This course is unfortunately cancelled for 2012 and will not be offered in 2013. Please check our elaborate post-graduate short course programme for programmes that will run in 2012 and 2013. This course in 'Urban Planning: Strategies for Local Action' will still be available through a tailor made modality.
Urban Planning: from Strategy to Local Action
UPSLA
Rationale of the Training Course
Urban Planning moved away from comprehensive master plans, controlling the spatial development of the entire territory to more flexible strategic plans and visions. Strategic planning includes economic and social dimensions alongside the physical and spatial dimensions of planning, it is focused on creating synergies and aims to build on the potential of existing initiatives and ongoing activities and development in cities. To ensure implementation, urban planners need to translate strategies and visions into a range of concrete action plans, which all need commitment from politicians, funders and other stakeholders. Urban planners need to become urban managers who can formulate strategic spatial plans which are feasible to be implemented even in the challenging circumstances of today such as rapidly growing cities with informal housing, social deprivation and economic decline and changing climatic circumstances.
Target group
Designed specifically for urban planners with at least 3 years of working experience, this course offers understanding on integrating social, economic and environmental development objectives in spatial planning processes, linking strategic planning and budgeting. It introduces concrete tools to build commitment of stakeholders including funders.
Course objectives
By the end of the course, participants have improved their understanding of urban processes and their skills in developing an urban strategic plan which can be translated into local action plans, with funding and commitment.
Methodology
The course combines lectures, exercises, group work and field visits and field work. Participants will work in teams on case studies from cities around the world and will conduct field work in teams in the City of Tirana Albania. Tirana provides exposure to situations common in both transition and developing countries including managing informality, the role of the NGOs in development, integrating knowledge institutes in urban development, the new City Development Strategy, and the role of a dynamic mayor.
Partners
This course will be offered by IHS in collaboration with the Berlage Institute and Co-plan. The Berlage Institute is a post-academic laboratory for design-based research in architecture, urbanism, and other issues related to the built environment. Its postgraduate program and PhD program are open to applications from graduated and experienced architects, urban planners, landscape architects, and other researchers. Complementary to these programs, the Institute also broadens its activities to the professional sector with a series of publications, for which it solicits internal and external collaborators, and a public program of lectures, debates, and symposia.
Co-PLAN in Albania is a very active professional NGO with national and international experience and is active in Albania and Kosovo. It works in the fields of urban, regional, municipal, and environmental management and institutional development.
Lecturers
IHS
Aloysius Bongwa
Forbes Davidson
Jan Fransen
Marijk Huysman
Ogenis Brilhante
Ronald wall
Saskia Ruijsink
Stelios Grafakos
Berlage Institute
Joachim de Clerck
Vedran Mimica
CO-PLAN
Besnik Aliaj
Dritan Shutina
Guest lecturer
Peter Nientied(To be confirmed)
