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Course, academic year 2015/2016
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Transformation of Contemporary Cities - MZ340P15
Title: Transformace současných měst
Czech title: Transformace současných měst
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2015 to 2018
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: 35
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Additional information: http://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1708
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Luděk Sýkora, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Roman Matoušek, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. Luděk Sýkora, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: prof. RNDr. Luděk Sýkora, Ph.D. (15.02.2008)
Transformations in spatial urban structure of postcommunist cities. Definition of postcommunist city. Conditions of contemporary changes: historically developed structures (socialist city), globalisation (influence on contemporary urban restructuring and examples from cities of Western Europe and North America) and post-communist transformation processes (government directed and spontaneous transformations). Revitalisation, commercialization and expansion of city center. Selective growth and decline in inner city and housing estates areas. Commercial and residential suburbanisation. Comparison of Prague with other Czech cities, Bratislava, Budapest and Warsaw.
Literature - Czech
Last update: prof. RNDr. Luděk Sýkora, Ph.D. (20.02.2017)

Literatura viz sylabus. Literatura v PDF je dostupná v interním systému SIS UK PřF. Publikace přednášejícího většinou ke stažení zde:
http://web.natur.cuni.cz/~sykora/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=2

https://www.natur.cuni.cz/geografie/socialni-geografie-a-regionalni-rozvoj/sykora/publikace

Syllabus -
Last update: JANU (02.10.2003)

1) Postcommunist city and socialist city.

2) Globalisation and its influence on contemporary urban restructuring. Changes in urban spatial structures in cities of Western Europe and North America.

3) Government directed and spontaneous post-communist transformations.

4) Changes in the urban spatial structures of postcommunist cities.

5) Revitalisation, commercialization and expansion of city center.

6) Selective growth and decline in inner city and housing estates areas.

7) Commercial and residential suburbanisation.

8) Processes of socio-spatial differentiation in post-communist cities.

9) Comparison of Prague with other Czech cities, Bratislava, Budapest and Warsaw.

10) Walking tour - gentrification.

11) Bus tour - suburbanisation.

12) Presentation of seminar papers.

 
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