Czech

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Department of Urban Design (UU)

Graphical presentations and final written work evaluated by graded credit.

Basic knowledge on history of architecture and urban planning.

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Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

- - Attendance to the classes – minimal attendance of 80%.
- - Elaboration and execution of two presentations.
- - Student must individually consult his/her work during the semester – minimum number of consultation sessions is two.
- - Handing in a final written work on a given topic.
- On the basis of fulfilling the above listed requirements a student is evaluated by grade and receives a unit credit.

1. Introductory lecture and distribution of texts and topics
2. Urbanization and urbanism (local topic: Planning the Vienna, Brno and Olomouc in the 19. century)
3. Paris, London and Vienna in the 19. century (local topic: Brno’s city centre redevelopment)
4. Chicago and New York in the 19. century (local topic: Brno – coal, steel, electricity)
5. World expositions and city planning (local topic: Theatre, print and culture – image of the Brno in the 19. century)
6. Technopolis (local topic: Brno – Moravian Manchester)
7. Park and the public (local topic: Brno’s parks and gardens)
8. Citizen and the society (local topic: Brno – the worker and the bourgeoisie, the Czech and the German element)
9. History and monument (local topic: Beginnings of historic preservation in Bohemia and Moravia)
10. Pre-urbanism – progressists (local topic: first attempts of planning and regulation of build environment in Brno)
11. Urbanism – progressists (local topic: Pisárky and Černá Pole – first trends in suburbanization of Brno)
12. Pre-urbanism – culturalists (local topic: Královo Pole and Brno outskirts)
13. Urbanism – culturalists (local topic: Brno – state, church and capital)

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The aim of the seminar is to introduce students to the elementary theories of urban planning and the same time teach them to think critically and argue logically in their own work. The seminar topics are explored from different angles. Students conduct additional research on the given topics and are led to accommodate broader historical, geographical and political context in to it. In their final written works the emphasis is placed on the appropriate form of the text and proper citing of sources.

Besides attendance to the classes, monitored by attendance sheets, students are asked to participate also in individual consultations on work in progress drafts of their presentations and texts. Approximately on week before the actual presentation at the class the student must consult his/her work with the teacher. The final written works will be regularly consulted during the second half of the semester. Students are expected to take active part in classes and in discussions. Absences in classes will be compensated in the form of self-study of the given topic.

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Christiane Crasemann Collins, George R. Collins, Camillo Sitte: The Birth of Modern City Planning, Mineola 2006.
George R. Collins, The Linear City in:_David Lewis_The Pedistrian in the City: Architect's Year Book XI, London 1965.
Lukáš Fasora, Dělník a měšťan: vývoj jejich vzájemných vztahů na příkladu šesti moravských měst 1870–1914, Brno 2010
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, New York 1978
Siegfried Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command, New York 1948
Peter Hall, Planning Europe's Capital Cities: Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Urban Development, Routledge 2003
David Harvey, Paris Capital of Modernity, New York 2003
Pavla Horská, Klasická urbanizace v českých zemích in: Pavla Horská, Eduard Maur, Jiří Musil. Zrod velkoměsta: urbanizace českých zemí a Evropa, Praha 2002, s. 121–219.
Mari Hvattum, Gottfried Semper and the Problem of Historicism, Cambridge, New York 2004
Francoise Choay, The Invention of Historic Monument, New York 2001

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26 hours, compulsory