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, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany)
Prof. Ia Kupatadze,  Ilia State University, School of Technology, Tbilisi (ISU, Georgia)
Prof. Dmytro Liashenko Taras Shevchenko university of Kyiv, (KNU Ukraine)
Gleb Vitkov, co-founder, CEO PIF (Armenia)
Dr. Yuri Velikodsky, Assosiate Prof. Olena Boiko, National Aviation University, (NAU, Ukraine)
Dr. Olexandra Nenko, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS, Finland)
Dr. Anastasia Malko, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany)

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