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The seminar examines how urban policy may foster the renewal of different kinds of urban neighbourhood. These may comprise, for example,
- parts of the main or sub-centres of cities that experience an economic downturn,
- other quarters in the central areas of cities, where gentrification is evident,
- deprived neighbourhoods of inner cities,
- brownfield sites envisaged for conversion, or
- residential areas facing a declining population.
We will review what mechanisms are responsible for segregation, which challenges arise for policy from current economic and demographic change and what has been achieved by selected policy measures.
The course will start with an opening session, in which the precise outline of the seminar will be discussed and topics will be assigned. The opening session will include a mini-lecture (around 120 minutes) that introduces and refreshes the background on basic relevant issues concerning urban economic theory, segregation and urban policy.
The main part of the course will comprise a two-day block seminar, during which current topics and methodical approaches in urban science and planning will be in the focus. We will discuss, in particular, what location characteristics can be held responsible for intra-urban differentials and what scope there is for regional and urban policy to overcome undesirable characteristics that may affect specific neighbourhoods. Selected policy measures will be examined in the form of case studies, which will be prepared by participants and discussed during the two-day seminar. The practical relevance of the seminar topics will be demonstrated and reviewed further during a one-day excursion.
In the course, students will
- refresh and become more acquainted with selected topics from urban economics,
- acquire enhanced knowledge about the practical relevance of urban research,
- become acquainted with empirical methods (data acquisition and analysis),
- prepare a text and presentation in individual or group work (about5 pages text and PowerPoint presentation),
- present a topic during the seminar,
- anddefend their reasoning during a discussion.
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