Peter Andreas Gotsch
Peter Andreas Gotsch
peter.a.gotsch@ntnu.no
About
Professor Dr.-Ing. Peter Andreas Gotsch is Professor for Sustainable Urban Development in the Global south in the Program Urban Ecological Planning at NTNU’s Department of Architecture and Planning.
He has extensive experience in integrating Urban Planning and International Cooperation. Likewise, creating synergies through linking research, teaching and practice is central for his work.
Prof. Gotsch graduated from the RWTH Aachen (Germany) in Architecture and from the Columbia University (New York) in Urban Planning. He completed his PhD at the Karlsruher "Institut für Technologie". Before joining NTNU, Peter worked Professor for planning, design and international urbanism at TU Darmstadt.
His research focuses on comparative urban studies: Core areas here have been sustainable urban development, planned cities in the 21 century, public space, the role of new actors, the political economy of planning, cities and migration or post-disaster reconstruction. The inversigation of innovative methods of participatory planning and engagement has been vital in his work. Major milestones of his research career have been the research projects U-CARE – Urban Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (VW Foundation, Germany) and SHAKTI – Sustainable Holistic Approach and Know-How Tailored to India (BMBF, Germany).
Prof. Gotsch authored many publications, policy reports and project evaluations and he was a regular key-note speaker, guest lecturer and host of multiple conferences and events related to planning and urbanization in the global South such as Habitat III. Furtheremore, he regularly served as a senior urban expert and advisor to UN-Habitat, the World Bank, GIZ and Misereor/KZE and to multiple local and national governments. Since many years he is a co-editor of the Trialog-Journal and a member scientific board of the Network Association of European Researchers on Urbanisation in the South (N-AERUS). Most recently he serves as a scienfific advisor and panel member at the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development FORMAS.
(More information is available at www.peter-gotsch.de)
Research
Peter's research focuses on growth dynamics and development strategies of urban agglomerations in the 21st centurycomparative urban studies: Core areas here have been sustainable urban development, planned cities in the 21 century, public space, the role of new actors, the political economy of planning, cities and migration or post-disaster reconstruction. The inversigation of innovative methods of participatory planning and engagement has been vital in his work. Major milestones of his research career have been the research projects U-CARE – Urban Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (VW Foundation, Germany) and SHAKTI – Sustainable Holistic Approach and Know-How Tailored to India (BMBF, Germany).
Most recenly Peter initiated the project PEARLS - Promoting a New Community of Knowledge and Practice on People Centred and Resilient Spaces related to Urban Rivers. (Website coming soon)
PEARLS
Publications
2009
Gotsch, Peter 2010: NeoTowns - Prototypes of corporate Urbanism: Examined on the basis of a new generation of New Towns - by the cases of Bumi Serpong Damai (Jakarta), Navi Mumbai (Mumbai) and Alphaville-Tamboré (São Paulo), Doctoral Dissertation,KiT-Open, Karlsruhe.
2010
Gotsch, Peter 2010: AlphaVille-Tamboré (Brazil) – A NeoTown Between Planning and Self-Organisation; In: International New Town Institute: “New Towns for the 21st Century: The Planned vs. the Unplanned City“; Amsterdam
2012
Gotsch, Peter, Kohte, Susanne 2012: Cyberabad. Landscape of Surprise. In Arch+ 185, Berlin
Gotsch, Peter, Peterek, Michael 2012: Public Space; Trialog 109 - TRIALOG – A Journal for Planning and Building in a Global Context; Frankfurt a.M.
2013
Gotsch, Peter (Ed.) 2013: Private Urbanisation– The City as a Zoo. TRIALOG – A Journal for Planning and Building in a Global Context 4/2011 – 2012. Frankfurt and Berlin.
2014
Gotsch, Peter; Katsaura, Obvious, Ugur, Lauren, Kasang Nicholas 2014. An Urban Approach to Safety and Integrated Urban Development in South Africa: Knowledge and Policy Review. [‘IUDF Urban Safety Chapter’. Policy paper fully peer-reviewed by four independent revievers], Pretoria.
2015
Gotsch, Peter; Andersson, Cecilia, Chong, José; Roji, Ayanda 2015: Exploring the three prongs of Legislation/ Governance, Planning/ Design, and Finance/ Economy towards safe and prosperous parks and public spaces. Three cases from Johannesburg (South Africa). Paper presented and published at the 3rd Future of Places Conference. June 28th to July 1st 2015. Stockholm.
Gotsch, Peter, Roji Ayanda, Calvo, Blanca, and Obregon, Itzel, Towards an urban approach for liveable and safe public spaces and parks for Johannesburg, Paper presented and published at the 3rd Future of Places Conference. June 28th to July 1st 2015. Stockholm.
2016
Gotsch, Peter; d’Auria Viviana: Key-issues related to housing and planning – Governance and Regulation, Planning and Design, Finance and Economics, In: N-AERUS recommendations for the New Urban Agenda. The Cities Alliance UNOPS). Brussels.
2017
Kienast, Gerhard; Gotsch, Peter (eds.): Trialog 127/128: Neighbourhood Development. Trialog: A Journal for Planning and Building in a Global Context. Berlin.
2021
2021
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Gotsch, Peter Andreas.
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Housing and Urbanisation in the Global South versus the Global North.
Movie Screening, Urban October, "Cuidad Infinida" & "A roof over my head", Public movie screening and Discussion with Habitat Norge and BOBY at Cinematheket Trondheim
[Kunstnerisk og museal presentasjon] . Habitat Norge, BoBy, UEP; Trondheim. 2021-10-20 - 2021-10-20.
Other
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Gotsch, Peter Andreas.
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SPAS - Shared Spaces for Innovation.
Web pages (information material)
Teaching
Courses
- AAR5230 - Understanding Urban Ecological Planning - self programmed
- AAR5220 - Urban Contingency Practice and Planning
- AAR5210 - Theories in Urban Ecological Planning
- AAR5270 - Globalisation and Urban Development
- AAR4820 - Methods for Participatory Planning, co-Design and Localizing SDGs
- AAR4525 - Urban Ecological Planning: Project Course
- AAR5390 - Practice Internship in Urban Development
- AAR5400 - M.Sc. Thesis in Urban Ecological Planning
- AAR4874 - Theories and Methods for Master Thesis
- AAR5325 - Project Development and Process
Media
2022
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LectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2022) A case study of comparing. SAMAJ PhD seminar by NTNU and IOE: Conducting case studies . Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University; Centre for Applied Research and Development (CARD). 2022-05-09 - 2022-05-11.
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LectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2022) PEARLS: Promoting a New Community of Knowledge and Practice on People Centred and Resilient Spaces related to Urban Rivers. World Urban Forum 11, Katowice, Transforming our cities for a better urban future . UN-Habitat; Katowice. 2022-06-26 - 2022-06-30.
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Academic lectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2022) Planning Futures - Planners´ Futures. 11th IOE Graduate Conference . Tribhuvan University; Lalitpur. 2022-03-09 - 2022-03-10.
2021
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Academic lectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2021) "Liveable and Safer Public Spaces - Towards World-Wide Better Practices". Face of the City ; Online. 2021-05-04 - 2021-05-04.
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Popular scientific lectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2021) Public Spaces as Anchors in Social Resilience and Climate Action: The Role of Participation. UN-Habitat, Urban Thinkers Campus . UEP (NTNU); GPSP (UN-Habitat); Virtual. 2021-02-18 - 2021-02-18.
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Academic lectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2021) Research Policy Interface: Equity, Services and Economic Development for Cities in the Global South. RC21 Conference . RC21; Online (Amtverp). 2021-07-15 - 2021-07-15.
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LectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2021) Shared Spaces and Innovation. Workshop on Shared Spaces and Innovation . Peter Andreas Gotsch; Trondheim. 2021-10-19 - 2021-10-21.
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LectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2021) The Role of Urban Ecological Planning in Achieving Zero Emissions and Resilient Future. Global Forum on Human Settlements, 16th Annual Session . GFHS; Online (Shanghai). 2021-10-27 - 2021-10-27.
2020
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LectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2020) Comments on Innovative urban finance instruments – creating effective links to planning and policy. World Urban Forum 10 . UN-Habitat; Abu Dhabi. 2020-02-08 - 2020-02-13.
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LectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2020) Connecting regional networks to encourage sustainable urban development across research and policy cultures. Webinar Bridging Research and Policy for Equitable Global Development . Cities Alliance; Online. 2020-02-19 - 2020-02-19.
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Academic lectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2020) Exploring the three prongs of Legislation& Governance, Planning& Design, and Finance & Economy towards safe and prosperous parks and public spaces. Three cases from Johannesburg (South Africa). Critical Review of Sustainable Development Policies and Planning . KU Leuven; Leuven. 2020-05-10 - 2020-05-10.
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Popular scientific lectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2020) Mobilising Research for Global Agendas. World Urban Forum . UN-Habitat; Abu Dhabi. 2020-02-07 - 2020-02-13.
2019
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Academic lectureGotsch, Peter Andreas. (2019) Are open and porous cities what we need? Ten theses on cities and migration. International Forum on Urbanism . IfoU & Tarumanagara University Jakarta; Jakarta. 2019-06-24 - 2019-06-26.