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Abstract
Lecturers: V. Kaufmann with L. Pattaroni. The course aims to understand the political and social conditions of urban lifestyles and mobilities patterns in order to explore the levers of action available to professionals to support the critical emergence of renewed urban models.
Objective
Taking the form of a course - seminar, the proposed teaching aims to show the interest of methodologies from the social sciences of the city to develop critical urban and territorial design. Planned to last 12 weeks, it proposes to take up each week a theme related to the relation between city, habitat and mobility. Each session is organized in two parts: (1) a presentation by one of the students of an article on the week's theme, followed by a discussion, and (2) a presentation by the teaching team to identify the knowledge and debates of social sciences related to urban and territorial design issues. Two sessions will be devoted to field visits.
Resources
Learning Materials (Links)
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General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- NDS
- Frequency
- Yearly recurring
Examination
- Type
- ungraded semester performance
Registration & Places
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| lecture with exercise |
City, Habitat and Mobility (EPFL)
**Course at EPFL**
|
No time listed | 45 h semesterly |
Offered In
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MAS in Urban and Territorial Design (The MAS in Urban and Territorial Design requires one year of full-time postgraduate study for a 60 ECTS joint degree, the “MAS ETH EPF UTD”. It is taught in English and held at the two Swiss schools, EPFL (Autumn) and ETH Zurich (Spring).)