Seminar Sport and the City

The role of sports for urban development finds increasingly attention of planners. In this seminar we will take a broader view and discuss the following topics: Informal sports, urban space, and temporary land use (parcours, cross-golf, skating, free-climbing). In recent years we observed that many sport activities do take not place any longer in particular functional environments (sports hall, stadium). Instead, the whole of urban space is turned into a sports facility (city marathon, cycling, nightlining, street ball, etc.). In some European cities, sports facilities for everyday use have been integrated into the urban fabric (for example along the Canal du Martin in Paris) . Do we as planners have to consider this in our work? Can we think of cities or urban areas planned as sport areas, i.e. sites for multiple uses? Certainly we have to distinguish between event-like urban sport such as beach volleyball tournaments in the city centre and broader sport activies for the citizens (open air fitness centres in parks, football fields). Stadiums as drivers for urban regeneration. Many cities use large sport events such as football world championchips or commonwealth games for urban development purposes. Stadiums and other sports facilities. We discuss cases controversial such as St. Denis in Paris to identify the strenghts and weaknesse of this strategy. Sybille Frank,Silke Steets(Eds.) 2010: Stadium Worlds. Football, Space and the Built Environment. Routledge. Andy Thornley2002:Urban Regeneration and Sports Stadia, in:European Planning Studies, Volume 10, Issue 7, October 2002, pages 813-818 Peter Newman,Melanie Tual2002:The Stade de France. The Last Expression of French Centralism?European Planning StudiesVolume 10, Issue 7, October 2002, pages 831-843 Andrew Smith2014:-De-Risking” East London: Olympic Regeneration Planning 2000–2012,European Planning Studies, Volume 22, Issue 9, September 2014, pages 1919-1939 Mark S. Rosentraub2014: Reversing Urban Decline. Why and How Sports, Entertainment, and Culture Turn Cities into Major League Winners, Second Edition CRC Press Fachgebiet Europäische Planungskulturen Oral representations and a written report are obligatory. M.Sc. Spatial Planning (2012): Requirement for passing this course is a proof of sucessful active participation according to §19 MPO. This includes the following demands: active paticipation + term paper 15 pages, graded or term paper 10 pages ungraded. In addition participating students can take a marked exam (partial module exam). The choice of exams (usually oral exam or seminar paper) and their conduct are according to the examination regulations and the module handbook. Technische Universität Dortmund SoSe 2015 Master Raumplanung (2012) Dipl.-Ing. Putlitz Andreas