Urban housing

see moodle: https://edu.epitesz.bme.hu/course/view.php?id=702 The seminar is related to the Urban Housing LAB of the BME Department of Urban Planning and Design: http://urb.bme.hu/urbanhousing/ The objectives of this course are to introduce you to think critically about contemporary mass housing issues and solutions, to have an international comparison about the urban housing situation, and to make understand the complexity of mass housing development. As students arrive from different countries, the seminar uses the opportunity to learn from each other, to discover and compare several case studies. The five 4x45minute-long occasions are differentiated by geopolitical position and key topics: Introduction / urban housing terminology / comparative research method Post-Socialist Central European Countries / large housing estates Western European Countries / contemporary alternative housing solutions Post-Soviet Countries / homeownership USA / affordable housing

weekly

28 h / 14 weeks

2

Continuous control

15

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Faculty of Architecture

Department of Urban Studies