Course General Description

In a six-semester degree course, the students are taught the technical and methodological basic knowledge for the purposeful examination of planning questions, enabling them to apply these knowledge and skills in three study projects as well as in the urban design. The progamme aims at: Mediation of the ability to analyze spatially effective economic, ecological and social processes and their interactions The ability to transform analysis results into viable action plans The central study projects in the bachelor's degree course are intended to enable interdisciplinary and cooperative work The ability to learn, to conduct research, and to develop professional and methodical skills

School General Description

The HafenCity University Hamburg is the University Of The Built Environment And Metropolitan Development (HCU). The education and research at the HCU Hamburg are aimed at contemplating and concretising what the future of metropolitan areas could and should look like. Coping with this future will, however, require a systematic interdisciplinary as well as a transdisciplinary approach. For this reason, the HCU offers the entire range of disciplines required for understanding and designing the urban environment: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Geomatics, Urban Planning Metropolitan Culture Urban Design and Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning (REAP)