Course detail

Urban Planning

FA-USO-KEAcad. year: 2026/2027

The course is a profile theoretical course on urban design. It presents settlements and urban structure of towns and villages in a comprehensive way. It focuses on concepts and rules of urban structure arrangement and development trends, as well as on the issue of coordination and management of territorial development.

The course consists of three blocks:
1. Towns and Cities,
2. Transporting Planning,
3. Technical Infrastructure,
4. Spatial Planning.

The course develops and complements the information that students acquired in the previous urban design courses and is directly connected to AT3 Urban Design Studio as students further develop the concept elaborated in AT3 Town and Place, which becomes the concept for a regulation plan that will be elaborated in the seminars of this course Spatial Planning.

The content of the course is coordinated with the parallel course Basics of Geoecology, so that students acquire comprehensive knowledge about settling and landscape.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. arch. Gabriel Kopáčik, Dr.

Department

Department of Urban Design (UU)

Entry knowledge

AT3-AE Ateliér město a místo, USM-KE Stavba měst

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Classification:
continuous tests: 20%
seminar papers: 50%
final colloquium: 30%

Aims

To introduce students to the principles and development trends in arrangement of settlements and urban structure of cities and villages, to the transportation and technical infrastructure, water and waste management, and to the instruments of spatial planning.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

HALL, Peter a Mark TEWDWR-JONES. Urban and regional planning. Sixth edition. NY: Routledge, 2020. ISBN 978-0815365273. (EN)
JACOBS, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage, 1992. ISBN: 978-0679741954. (EN)
JACOBS, Jane. The Economy of Cities. Vintage, 1970. ISBN: 978-0394705842. (EN)
LARICE, Michael a Elizabeth MACDONALD. The urban design reader. Second edition. New York: Routledge, 2012. ISBN 978-041-5668-088. (EN)
Levy, John M. Contemporary Urban Planning. 12th edition. Routledge 2024 (EN)