Fakultät VI Planen Bauen Umwelt - TU Berlin

Fakultät VI Planen Bauen Umwelt
originally endowed with explicit competences in the field of spatial policy and planning,
and yet has the spatial dimension of EU regulations and policies gained increasing
importance in the course of European integration. Recent trends towards stronger
‘positive integration’ in the EU have even more underlined the meaning of spatial issues as
foundations and conditions for social and economic cohesion. Accordingly, the possible
role of a common spatial policy and planning at the EU level has become a significant
issue in the framework of debates on the reform of EU politics and institutions. Actual
political developments bear witness of this. Because of the very actual character of this
discussion, it appears important to have a historically grounded understanding of the EU’s
concern with spatial policy issues.
At the core of the seminar stands the growing influence of the supra-national level –
in particular, of EU politics and policy – in spatial policy and planning. Two important
assumptions stand behind the approach chosen: first, that the EU and the European
integration process should be understood as an ‘experimental’ institutional framework, as
an emerging construct, as a reality in the making; second, that debates on spatial policy
at the EU level constitute an important part of a change in our understanding of planning.
The more important it is hence to dispose of the knowledge background which is required
in order to critically question both these aspects .
The seminar consists of:
• lectures devoted to introducing the themes of the seminar, possibly including thematic
guest-lectures;
• colloquia, during which selected themes of the seminar are jointly discussed on the
basis of the literature;
• students’ assignments, the subject and progress of which will be presented and
discussed during tutorials.
Lectures will be devoted to highlighting the substantive and procedural influence of
European integration on national-state policies and on regional and ‘local’ planning
practices. The lectures address three main sets of issues:
• development of EU spatial policies: origins and consolidation;
• recent developments of EU spatial policies: EU enlargement and beyond;
• new conceptual frameworks for EU spatial policies: towards a European spatial policy
and planning?
The language of the seminar is German; the scripts of the lectures as well as most of the
suggested literature, however, are in English.
KS Grundlagen der Stadt- und Regionalforschung (MA SRP, SP V)
06361400 L 29, Seminar, 4.0 SWS
Di, wöchentl, 16:00 - 20:00, 23.10.2012 - 12.02.2013, EB 222 , Gualini, Henckel, Roskamm, Walther
Inhalt Das Kernseminar Forschung zielt darauf, die Studierenden systematisch in die
planungswissenschaftliche Forschung einzuführen. Dazu gehören sowohl formale wie
inhaltliche Dimensionen der Forschung. Folgende Aspekte sollen u.a. behandelt werden:
- Rolle der Forschung in der Gesellschaft
- Forschung in den Planungswissenschaften
- Organisation des Forschungsprozesses
- Forschungsmittelgeber
- Anforderungen an Forschungsanträge
- Entwicklung von Fragestellungen
- Relevante Forschungsthemen
- Erstellung von Forschungspapieren
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