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Greenery and Landscape

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Course Unit Code226-0505/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites There are no prerequisites or co-requisites for this course unit
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
SIR002Ing. Petr Šiřina
Summary
The greenery and landscape follow up on the subject of Vegetation in the built-up area and extends education in the field (with emphasis on greenery outside the development of settlements).
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Greenery and a landscape continus lectures of the Vegetation in built-up area and extends an education of the profesion discipline (puts emhasis on greenery in the landscape)
Course Contents
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
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
web: gardenvisit.com
ANNE WHISTON SPIRN Language of Landscape, Yale University Press (May 1, 2000)
web gardenvisit.com
KYSELKA, I. Architektura krajiny a rekreace : architektura a urbanismus krajiny a zeleně. Ostrava : VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava,2007.
BROOKES, J. Mistrovský kurz zahradní architektury. Praha: Euromedia group, 200
Recommended Reading:
BANKS, E. Creating period gardens. Oxford: Phaidon, 1991
SOJKOVÁ, E., GLOSOVÁ, M. KUPKA, J. ŠIŘINA, P. Zeleň městských památkových zón Středočského kraje. Praha: Výzkumný ústav SilvaTaroucy pro krajinu a okrasné zahradnictví, 2014.GEHL, J. Města pro lidi. Praha: Partnerství, o.p.s., 2012.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
ExaminationExamination100 51