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Principles of Sustainable Urban Development

Type of study MasterFollow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 222-0502/01
Abbreviation ZUR
Course title Principles of Sustainable Urban Development
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Urban Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jan Petrů, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction, basic concepts
2. Legislative documents related to spatial planning
3. Spatial planning documents, spatial development policy, principles of territorial development
4. Territorial Plan, Regulatory Plan, Territorial Decision, Territorial Measure
5. The process of acquiring the TCP
6. Basic functions of the city
7. Basic urban areas from the perspective of the user
8. Sustainable development and its relation to spatial planning
9. Greenery in the city
10. Green in the village and in the open countryside
11. Particularly protected parts of nature
12. Water areas in urban development
13. Possibilities of financing of territorial development, European subsidies
14. Aggregate Repetition, Time Reserve

Literature

BOOTH, N.: Foundations of Landscape Architecture: Integrating Form and Space Using the Language of Site Design. New Jersey: John Wiley & sons, Inc, 2012. ISBN 978-0-470-63505-6 .

DALY, H., E.: Beyond growth: the economics of sustainable development. Boston: Beacon Press, c1996. ISBN 0-8070-4709-0.

WEBER, R., CRANE, R., ed.: The Oxford handbook of urban planning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-023526-0 .

JACOBS, J.: The death and life of great American cities. 50th anniversary ed. New York: Modern Library, 2011. ISBN 978-0-679-64433-0 .

SONG, H., SRINIVASAN R., SOOKOOR T., JESCHKE S., ed.: Smart cities: foundations, principles, and applications. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2017. ISBN 978-1-119-22639-0 .

Advised literature

GEHL, J.: Cities for people. Washington: Island Press, c2010. ISBN 978-1-59726-574-4 .