Basic Urban Planning

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Department of Urbanism and Land-use Planning

Synopsis:

Fundamental concepts of the discipline, their interrelationships. Historical development of city building. Contemporary tendencies in urbanism. Fundamentals of composition. Classification of cultural and aesthetic values of environment. Typology of landscapes and the influences of settlements from past to the present. Organizational and spatial urbanistic structure. Functions of the city (characteristics, requirements, consequences), their relationships to the environment.

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none

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Study Objective:

Student can get an overview of the broad field of urban planning

Study materials:

J.Hrůza, J.Zajíc: Development of urban planning I and II, C.T.U., FA, Prague 1996, J.Gehl, L.Gemzoe: New urban spaces, 2002, K.Marhold: Settlements-urban typology I and II, J.Sádlo and col.:Landscape and revolution, K.Lynch:Urban structures and networks, Good city form,1981, P.Halík, P.Kratochvíl, O.Nový: Architecture and city,1996, J.Hrůza: Theory of the City, 1965

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

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