THE BASICS:
Tuition: No tuition fee for students from IARU universities
Accommodation costs: DKK 2,500
Target audience:
- Experienced students (from 3rd year and upwards) within landscape architecture -, geography -, landscape and urban planning as well as others with an interest in sustainable landscape planning.
Development of Sustainable Periurban Landscapes – New Visions and Strategies
9 – 20 August 2010
University of Copenhagen
This course is a planning course with emphasis upon actions, solutions, and future prospects for sustainable peri-urban development. Peri-urban landscapes are characterised by great heterogeneity and rapid changes of land use, mainly because they are attractive to many functions and permanently under pressure from urban expansion and demands imposed by nearby population concentrations. Thus, peri-urban areas are located in an in-between situation: neither city nor countryside, hosting a range of functions, spanning from agricultural production, forestry and non-rural enterprises to residential and recreational functions. The current search for sustainable urban development as well as adaptations to climate change, have additionally increased the interests in peri-urban functions and land use patterns. The overall subject of the course is sustainable planning for peri-urban landscapes.