Urban Planning for Social Resilience –
Learn to Build Impact from the Ground Up

Urban Planning for Social Resilience – Learn to Build Impact from the Ground Up

Courses

Here, you will find a variety of lectures and units providing theoretical and conceptual foundations on various topics, such as the significance of citizen initiatives for neighborhoods, characteristics of civic engagement, and the importance of participation and co-production for neighborhood and urban planning. Further lectures include social infrastructures, public spaces, planning with people, and the role of the built heritage for public-civic cooperation.

Throughout these units, you will encounter lessons learned that summarize success factors and barriers, exploring how municipal actions can be integrated with citizen initiatives while highlighting the roles of transformative capacity and place- based leadership.

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18 - Transformative Capacity and place-based leadership

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17 - What explains the performance of community-based initiatives?

Explores how community-based initiatives in urban areas transform neighborhoods by fostering social cohesion, leveraging leadership, and mobilizing organizational and socio-political resources for sustainable change.

12 - Planning with People: Stakeholder Simulations

Interactive lecture uses stakeholder simulations from European cities to explore participatory planning, negotiation, conflict, inclusion, and urban resilience.

5 - Co-creation, co-production and public-civic partnerships

4 - Tactical Urbanism as an Approach of Citizens’ Initiatives

Students will learn city performance indicators affecting prosperity and quality of life; resilient neighborhoods withstand, adapt, and recover from shocks.