The series of lectures held discusses the controversal paths taken within thoses fields of tension, gives answers to the questions about the mixture of strategies and shows crucial public and private mechanisms of visible signs of the influences of society, politics and economy.

Invited speakers from India, Switzerland and Germany discuss the urban territories in their own personal and analytical approaches from the point of view of town building theory and experience.

The focus shift from the politised urbanism of the past thirty years, which is the topic of Anne-Katrin Fenk (Technical University of Berlin) to the territorial strategies of the public hand talked about by Anand Patel (architect, Ahmedabad) further on the the economic mechanisms of the private sector taken into closer look by Susanne Kohte (University of Luzern) to urban transformation in the global context which is going to be discussed by Peter Gotsch (Urban Researcher, Karlsruhe).

BLOCK B
the economic mechanisms of the private sector and the urban transformation in the global context
Susanne Kohte, Peter Gotsch