Workshop Internationale Sommerakademie Ruhr 2012 The compact region Innovative Planning

Date: 22 September - 6 October 2012 DAAD International Student Excellence Summer Academy, 2012 LODE-PORT -International School of Innovative Approaches in Regeneration Planning and Design of Low Density Urbanized Polycentric Regions in Transformation.- The Department of Urban Design and Land Use Planning together with TU Dortmund University School of Planning and its partners are going to welcome 30 outstanding students from all over the world with a Bachelor‘s or Master‘s degree in civil urban planning, urban design, engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, planning and design, geography or civil engineering. The application process starts in February/March2012. The Academy program offers an integrated introduction to international students into the current regional, urban and landscape planning and governance policy themes structures within the large urbanized region of the Ruhr Area. The main topics deal with urban design and management policy of physical regeneration of urban and suburban areas with differing dynamics of growth and/or shrinking, brownfield regeneration and the integration of landscape into the urban landscape through its activation for new forms of local urban and suburban life within the last three decades. A special emphasis will be put on planning tools and the management of post-industrial transformation. The students will learn about the state of art of the integrative approach of the scientific and analytic background, a stakeholder-oriented communicative planning and the specific practical urban structure analysis. Furthermore, they will gain an impression of tasks of spatial design and will discuss and develop planning principles for sustainable management of Low Density Urbanized Polycentric Regions. For further information and application, please see www.lode-port.de Oldengott, Martina, Prof. Dr. Technische Universität Dortmund SoSe 2012 Polivka, Jan , Dipl.-Ing. Professor Reicher Christa Professor