Ze0028 Urban geography

Faculty of Education
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Libor Lněnička, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ing. Libor Lněnička, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
Ze0028/01: each even Thursday 12:05–13:45 učebna 5a, L. Lněnička
Ze0028/02: each odd Thursday 12:05–13:45 učebna 5a, L. Lněnička
Prerequisites
Successful ending of course Ze0020 Geography of Population and Settlements and Ze0021 Exercise of the geography of population and settlements.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Main objectives this cource are follows: - to get basic survey of actual conteption in geography of cities; - the consecutive survey and interactive analysis of hometown; - to get basic survey of city development in Czech republic. At the edn of course students should be albe to use the method of urban development in practises and to do city urban plan.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduce to geography of cities. 2. Cities conception, pre-industry city. 3. Cities and industrial revolution. Industry city. 4. Post-industry city. New conception and accesses. 5. Socialistic city. New conception and accesses. 6. Post-socialistic city. Space Transformation. 7. Space structur of cities and her changes 8. The Athen´s Chart document. 9. The European Urban Charter. 10. The Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities.
Literature
    required literature
  • VOTRUBEC, Ctibor. Lidská sídla, jejich typy a rozmístění ve světě. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1980, 393 s. URL info
  • SHORT, John Rennie. Lidská sídla. Translated by Vít Štěpánek. Praha: Nakladatelský dům OP, 1994, 256 s. ISBN 80-85841-14-2. info
  • KUNC, Josef, Václav TOUŠEK, Jiří VYSTOUPIL, Petr DANĚK, Pavel KLAPKA, Ondřej MULÍČEK, Daniel SEIDENGLANZ, Zdeněk SZCZYRBA, Michal VANČURA, Antonín VĚŽNÍK, Milan VITURKA and Petr TONEV. Ekonomická a sociální geografie (Economic and social geography). 1. vydání. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2008, 411 pp. učebnice vysokých škol. ISBN 978-80-7380-114-4. info
  • SÝKORA, Luděk. Suburbanizace a její sociální, ekonomické a ekologické důsledky. Praha: Ústav pro ekopolitiku, 2002, 191 s. ISBN 8090191495. info
    recommended literature
  • MULÍČEK, Ondřej, Luděk SÝKORA, Karel MAIER, Jiří ČTYROKÝ and Daniel FRANKE. Functional Urban Areas in the Czech Republic. 2008. URL info
    not specified
  • MULÍČEK, Ondřej and Luděk SÝKORA. Post-socialist Metropolis: From Compact Mono-centric Cities to Sprawling Poly-centric City Regions. In Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington 2010. 2010. info
Teaching methods
The cours is teaching throught lectures and exercises. Students have semestr project about territorial plan their home city. After preapering students refer about projects in class discusion.
Assessment methods
Semestr paper and his presentation. Written test at the end of semestr.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2014.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
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