Urban Management Program - TU Berlin

20/12/2017

This report, conducted by the 2016/17 class of Urban Management in cooperation with the GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, examines strategies of sustainable heritage conservation for the Albanian villages of Vuno and Qeparo.
It is supposed to stimulate and contribute to an emerging discussion in Albania regarding the development of creative, sustainable models for conserving the country’s rich cultural heritage and revitalizing village communities. The intention is twofold. First, by elaborating on general principles of conservation in combination with a broad collection of concrete and successful international case-studies, the aim is to inspire regional stakeholders to learn from elsewhere as they work to define local solutions. Second, a proposal for the historic villages of Vuno and Qeparo - a Village Conservation Model based on the development of a Conservation Lab and dispersed Village Hotel - will be a constructive start to the preservation of the villages of Albania’s southern coastal region.

09/10/2017

Through a competition, the article ‘Urbanisation – Serious shortcomings of India’s ambitious Smart Cities program’ of former UM-student Alokananda Nath was selected for publication in the magazine ‘Development + Cooperation’. This article is based on her Masters thesis at UM:

https://www.dandc.eu/sites/default/files/pdf_files/2017-10-dc.pdf

26/06/2017

Urban Management students explore ways to apply the UN Sustainable Development Goals to their home cities by devising indicators and research methodologies in the City Profiles course. These indicators assess urban issues such as: housing affordability, transportation emission rates and connectivity, inclusivity in the planning process, resilience to natural disasters, amount of green public space per capita, and waste management efficiency. Such a process allows for comparison and collaboration in improving sustainable development in cities worldwide.

Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twaOwPnDmiw&list=PLRgbc1UBV_qVwFjRN9Uvm3l_uMycvYGxb&index=1

Copyright, 2017, Katherine Cashman, Moutasem Al-Khnaifes. More information on the sustainable development goals: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sus...

21/06/2017

At the end of the summer semester, the UM course will organise a public ‚cinema and food-event‘ at ZKU (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin), by curating and showing documentaries on ‘Urban flows’. July 21st 7 pm.

If you want to join for a self-made meal, please would you come between 7 and 7:30 pm and register under:

speisekino(at)zku-berlin.org

The documentaries will start after the meal.

http://www.zku-berlin.org/event/speisekino-moabit-2017-12-food-footage-2/

How are resources coming to our cities and how are they leaving them? A series of documentary films will explore how different resources such as water, energy, waste and minerals are mobilized from different parts of the world and transformed into commodities to sustain contemporary urban life.

22/05/2017

The 2017 study project was on ‘Sustainable Models of Conservation and Revitalization for the Historic Villages of Vuno & Qeparo, in Himara’, Albania. Project partner was the ‘Integrated Sustainable Development of the Southern Coastal Region’ program, implemented by the ‘Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH’ (GIZ) Albania, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

06/02/2017

New Project Report Out Now:

Solid Waste Management in Kosovo. Assessment of a Waste Bank Model in Dardania, Pristina (2017)

The 2015/16 class of Urban Management carried out a case study project in Kosovo. In collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the University of Pristina and the Municipality of Pristina the students worked on the assessment of a waste bank model in Dardania, Pristina. Only eight years after its independence the young country is confronted by a variety of challenges. Providing services, like solid waste management, is one of them. Hence, the publication contains summaries of Kosovo’s development, its legal framework of the waste management sector and focuses on the student’s work of public budget implications, waste data collection, management systems and more.

Please find the whole report on our website:
http://www.urbanmanagement.tu-berlin.de/menue/masters_course_urban_management/student_reports_theses/

10/01/2017

Save the (new) Date!

Monday, February 13th, 6.30 pm.
Hardenbergstrasse 16-18, HBS 002.

Vincent Möller's talk about Community Led Development and Design in Times of Climate Change had to be postponed to Monday, February 13th, 2017.

Vincent Möller is an urban geographer actively working as a consultant on renewable energies and climate change in the South Asian context. Among the many organisations he assists is SPARC, established more than 30 years ago to support the urban poor in India in accessing basic urban services as well as their basic rights. His previous work in this area include a desk officer for energy policy and climate change at Misereor in Germany. He completed his studies in Trier, Utrecht and Berlin.

29/11/2016

The Urban Management Program in cooperation with Habitat Unit cordially invites you to the 1st Urban Talk of the WS 2016/17.

Vincent Möller will talk about Community Led Development and Design in Times of Climate Change.

Vincent Möller is an urban geographer actively working as a consultant on renewable energies and climate change in the South Asian context. Among the many organisations he assists is SPARC, established more than 30 years ago to support the urban poor in India in accessing basic urban services as well as their basic rights. His previous work in this area include a desk officer for energy policy and climate change at Misereor in Germany. He completed his studies in Trier, Utrecht and Berlin.

Monday, December 12th, 6 pm.
Hardenbergstrasse 16-18, HBS 002.

01/11/2016

During the 1st Alumni Conference 'Managing Urban Futures' in May 2016, urban management students produced a video with teachers and alumni of the program. They discussed pertinent challenges for urban management in light of the Habitat III conference ("The New Urban Agenda") and the Sustainable Development Goals.

21/10/2016

The Center for Metropolitan Studies cordially invites you to the

5th Annual Conference of the
DFG International Graduate Research Program Berlin – New York – Toronto “The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the Present”.

This year’s conference theme is „UrbanTopias. Discussing the Challenges of Changing Cities” and will take place from October 27-29 2016 at the Center for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin as well as the Humboldt Universität Berlin.

We invite urban scholars, practitioners and activists to discuss the challenges of changing cities. Throughout global history the dialectic of fear and hope has always been strongest during moments of crisis and transformation whether through political and artistic movements, technological and infrastructural innovations, or societal revolutions.

The conference explores the multiple forces of threats and anxieties, as they shape urban reality. Secondly, it examines practices of resistance and adaptations to urban transformations. Thirdly, the conference investigates different conceptualizations of the urban future, and its particular relationships of time and space. Finally, a roundtable discussion concludes the conference and invites a number of panelists, together with the audience, to debate the future of urban studies.

For more details on the program visit the conference’s homepage: http://urbantopias.metropolitanstudies.de

The conference is free of charge. Registration is not required.

The 5th Annual Conference of the IGK Berlin-New York-Toronto “The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the Present”

21/10/2016

October 2016
The 12th urban management course started in October 2016. The 22 students are from the following countries: Argentina, Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, France, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Syria, Colombia, Russia, Turkey, USA, Uganda.

19/10/2016

October 2016: UM graduates present their work at the Habitat III conference in Quito

Former UM students from Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, Argentina and Chile present and discuss their work in the framework of the conference of UN Habitat in Quito. Examples for their work are transport-related projects on municipal level in Mexico or sanitation projects of the German Agency for International Cooperation. Our graduate from Malaysia, Johary Anuar, in his capacity as Deputy Mayor of Petaling Jaya City Council, will receive the award ‘Earth Hour City Challenge’ for the city of Petaling Jaya City as winner on national level, representing Malaysia.