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Course Title New Urban Development in Berlin Category Metropolitan Studies & Urban Development Master Session, July 2nd – July 13th 2018 Track D Weekly schedule Class Time Week1 Week 2 Monday: 9 am – 12.30 pm Monday: 9 am – 12.30 pm Tuesday: 9 am – 3 pm Tuesday: 9 am – 3 pm Thursday: 9 am – 3 pm Thursday: 9 am – 3 pm Friday: 9 am – 12.30 pm Friday: 9 am – 12.30 pm Master students and advanced undergraduate students of all subjects with Course Level & an academic background and a strong interest in the various aspects of Target Group Urban Geography, including e.g. city and regional planning, geography, politics, social sciences and economics. This course is taught in English, including readings in English. For the understanding of the texts and the discussions in class a language level Course Language B2 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) is required. ECTS 5 ECTS (40 contact hours) Prof. Dr. Lech Suwala Instructor Dr. Janet Merkel N.N. Course Description & Learning Outcomes For the first time in history over 50% of the world population lives in cities. In Europe and worldwide, cities face various dynamics and challenges which are reshaping their structures and the situation of their inhabitants. This seminar analyses - how cities are effected by various internal and external dynamics (including e.g. migration, growth and decline, social exclusion, globalization) - how they are dealing with these challenges (e.g. through infrastructural planning, growth strategies, and community participation approaches) Required Readings Berlin – in general: Gornig, M. Häussermann, H. (2002): Berlin: Economic and Spatial Change. European Urban and Regional Studies 9:4 331-341. Kulke, E. (2003) Berlin – German capital and global city?, Die Erde, 134, 219– 233. Arandjelovic,B. / Bogunovich, D.(2014): City profile: Berlin Cities, Volume 37, April 2014, Pages 1–26. Course Schedule WEEK 1 – BERLIN: CURRENT DYNAMICS I (LECH SUWALA) Mon, 2nd July 2018 – 10.00am - 12.30pm Lecture: Introduction 10.00-10.30am Presentation 1: Berlin - Towards a global city or just poor and sexy? Kulke, E. (2003) Berlin – German capital and global city?, Die Erde, 134, 219– 233. Krätke, S. (2001). Berlin: Towards a Global City? In: Urban Studies, Vol. 38, No. 10, 1777–1799. Lehrer, U. (2010). Willing the Global City. Berlin's Cultural Strategies of Inter-urban competition after 1989. In: Brenner, N. (ed.): The global cities reader, 332-338. 10.30-11.00am Presentation 2: Creative City Berlin – Superficial or Sustainable? Hesse, M. / Lange, B. (2012) Paradoxes of the Creative City. Contested Territories and Creative Upgrading. The Case of Berlin, Germany In: Erde Band: 143 Heft: 4 S. 351-371 Heebels, B. / van Aalst, I. (2010): Creative Clusters in Berlin: Entrepreneurship and the Quality of Place in Prenzlauer Berg and Kreuzberg. Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography. 92 (4): 347-363 *Lange, B., A. Kalandides, B. Stober and H.A. Mieg (2008) Berlin’s creative industries: governing creativity? Industry and Innovation 15.5, 531–48. 11.00-11.30am Presentation 3: The rise of co-working spaces – Sharing of working next to each other? Capdevila, I. (2013). Knowledge Dynamics in Localized Communities: Coworking Spaces as Microclusters. Available at SSRN 2414121. Moriset, B. (2014). Building new places of the creative economy. The rise of coworking spaces. Suntje, S., Brinks, V. & S. Brinkhoff (2014). Innovation and Creativity Labs in Berlin – Organizing Temporary Spatial Configurations for Innovations Uda, T. (2013). What is Coworking?: A Theoretical Study on the Concept of Coworking. Discussion Paper, Series A, (265), 1-15. 11.30-12.00am Presentation 4: Participation / struggle in Berlin – The Case of Berlin-Media Spree Novy, J., / Colomb, C. (2013): Struggling for the right to the (creative) city in Berlin and Hamburg: New urban social movements, new spaces of hope? International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37, 5, 1816-38. Scharenberg, A. / Bader, I. (2009) Berlin’s waterfront site struggle, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 13:2-3, 325-335, Jauhiainen, J. S. (1995): Waterfront Redevelopment and Urban Policy: The Case of Barcelona, Cardiff and Genoa. European Planning Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 3-23. 12.00-12.30am Presentation 5: Technology Park Berlin-Adlershof Kulke, E. (2008) The technology park Berlin-Adlershof as an example of spatial proximity in regional economic policy In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie B 52 H: 4 193-208. Brinkhoff, S.; Suwala, L.; Kulke, E. (2012): ‘What do you offer?’: interlinkages of universities and high-technology companies in science and technology parks in Berlin and Seville. In: Capello, R., Olechnicka, A. and Gorzelak, G. (ed.): Universities, Cities and Regions. Loci for Knowledge and Innovation Creation. Routledge, London, New York: 121-146 Brinkhoff, S.; Suwala, L.; Kulke, E. (2015): Managing innovation in ‘localities of learning’ in Berlin and Seville. In: Micek, G. (ed.): Understanding innovation in emerging economic spaces. Ashgate, Farnham: Tue, 3rd July 2018 – 9.00am - 3.00pm (Lech Suwala) Bike-Excursion: (Clogged) Lifelines of Berlin I – The Landwehrkanal – green lung or dusty waterway? Meeting point: 9.00am U-Bahn Station Richard- Wagner- Platz (U7) In front of the City hall Charlottenburg. Thu, 5th July 2018 – 9.00am - 3.00pm (Susanne Thomaier) Bike-Excursion: (Clogged) Lifelines of Berlin - Berlin Wall –25 years after, fragmented or integrated? Meeting point: 9.00am S-Bahn Station Berlin- Nordbahnhof (S1, 2, S25)- in front -main entrance upstairs. Fri, 6th July 2018 – 8.30am - 12.00pm (Susanne Thomaier) Excursion: Places in Berlin I - The Technology Park Berlin- Adlershof – innovative or stylized milieu? Meeting point: 8.00am S-Bahn Station Berlin-Adlershof (S45, S46, S8, S85, S9) at the rail track platform WEEK 2 BERLIN: CURRENT DYNAMICS II Monday, 9th July 2018 – 9.00am - 12.30pm (Janet Merkel) Lecture: Introduction: 9.00-10.00am 10.00-10.30am Presentation 6: Dealing with shrinkage in East German Cities. Bernt, M. (2009). Partnerships for demolition: the governance of urban renewal in East Germany’s shrinking cities. In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33.3, 754–769. Delken, E. (2008). Happiness in shrinking cities in Germany. A research note. In: J Happiness Stud (2008) 9:213–218. Journal of Happiness Studies, 9 (2), 213-218, Haase, D. (2008). Urban Ecology of Shrinking Cities: An Unrecognized Opportunity. In: Nature and Culture 3 (1), 1–8. Hollander, J. B. Pallagst, K. Schwarz, T.; Popper, F. J. (2009). Planning Shrinking Cities. Woking paper. 10.30-11.00am Presentation 7: Incorporating diversity or segregation? Migrant communities in Berlin Bockmeyer, J. (2006). Social Cities and Social Inclusion Assessing the Role of Turkish Residents in Building the New Berlin. In: German Politics and Society, Issue 81 Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 2006, S.49-76. Kil, W. / Silver, H. (2006). From Kreuzberg to Marzahn: New Migrant Communities in Berlin. In: German Politics and Society, Issue 81 Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 2006, S.95-121. Fincher, R. / Iveson, K. / Leitner, H. / Preston, V. (2014). Planning in the multicultural city: Celebrating diversity or reinforcing difference? In: Progress in Planning 92 (2014), 1–55. 11.00-11.30pm Presentation 8: Citizens greening the city and blocking new development? Berlin Senate for Urban Development and the Environment (2014): The History of Berlin's Urban Green Space Urban Green Space from 1840 until today, URL: http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/umwelt/stadtgruen/geschichte/index_en.shtml Rosol, M. (2010). Public Participation in Post‐Fordist Urban Green Space Governance: The Case of Community Gardens in Berlin. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(3), 548-563. Bendt, P., Barthel, S., & Colding, J. (2013). Civic greening and environmental learning in public-access community gardens in Berlin. Landscape and Urban Planning, 109(1), 18-30. 11.30am-12.00 Presentation 9: Potsdamer Platz – Berlin’s new Icon or a simple plagiarism of a US-American CBD? Allen, J. (2006). Ambient power: Berlin's Potsdamer Platz and the seductive logic of public spaces. Urban Studies, 43(2), 441- 455. Lehrer, U. (2003): The Spectacularization of the Building Process: Berlin, Potsdamer Platz. Genre Fall- Winter 2003 36(3-4): 383-404. Nowobilska, M.; Zaman, Q. M. (2014): Potsdamer Platz : the reshaping of Berlin: Springer. 12.00-12.30PM Presentation 10: Gentrification in Berlin –the Case of Prenzlauer Berg Papen, U. (2012) Commercial discourses, gentrification and citizens’ protest: The linguistic landscape of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Journal of Sociolinguistics 16/1, 2012: 56–80 Levine, M. A. (2004) „Government policy, the local state, and gentrification: The case of Prenzlauer Berg (Berlin), Germany”, Journal of Urban Affairs Association, Vol. 26, Nr. 1, pp. 89-108. Bernt, M & Holm, A. (2009): Is it, or is not? The conceptualisation of gentrification and displacement and its political implications in the case of Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 13:2-3, 312-324. Tue, 10th July 2018 – 9.00am - 3.00pm (Lech Suwala) Bike-Excursion: (Clogged) Lifelines of Berlin II – Along the River of Panke – between immigrants and the new Mitte Meeting point: 9.00am S-Bahnhof Berlin-Buch (S2). At the rail track platform. Thu, 12th July 2018 – 9.00am - 3.00pm (Janet Merkel) Walking Excursion: Arts, Culture and Creative Industries in Berlin since Reunification – between global aspirations and local needs Meeting point: 9.00am on the steps of Volksbuehne theatre (stop U2 Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz ) Fri, 13th July 2018 – 9.00am - 12.30pm (Janet Merkel) Excursion Places: in Berlin II - Berlin-Kreuzberg – from multicultural neighbourhood to new tech hub? Meeting point: 9.00am U-Bahnhof Schlesisches Tor (U1). At the exit to the street. Assignment & Assessment Components The final grade will be composed of a presentation (20 minutes) with discussion (10 minutes) and active participation in the class discussion. A minimum of 80% class attendance (including the excursions) is required.