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.

Key concepts
Type of lecture
Strategies for civic and urban impact

7 - Planning with People: A Stakeholder Simulation for Resilient Cities

Students explore participatory urban planning through the question of who has the right to shape the city, taking on stakeholder perspectives in real European case studies to practise empathy, negotiation, and collaborative problem-solving through role-play and reflective discussion.

6 - Co-Creation, Co-Production and Community-Driven Neighbourhood Development

Students explore civic engagement, co-creation, and co-production as approaches to building resilient neighbourhoods, analysing stakeholder roles and collaborative strategies through case studies, flipped classroom, and problem-based learning.

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

4 - Tactical Urbanism as an Approach of Citizens’ Initiatives

Students explore tactical urbanism—small-scale, citizen-led urban interventions—through theory and an interactive planning game, assessing its potential and limits for civic engagement and public space transformation.

2 - Intertwined Realities of Sustainable Resilience

Learning fosters deep understanding of environment, community, sustainability, resilience, highlighting societal impacts of planning, design, uncertainty, and cultural intersections.