Transformation of Urban Landscapes

Cities and their planning have always been complex. The era of globalization exposed and brought to the fore this complexity. The reason behind this is the networking of hitherto rather iso­ lated places and systems across scales on the basis of Informa­ tion and Communication Technologies. In such a context, an increasing number of planning problems remain unaffected by «command­and­control» approaches to spatial development. In the field of inward development and urban densification, the coupling of economic, technical, political and social sys­ tems gives rise to the very dynamics which contemporary plan­ ning must deal with.

On the following dates the master class invites specialists from relevant fields for a talk and a public discussion: