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HafenCity University Hamburg
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The current and future social challenges in cities and metropolitan regions require new scientific perspectives. As a university for architecture and metropolitan development, the HCU has a unique profile: it unites all aspects of construction and urban development in design, engineering and natural sciences as well as the humanities and social sciences under one roof. The academics at HCU Hamburg have a high level of expertise in their own specialist areas, while at the same time systematically crossing disciplinary boundaries and entering into a wide range of collaborations. Expertise in one’s own discipline combined with openness to neighbouring disciplines is already taught during the degree course. In this way, HCU Hamburg develops innovative solutions in research and teaching to ensure that our built environment develops in a liveable and sustainable way today and in the future.
UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE &
METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT
The HCU therefore offers the entire range of disciplines related to the understanding and design of the urban environment: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Urban Planning, each as a Bachelor’s degree programme with a consecutive Master’s programme. Culture of the Metropolis as a Bachelor’s degree programme. Urban Design and Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning (REAP) as interdisciplinary Master’s programmes. Interdisciplinary study programmes complement the curriculum of the individual HCU study programmes.
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Henning-Voscherau-Platz 1
20457 Hamburg
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Together with the HCU, we want to tackle the challenges of social life in urban areas: The implementation of projects relating to sustainable and smart urban development is just as much on the ‘plan’ here as the inclusion of actual city residents through citizen science projects. In addition, the HCU’s CityScienceLab enables research into urban development in the context of digitalisation – this opens up countless opportunities to initiate collaborations and try out new approaches together.