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

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 222-0983/02
Abbreviation SPR
Course title City Management, Urban Planning and Urban Development from The Perspective of Geoinformatics
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Urban Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Martin Ferko, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to
- perceive the complex interconnection of natural and social processes and phenomena and be able to describe them as best as possible using existing data sources and analytical methods
- Understand the process of evolution, the layered characteristics of reality, evolutionary structures and nature
duality
- know the nature and possibilities of planning in relation to free will and management of settlements and regions
- be able to use the possibilities of new data sources and GI science for effective management, planning and development
- use their knowledge in research work
- to place knowledge from other parts of the study into the context of (strategic) management and (spatial) planning of cities and regions

Course contents

1. The city as a system, an organism
2. City among other cities
3. City and people
4. City and (spatial) data
5. Complex systems, their manifestations and reactions, life, systems intelligence, information theory, fractals
and fractal dimensions, statistical asymmetry and developmental asymmetry
6. Dissipative structures, linear and nonlinear development, entropy, bifurcation, concentration and thinning, development, developmental structures, their age and stability, irreversibility and determinism
7. Decision making and decision making, decision making processes, length and decision modes
8. Decision-making guidelines, city administration, primary and secondary decision-making
9. Good big city management vs. small
10. Layering of self-government and city administration
11. Development plan, planning and strategy
12. Territorial development strategy as a missing element in Czech spatial planning
13. Crisis management and resilience of the city

Literature

Batty, M., Longley, P. Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function. Massachusets: Elsevier, 1994. 394 p. ISBN 978-0124555709 
Glaeser, Edward L., 2011. Triumph of the city: how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 15-942-0277-X .

Advised literature

West, Geoffrey, 2018. Scale - The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies. New York, Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143110903 .
Harari, Y.N. A Brief History of Humankind. London: Harvill Secker, 2014. 456 p. ISBN 978-1846558238