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The built environment in developing countries is characterized inter alia by rapid growth of towns and cities, restructuring of traditional modes of dwelling and inhabitation, new ways of planning and organizing the built environment, and new processes and production in the building sector. These aspects are embedded in changes in societies, cultures, nations, regions and communities operating on various scale levels from dwellings to entire (city) regions and indeed to the global scale of interactions. Increasingly the complexity of such changes is part of changing perceptions of development, at present oriented towards the desire to achieve more sustainable human settlements development. The course is structured in 16-18 sessions of 1 1/2h each. These sessions cover among others the following topics: 

Introduction, structure, assessment and practicalities; 
Concepts of development as related to human settlements; 
Urbanization and settlement change; 
Urbanization: facts and figures, ways of life, forms; 
Responses to changing human settlements on global and local scale (programmes and projects of the past 4 decades at various scale levels including new approaches related to strategic planning & intervention); 
Evolution in the housing and building sector; 
Habitat Agenda; 
Case studies in selected contexts.

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The built environment in developing countries is characterized inter alia by rapid growth of towns and cities, restructuring of traditional modes of dwelling and inhabitation, new ways of planning and organizing the built environment, and new processes and production in the building sector. These aspects are embedded in changes in societies, cultures, nations, regions and communities operating on various scale levels from dwellings to entire (city) regions and indeed to the global scale of interactions. Increasingly the complexity of such changes is part of changing perceptions of development, at present oriented towards the desire to achieve more sustainable human settlements development. The course is structured in 16-18 sessions of 1 1/2h each. These sessions cover among others the following topics: 
 

• Introduction, structure, assessment and practicalities; 
• Concepts of development as related to human settlements; 
• Urbanization and settlement change; 
• Urbanization: facts and figures, ways of life, forms; 
• Responses to changing human settlements on global and local scale (programmes and projects of the past 4 decades at various scale levels including new approaches related to strategic planning & intervention); 
• Evolution in the housing and building sector; 
• Habitat Agenda; 
• Case studies in selected contexts.

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