Urban Planing
- Faculty
Faculty of Agricultural Science and Landscape Architecture
- Version
Version 1 of 13.08.2025.
- Module identifier
44B0398
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
German
- ECTS credit points and grading
5.0
- Module frequency
only winter term
- Duration
1 semester
- Brief description
Landscape architecture and urban planning are closely linked. In the module, the central principles of urban planning are taught and their significance for landscape architecture is elaborated. Students are enabled to work on the interfaces between landscape architecture and urban planning in practice and to identify and evaluate the interactions between urban planning and landscape architecture.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
- Objectives and guiding principles in urban development and urban planning
- Fundamentals of urban planning design
- Formal and informal planning instruments in urban planning
- Significance of socio-economic conditions and current social developments for urban planning
- Requirements of different uses (residential, commercial, transport, etc.) in urban planning
- Interactions between urban and open space structure
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 30 Lecture - 30 Practice - Lecturer independent learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 30 Work in small groups - 30 Preparation/follow-up for course work - 30 Exam preparation -
- Graded examination
- Written examination or
- Homework / Assignment or
- Oral presentation, with written elaboration or
- oral exam
- Recommended prior knowledge
Basic knowledge from the Landscape Planning module.
- Knowledge Broadening
Students have a broad and integrated knowledge of the central design methods and planning instruments of urban planning.
- Knowledge deepening
Students have an in-depth knowledge of the interactions between urban and open space planning.
- Knowledge Understanding
Students will be able to identify interfaces between urban planning and open space planning in planning projects and develop planning solutions.
- Application and Transfer
Students will be able to analyse the effects of urban planning projects on their own planning projects and develop planning concepts together with urban planners.
- Academic Innovation
Students can identify new interfaces between urban planning and open space planning in planning projects and develop planning solutions for new challenges.
- Communication and Cooperation
Students can exchange ideas with urban planners on an interdisciplinary basis.
- Academic Self-Conception / Professionalism
Students are able to independently deal with urban planning processes and constantly changing framework conditions and assess their significance for their own planning practice.
- Literature
Bott, Grassi (HG.) (2018): Nachhaltige Stadtplanung. München: DETAIL.
Netsch (2015): Stadtplanung. Handbuch und Entwurfshilfe Taschenbuch. Berlin: DOM publishers.
Reicher (2016): St?dtebauliches Entwerfen. Wiesbaden: Springer Vieweg.
- Applicability in study programs
- Open Space Planning
- Open Space Planning B.Eng. (01.09.2025)
- Landscape Development
- Landscape Development B. Eng. (01.09.2025)
- Person responsible for the module
- Schoppengerd, Johanna
- Teachers
- Schoppengerd, Johanna