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Greenery and Landscape

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 226-0505/02
Abbreviation ZaK
Course title Greenery and Landscape
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Architecture
Course coordinator Ing. Petr Šiřina

Subject syllabus

1. Development of garden art from antiquity to the present in the world, composed of landscapes in the Czech lands
2. Basic concepts of landscape creation
3. Special and general nature protection
4. Climate, pedology, geology
5. Orography, phytosociology, biogeography in the region. creation
6. Map and other sources of landscape information
7. Forests in the Czech Republic - typology, categories
8. Landscape greenery and agriculture, KPÚ - public beneficial measures
9. Landscape aspects of transport structures, watercourses (impacts on landscapes, greenery)
10. Territorial system of ecological stability
11. Damage of landscape and environment of human activities - agriculture, industrial production, transport, recreation
12. Recultivation, cultivation and revitalization of devastated landscape
13. Recreational and landscape greenery (economic and non-economic) around settlements
14. Plants and materials in landscape design

E-learning

LMS Moodle: 226-0505/02 Greenery and landscape

Literature

web: gardenvisit.com
ANNE WHISTON SPIRN Language of Landscape, Yale University Press (May 1, 2000)
web gardenvisit.com

Advised literature

BANKS, E. Creating period gardens. Oxford: Phaidon, 1991