Urban Resilience: Concepts and Challenges for Sustainable Planning Strategies

Climate change, migration, limited natural resources and rising social inequalities are just some of the contemporary threats cities that are currently facing. To become resilient to disruptive events and crises, is a key task in urban planning. What challenges and approaches are there in urban planning to make cities robust and adaptable? With a series of lectures, the course reflected on various topics of urban resilience from an international perspective, such as climate protection and adaptation, governance issues and participation, the treatment of the cultural built heritage, social peace and much more.

Lecturers:

Prof. Dr. Barbara Engel, KIT
Prof. Ia Kupatadze, ISU
Prof. Dmytro Liashenko, KNU
Gleb Vitkov, co-founder, CEO PIF 
Dr. Yuri Velikodsky, NAU
Dr. Olexandra Nenko, TIAS
Dr. Anastasia Malko, KIT

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