VGU Urban Development Planning Overview over Modules and ...

Technical University Darmstadt www.urban-studies.de
International
Co-operation
and Urban
Development
Course description
1 Course identification
2.2.1
2 Module 2.2
Urban management,
governance &
housing policies
3 Name of course Decentralization and urban management
4 Course instructor Prof. Dr. Yves Cabannes, Development Planning
Unit, University College London (formerly co-ordinator
of the UN urban management office for Latin America)
5 Contents /syllabus Urban management is an integrative, transdisciplinary
field of practice using concepts and techniques
necessary to deliver high order social outcomes in the
face of rapid urbanisation and environmental
challenges. Urban management draws on many
disciplines including economics and finance,
geography, government and political science,
demography and statistics, property, law and
sociology. It includes many professions including
planning, urban and architectural design, landscape,
engineering, land administration, property
development and management, marketing and
community planning.
6 Learning outcomes Students will:
This course addresses the interaction of the roles of
the public and private sectors and communities in
urban management, especially in less industrialized
countries. Political frameworks, government
institutions and structures, private sector and
community roles and participation, decentralisation
and the principle of subsidiarity are addressed.
Transparency of public decision-making, accountability
and probity are examined. The links with strategic
urban planning, sustainable development principles
and participatory decision-making in significant areas
like land management, budgeting and investments in
infrastructure are addressed.
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