Urban Planning for Sustainability and Development VK

- Modes of Planning conducive of achieving sustainable urban development - in Norway and internationally
- Use and Management of Natural Resources; Water, Energy, Land
- Transport & Land use
- Architecture's contribution towards a sustainable future.
- Housing and settlement planning.
- Agents and institutions and their impact on modes of development

Knowledge:The course is to give insight into what "sustainability" and "development" entails for (urban) development and (urban) planning - in a national and a global perspective. The course will highlight how planning and implementation of physical interventions interact with its social and material context. Skills: The students will through the practical class project and discussions develop the ability to critically analyse the premises on which urban development takes place, the actors and processes that determine these premises and the consequences this has for both the immediate context of the project and overall urban development.

The course is given in cooperation with several departments at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, the Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, and the Faculty of Social Science and Technology Management. Weight is placed on interdisciplinary seminars with introductory speakers from other faculties and from specialists with experience in development-related issues.

A case study on current urban development projects being planned and/or implemented in Trondheim to explore how the concepts of Development and Sustainability is actually practices in the North and how this might relate to, and bear impact on the over arching global development challenges.