K6ET 2200 - Urban Form, Hazards, and Climate Adaptation

Urban form is rarely accidental. It is shaped by many factors, including regulatory frameworks, financial

logics, political choices, and historical contingencies. This workshop examines how urban morphologies are

generated, how they produce differential vulnerability to heat, flooding, and compound hazards, and what

technical, regulatory, and stakeholder instruments exist to act on them. Reading the built environment as

both a physical and political document, the course develops the capacity to understand risk, map competing

stakeholder interests, and navigate the institutional conflicts that make adaptation harder than the science

alone suggests.

3-4 hours session

Grades are divided into three sections: -

• Group work done in the three session in addition to a presentation at the end 40%
• Individual exercise 40%
• Class participation 20%

1-2h per week