Universität Wien

290136 VO Urban Development in Asia in a Cross-cultural Perspective (2014W)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie

1. Prüfungstermin: DO, 29.01.2015, 15.00-16.30 Uhr, HS III (NIG, Erdgeschoß)
UNIVIS-Anmeldung: 08.01.2015, 18.00, bis 28.01.2015, 08.00 Uhr

2. Prüfungstermin: MI, 18.03.2015, 16.45-18.15 Uhr, HS III (NIG, Erdgeschoß)
UNIVIS-Anmeldung: 01.03.2015, 6.00 Uhr, bis 17.03.2015, 23.00 Uhr

3. Prüfungstermin: DO, 25.06.2015, 09.45-11.15 Uhr, Hörsaal II (NIG Erdgeschoß)
UNIVIS-Anmeldung: 03.06.2015, 17.00 Uhr, bis 24.06.2015, 12.00 Uhr

4. und letzter Prüfungstermin: MI, 21.10.2015, 13.15-14.45 Uhr, Hörsaal 4C
UNIVIS-Anmeldung: 02.10.2105, 8.00 Uhr, bis 20.10.2015, 23.00 Uhr
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Language: German

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  • Thursday 16.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 23.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 30.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 06.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 13.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 20.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 27.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 04.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 11.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 18.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 08.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 15.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 22.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal III NIG Erdgeschoß

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Urban development in Asia within the cultural context of Islam, Hinduism and Confucianism. Results of different believes in historical and actual urban structures.
Object: Understanding cultural/religious differences in design, planning and development of asian urban systems in the Orient/Near East, South- and East Asia.
Islamic-oriental city: models, forms, functions; construction types. Strict spacial segregation of urban functions, of public versus private space. Basars/Suqs as financial and organisatorial centers of oriental cities. Principles of rent capitalism. Urban-rural interweaving. Modernity aspects. Indian Subcontinent: Hinduistic imprint (cosmology,caste system), islamic and colonial infiltrations. Temple towns, hinduistic-islamic syncretism. Persistence and innovation. East Asia: konfucian thinking and urban planning. Cosmology: yin and yang, feng shui-principles.Socialist city planning under Mao. Capitalist forms of planning today. Development of castle towns in Japan and actual city system. Old cities under different cultural perspectives: relics or identity makers within the Cultural Turn of Postmodernism.

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(MG-S4-NPI) (MG-S6-NPI) (L2-b3, L2-b-zLV) (L2-d2, L2-d-zLV)

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