ESF:MKR_MRMR Urban and Regional Development - Course Information

MKR_MRMR Urban and Regional Development Management

Extent and Intensity

26/0/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Josef Kunc, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Markéta Novotná, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Tonev, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Soňa Raszková (assistant)
Ing. Petr Šašinka, Ph.D. (assistant)

Guaranteed by

doc. RNDr. Josef Kunc, Ph.D.
Department of Regional Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Ing. Iveta Suchomelová Vašíčková
Supplier department: Department of Regional Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration

Timetable

Fri 13. 10. 16:00–19:50 P403, Sat 14. 10. 12:00–15:50 P403, Fri 3. 11. 16:00–19:50 P403, Fri 1. 12. 16:00–19:50 P403, Sat 2. 12. 12:00–15:50 P403

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 66 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 8/66, only registered: 0/66, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/66

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Project management (programme ESF, N-RR)

Course objectives

In the context of historical development, municipalities as a basic part of selfgovernment, fulfil a range of functions nowadays. In the legislative framework they were given a range of competencies, that can be realized in various ways. The course is focused on confrontation of theoretical possibilities and practical ways of their realization, especially in the area of socio-economic and territorial development. In the selected cases, Czech solutions are compared with foreign experience.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Describe and interpret the origin and development of cities and urban systems, explain the basic principles of the functioning of towns, cities and metropolitan areas;
- describe and explain the recent historical development of settlements and cities in the Czech Republic;
- clarify the development trajectories of the pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial city;
- explain the effects of spatial, social and economic changes on the development of towns and cities;
- understand and describe the current trends of sustainable, cultural and creative city;
- understand strategic planning at the level of cities and metropolitan areas;
- explain the basics of European and Czech urban policy;
- interpret the current development of cities in relation to their future.

Syllabus

• 1. Globalization – spatial, social and economic restructuring of cities.
• 2. Basic terms and terms, the city as a pole of development, phases of the development of cities and urban systems.
• 3. Functions of cities. Historical development of municipalities. Size structure of municipalities.
• 4. Modern historical development and the present of settlements and cities in the Czech Republic.
• 5.The rise and fall of the city. History written into the present.
• 6. Industrial and post-industrial city.
• 7. Spatial and socio-economic transformation of cities and metropolitan areas in Central Europe.
• 8. Sustainable city, tourism in the city.
• 9. Transport, and the environment in the city.
• 10. Soatial and strategic planning of cities and metropolitan areas, urbanism, urban development.
• 11. European and Czech urban policy.
• 12. Urban development in historical and contemporary perspective. The future of cities and metropolitan areas.

Literature

recommended literature
• CUDNY, Waldemar and Josef KUNC. Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe. 1st ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2022, 261 pp. Routledge Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Growth, Innovation and Change. ISBN 978-0-367-48447-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003039792. URL info
• VITURKA, Milan, Petr HALÁMEK, Viktorie KLÍMOVÁ, Vilém PAŘIL and Vladimír ŽÍTEK. Regionální rozvoj, politika a správa. Díl 1: Regionální rozvoj (Regional development, policy and administration, Volume 1: Regional development). Brno: ESF MU, 2015, 242 pp. info
• Cities & sovereigntyidentity politics in urban spaces. Edited by Diane E. Davis - Nora Libertun de Duren. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011, vi, 272 p. ISBN 9780253005069. info
• HORSKÁ, Pavla, Eduard MAUR and Jiří MUSIL. Zrod velkoměsta : urbanizace českých zemí a Evropa. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 2002, 352 s. ISBN 8071854093. info

not specified
• HALL, Tim and Heather L. BARRETT. Urban geography. Fifth edition. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018, 383 stran. ISBN 9781138101821. info
• PACIONE, Michael. Urban geography : a global perspective. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2009, xxxi, 703. ISBN 9780415462020. info
• The spaces of the modern city : imaginaries, politics, and everyday life. Edited by Gyan Prakash - Kevin Michael Kruse. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, x, 457. ISBN 9780691133393. info

Teaching methods

Lessons take a form of lectures. Reading of the obligatory literature is expected.

Assessment methods

The course is concluded by the written exam. Student can attend the exam provided that she/he fulfils given condition:
- she/he hands in a seminar work in a given extent and a structure to the obligatory date.
Detailed information concerning the seminar work is available at study materials of the course in the IS MU.
If the student enrolls in the course during his/her trip abroad (e.g., Erasmus), he/she must prepare a seminar paper of the required quality assigned by the teacher and demonstrate knowledge of theoretical contexts in order to sign up for the exam.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: tutoriál 20 hodin.
Credit evaluation note: k=2.

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