoretical lectures, case studies and practitioners’ interviews.
Week 5 and 6: Final Assignment and Peer Review
The final assignment is meant for you to develop a critical stance towards the urban challenges in your own context, using the theories and tools presented during the course. You will have one full week (week 5) to prepare your final assignment. In the following week (week 6), each participant that submitted the final assignment will have to peer review the final assignment submissions of 4 fellow course participants.
Hot Topics: in these weeks you will also have access to two additional videos that discuss hot topics in both the Global South and the urban development discourse. This will complement the content of the modules. These videos are completely optional and they won’t have quizzes or any required practical assignment. However, the “Reading the City” video can help you structure the poster for your final assignment; therefore, we strongly recommend you to watch it.
Week 7: Closure
A feedback video for the final assignment and a closure video will be released during this final week.
预备知识
This course is designed for undergraduate and master's level students of architecture, urban planning and disciplines related to urban themes. Nevertheless, anyone interested in debating spatial justice, urban resilience, and housing provision and management are welcome.
No previous knowledge in urban planning or the Global South is required, just your eagerness to learn!
