Universität Wien

290059 SE Seminar in applied geography, spatial research and spatial planning (2014W)

At the Edge of the City: Suburbia, Zwischenstadt or Smart City?

8.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 01.10. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 08.10. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 15.10. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 22.10. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 29.10. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 05.11. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 12.11. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 19.11. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 26.11. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 03.12. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 10.12. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 17.12. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 07.01. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 14.01. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 21.01. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 28.01. 13:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Subject of the seminar is the investigation of spatial development processes at the edge of cities. After a review of relevant analytical and planning-related concepts like Suburbia, ‘Zwischenstadt’ (‘In-Between-City’), Edge City, Smart City etc. current developments on the outskirts of Vienna will be described, analysed and assessed from a planning point of view.
Language of instruction: German.

Assessment and permitted materials

The assessment of students’ achievements is based on oral presentations and written reports, especially on the final reports.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

By own efforts the students become acquainted with the context of discovery and the context of justification of an empirical research process. This is about operationalizing a problem, planning and conducting empirical work and finally summarizing and presenting the results. Theoretical as well as methodical competences are imparted.

Examination topics

Small groups of students undergo a research process starting with the problem definition and continuing with the theoretical embedding and the empirical work up to the presentation and discussion of results. Thus a variety of methods is deployed. Emphasis is put on an independent elaboration of a self-chosen research question.

Reading list

Fürst, Dietrich und Frank Scholles (Hg.) (2008): Handbuch Theorien und Methoden der Raum- und Umweltplanung. 3. Aufl. Dortmund: Rohn. 656 S.
Hesse, Markus (2012): Suburbaner Raum Annäherungen an Gegenstand, Inhalt und Bedeutungszuweisungen. In: Winfried Schenk u.a. (Hg.): Suburbane Räume als Kulturlandschaften. Hannover: ARL. S. 13-24 = Forsch.- u. Sitzungsberichte d. ARL 236.
Kunzmann, Klaus R. (2010): Metropolitan peripheries: An explorative outline. In: DISP 46 (181), S. 18-31.
Meier-Kruker, Verena und Jürgen Rauh (2005): Arbeitsmethoden der Humangeographie. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchges. 182 S. = Geowissen kompakt.
Reuber, Paul und Carmella Pfaffenbach (2005): Methoden der empirischen Humangeographie. Braunschweig: Westermann. 248 S. = Das Geogr. Seminar. 2. Aufl. 2013. 320 S.

Association in the course directory

(MG-S4-SE) (MG-S5-SE9 (MG-W3-SE) (MR5-SE) (L2-c-zSE)

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