290194 VO Stadtentwicklung in Asien (2005W)
Stadtentwicklung in Asien im interkulturellen Vergleich
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Mo 10:00-12:00 Hs 4C d. Inst.; Beginn: 10.10.2005
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(Td-S3-IV.g) (Tef-WB3) (Tef-WC2) (Rd-W8) (Ld2, Ld-zLV)
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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.ECTS-Punkte (ECTS credit points): 4