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Landscape and urban planning

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Course Unit Code546-0026/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated3 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
STA35doc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc.
Summary
The aim of the course is to introduce by form of lectures and exercises with spatial differentiation landscape, landscape features and limits of land use. Students will learn in the course of teaching methodologies Landscape Planning, evaluation of the landscape, sustainable development strategies, the legislative framework and methodology of planning in the Czech Republic and Europe. Theoretical knowledge to students acquire practical demonstrations and separate roles during exercise.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Students have a basic outline of the landscape and urban planning. They know the methodology of spatial planning, focusing on legislation and have an overview of terminology sustainable development of the territory and territorial system of ecological stability. Students are able to independently generally suggest, develop and publicly defended the plan territorial system of ecological stability and are able to navigate in the drawings and content of local plans.
Course Contents
1. Landscape – definition, category, concept, division, spatial differentiation, typification, cultural development of the landscape
2. Landscape functions and limits
3. Landscape planning in the Czech Republic and in the world - methods of landscape planning, European Convention on Landscape
4. Spatial planning – objectives, legislation and tasks of spatial planning
5. Territorial planning authorities - participants and their competences
6. Spatial planning tools - spatial planning documents (territorial analytical documents, territorial studies)
7. Territorial planning tools - territorial development policy, principles of territorial development.
8. Spatial planning tools - spacial plan, regulatory plan, spacial study, spacial decision
9. Content of spatial planning documentation - the process of submitting, processing and approving a spatial plan
10. Territorial system of ecological stability - goals, principles, components of the ÚSES
11. Territorial system of ecological stability - ecologically significant segments of the landscape, skeleton of ecological stability
12. Landscaping projects and programs - programs of revitalization, renewal, landscape care
13. Assessment of the landscape character, strategy for sustainable development of the landscape.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
WALDHEIM CH., The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Princeton Arch.Press. 2006. WARD, S. V. Planning and Urban Change. London: SAGE Publications. 2004.
GORDON N. D., McMAHON T. A., FINLAYSON B. L. Stream Hydrology - An Introduction for Ecologist. John Wiley, Sussex, England. 1996.
NEWBOLD Ch., HONNOR J., BUCKLEY K. Nature Conservation and the Management of Drainage Channels, Association of Drainage Autorities, London, 1999.
RATTAN L. Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem, CRC Press. 2000.
MAIER, K. Územní plánování. Praha: FA ČVUT, 2000
SKLENIČKA, P. Základy krajinného plánování. Nakladatelství N. Skleničková, Říčany, 2002
JUST T. a kol. Revitalizace vodního prostředí. AOPK ČR, Praha, 2003
WALDHEIM CH. The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Princeton Arch.Press, 2006
Recommended Reading:
MÍCHAL, I. Ekologická stabilita. Veronica, Brno. 1994.
MADĚRA, P., ZIMOVÁ, E. Metodické postupy projektování lokálního ÚSES. Ústav lesnické botaniky, dendrologie a typologie LDF MZLU v Brně a Löw a spol., Brno. , 2005.
MAIER, K. Hospodaření a rozvoj českých měst 1850–1938. Praha: Academia. 2005.
MAIER, K. Územní plánování. Praha: FA ČVUT. 2000.

CATANESE A.J., SNYDER J.C. Urban Planning. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 2006.
HALL, P. Urban and Regional Planning, Routledge, London 2002
Regeneration of European Sites and Cities in Urban Environments, RESCUE (2005) Development of an Analytical Sustainability
Framework for the Context of Brownfield Regeneration in France, Germany, Poland and the UK http://www.rescue-europe.com/download/reports/1_Analytical%20sustainability%20framework.pdf
Zákon č. 183/2006 Sb., o územním plánování a stavebním řádu (stavební zákon) v platném znění
Vyhláška č. 500/2006 Sb., o územně analytických podkladech, územně plánovací dokumentaci a způsobu evidence územně plánovací činnosti v platném znění
Vyhláška č. 501/2006 Sb., o obecných požadavcích na využívání území v platném znění
ATANESE, A. J. a J. C. SNYDER. Urban Planning. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 2006
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Graded creditGraded credit100 51