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The European Union is heavily investing in an "urban transformation" and pursues an integrated urban perspective. The New Leipzig Charter (2020) stresses the importance of integrated urban strategies for today's urban challenges and goals. The charter stresses the importance of urban dimensions such as the "green", "productive" and "just" city. However, upon closer inspection, broad EU policies and initiatives are defined by historical, cultural, socio-economic and environmental aspects (among others). How do integrated urban policies relate to broad EU policies, for example, the ambitions of the European Green Deal (2019)? Integrated urban policies and their role in EU policy is an important subject to debate; can integrated urban strategies support EU goals? If so, how?
The seminar will present current trends of EU level integrated urban policy. Key questions of the seminar include: What is "integrated urban policy" on the EU level and what characteristics does it have? What urban issues are identified/prioritized on the EU level? What role can scientific analysis have, for example, in explaining complexity? The seminar will start with a presentation of research results and experience on the pan-european environmental issue and urban planning instruments related to "land consumption" and "densification". With the help of the class, the topical variety of the seminar will then be expanded to explore further the integrated nature of urban challenges in detail. Literature will be used to evaluate integrated urban strategies from various perspectives. Group research will contextualize the issues and the role of policy to address these. Objectives of the seminar include: Develop a basic understanding of EU level integrated urban policy including current debates, develop a research question pertaining to policy, as well as apply a research method in a group setting to pursue the aforementioned research question. Ultimately, students will be able to actively contribute to future and creative urban visions and strategies.
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