Type
Lecture with exercise

Time and Location
Winter semester
Thursdays, 12:15 - 13:45 am
Building 46, Room 267

Please refer to the KIS for exact dates. 

Contact
Prof. Dr. Karina Pallagst

Course description
The range of topics covered in this class and exercise is based on current planning issues in an international context and will include urban shrinkage, inner city development, participatory planning and suburbanization processes in an international comparison. Under the guidance of Prof. Pallagst, students will be able to carry out research-based learning. Selected project examples serve as input to enable students to carry out their own scientific work. Insights into the practice of spatial planning are provided e.g. through video documentation on public participation. Particular emphasis is placed on not presenting students with prefabricated solutions, but rather allowing them to engage in their own analytical reflection within an open learning process.

The class of 2025/26 will concentrate on the US city of Cleveland/Ohio, its processes of shrinkage and the respective strategies which are currently applied.

Materials

• A website will be set up for the course (OLAT).
• Additional teaching material will be handed out in class.

Language
English

Performance record
Seminar paper (graded) 

Contact:

maximilian.schneider(at)rptu.de, uwe.reck(at)rptu.de

The lecture deals with the physical and anthropogeographical structure of the Earth, as well as the resulting living and cultural realities of different continents. In the first half of the event, Dr. Uwe Reck will examine the physical geography of the continents, soil resources, climatic conditions, relief, and vegetation from Antarctica to the deep Amazonian regions. In the second half of the course, building on and drawing back on physical geography, the anthropogeography of the Earth will be examined, divided into cultural regions, and the cultural genesis, economy, and society of the regions will be studied in order to explore the realities of life on the ground and their interconnections with us in Europe. 
This cross-sectional insight into the physical and anthropogeography of the Earth is intended to give students a fundamental understanding of modern interdependence and mutual influence in a globalized world so that they can teach geography in a realistic and geographically comprehensive manner. 

Assessment:

The lecture is concluded with a graded exam (written exam).