Course detail
Problems of Inner Cities
FA-DU6Acad. year: 2022/2023
The subject analyses the role and the significance of urban centre in the framework of the urban organism. The development of functional and spatial changes of urban centres in historical periods, and the views on their concepts and solutions, are documented in detail. Emphasis is put on the specific role of the urban core in relation to the central zone and its spatial delimitation, and on the necessity of the core's gradual regeneration. In concrete examples is analysed the present development of the urban centre, its prospective role in the urban organism and the proposed changes of its functional and spatial organisation.
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Basic literature
Recommended reading
Eisinger, Angelus: Building Zurich: conceptual urbanism. Basel Birkhäuser, 2007 (EN)
English Partnership/The Housing Corporation: Urban Design Compendium. London 2004 (EN)
English Partnership/The Housing Corporation: Urban Design Compendium 2. London 2006 (EN)
Geddes, Patrick: Cities in Evolution. Harper & Row, 1968. (EN)
Gehl, J: Města pro lidi, Nadace partnerství, 2011 (CS)
Gehl, J.: Život mezi budovami, Nadace Partnerství, 2000 (CS)
Journal of Urban Regeneration & Renewal. Henry Stewart Publication (EN)
Journal of Urbanism. International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability (EN)
Kottas, Dimitris: Urban Spaces: squares and plazas. Barcelona, Lins, 2007. (EN)
Krier, L.: Architektura, volba nebo osud, Academia 2001 (CS)
Kumpošt, J.: Brněnské centrum. ÚHA města Brna, 1978 (CS)
Lynch, K.: The Image of The City; Obraz města, BOVA, POLYGON, Praha 2004 (CS)
Philipp Oswalt: Shrinking Cities – Interventions, Hatje Cantz, 2005 (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme ARCHURB Doctoral
specialization URBAN , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
specialization ARCH , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional - Programme ARCHURB Doctoral
specialization URBAN , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
specialization ARCH , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional - Programme ARCHURB Doctoral
branch ARCH , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch ARCH , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch URBAN , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch URBAN , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional - Programme ARCHURB Doctoral
branch URBAN , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch URBAN , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
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2. The urban centre's transformation in history (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modern Age)
3. The urban centre's transformation in history (absolutism, 19th and 20th centuries)
4. Seminar I - Changes of centre as urban part
5. Development of views on the centre's function, concept and solution
6. Definition of the central zone - its relation to the historic core
7. Regeneration of historic urban cores
8. Seminar II - Present state of urban centres - evaluation
9. Functional and organisational arrangement of urban centres - potential development
10. Spatial arrangement of urban centres, scenario of pedestrian movement
11. Benefits and problems of pedestrian zones
12. Seminar III - Urban centres' potential development
13. Recent and prospective trends in solving urban centres