| Course Unit Code | 118-0360/01 |
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| Number of ECTS Credits Allocated | 5 ECTS credits |
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| Type of Course Unit * | Compulsory |
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| Level of Course Unit * | First Cycle |
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| Year of Study * | Second Year |
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| Semester when the Course Unit is delivered | Winter Semester |
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
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| Language of Instruction | Czech |
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| Prerequisites and Co-Requisites | Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) | Personal ID | Name |
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| URM003 | Ing. Jaroslav Urminský, Ph.D. |
| Summary |
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| This course focuses upon the theory and practice of approaches towards location decision-making. Spatial structures, their formation and development will be widely discussed as well. While these categories are assessed primarily from the economic perspective, the course deals also with their social and environmental connotations. Apart from the location, spatial arrangement, settlement systems and conceptions of local and regional development will be debated thoroughly. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit |
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Students will be able to:
* identify basic approaches to the location of economic activities
* explain the formation of economic structures
* discuss the development of settlement structures
* analyse location decision-making of enterprises and households
* use the methods typical for location decision-making
* distinguish the approaches toward local and regional development
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| Course Contents |
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1. Location decision-making – three basic approaches and their comparison. Economic entities and the role of state in territorial development.
2. Location factors and their development and importance – specific territorial supply and demand, spatial differentiation of location factors.
3. Transportation costs and their importance – neo-classical approach towards location, spatial monopoly and its strategies.
4. Behavioural conception of location – enterprise organisation and location, types of organisational structures and their location decision-making
5. Structural conception of location – time-space compression and distanciation, changing meaning of the place and space, technological development.
6. Interaction of localities – agglomeration effects and their economic importance, mutual relations of economic entities and creation of spatial structures, mechanisms supporting concentration and dispersion of economic activities
7. Mutual relations of economic entities and formation of spatial structures - von Thünen theory and its importance for further conceptions.
8. Conceptions of geographical structures of the city – location decision-making of households, Alonso´s conception and its comparison with genuine urban structures.
9. Settlement structure and urban systems – central place theory and its contemporary importance, urban systems, evolutionary view on cities.
10. Regions and their differentiation – notion of the region, type, rank/scale and further kinds of regional differentiation, regionalism and regionalisation.
11. Local and regional development – fundamental approaches toward local and regional developments, fundamental approaches toward local and regional policies.
12. Contemporary themes and conceptions of local and regional development – specific features of local and regional development in Central and Eastern Europe.
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| Recommended or Required Reading |
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| Required Reading: |
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LUX, Gábor and Gyula HORVÁTH (eds.). The Routledge Handbook to Regional Development in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge. 2017. 323 s. ISBN 978-1-4724-8571-7.
MAIER, Günther a Franz TÖDTLING. Regionálna a urbanistická ekonomika. 1. díl. Teória lokalizácie a priestorová štruktúra. Bratislava: Elita, 1997. 238 s. ISBN 80-8044-044-1.
MAIER, Günther a Franz TÖDTLING. Regionálna a urbanistická ekonomika. 2 díl. Regionálny rozvoj a regionálna politika. Bratislava: Elita, 1998. 314 s. ISBN 80-8044-049-2. |
LUX, Gábor and Gyula HORVÁTH (eds.). The Routledge Handbook to Regional Development in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge. 2017. 323 s. ISBN 978-1-4724-8571-7.
MAIER, Günther a Franz TÖDTLING. Regionálna a urbanistická ekonomika. 1. díl. Teória lokalizácie a priestorová štruktúra. Bratislava: Elita, 1997. 238 s. ISBN 80-8044-044-1.
MAIER, Günther a Franz TÖDTLING. Regionálna a urbanistická ekonomika. 2 díl. Regionálny rozvoj a regionálna politika. Bratislava: Elita, 1998. 314 s. ISBN 80-8044-049-2. |
| Recommended Reading: |
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MALINOVSKÝ, Jan a Jan SUCHÁČEK. Velký anglicko-český slovník regionálního rozvoje a regionální politiky Evropské unie. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2006. 900 s. ISBN 80-248-1117-0.
SUCHÁČEK, Jan. Transformace v České republice z institucionálně-regionální perspektivy. Praha: Národohospodářský ústav Josefa Hlávky, 2013. 151 s. ISBN 978-80-86729-90-9.
VITURKA, Milan et al. Regionální vyhodnocení kvality podnikatelského prostředí v České republice. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2003. 139 s. ISBN 80-210-3304-5. |
MALINOVSKÝ, Jan a Jan SUCHÁČEK. Velký anglicko-český slovník regionálního rozvoje a regionální politiky Evropské unie. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2006. 900 s. ISBN 80-248-1117-0.
SUCHÁČEK, Jan. Transformace v České republice z institucionálně-regionální perspektivy. Praha: Národohospodářský ústav Josefa Hlávky, 2013. 151 s. ISBN 978-80-86729-90-9.
VITURKA, Milan et al. Regionální vyhodnocení kvality podnikatelského prostředí v České republice. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2003. 139 s. ISBN 80-210-3304-5. |
| Planned learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Lectures, Tutorials |
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| Task Title | Task Type | Maximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks) | Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing |
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| Credit and Examination | Credit and Examination | 100 (100) | 51 |
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| Examination | Examination | 100 | 51 |