City Management, Urban Planning and Urban Development from The Perspective of Geoinformatics

The course is focused on the development of complex systems, especially cities and regions, the interconnection of natural and social characteristics of development. Attention is paid to dissipative and evolutionary structures, linear and nonlinear evolution, complexity, natural duality, the relationship of chance and decision making. All this as the basis and essence of management and planning in complex systems with practical examples at the level of cities and regions. An integral part of the whole course is the connection to the application of GI science tools in the evaluation of these complex systems, especially with the use of increasingly available new sources of spatial data in relation to the concept of Smart City / Smart Region.