Course detail

Cities and Settlements

FA-U23Acad. year: 2022/2023

Contemporary town and his characteristic, urban design function cities, resident development. Delimitation, make - up and usage territory resident units.Urbanization, settlement and regional development. Developing trends development cities.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

1

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Department of Urban Design (UU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Detailed knowledge of contemporary urban planning problems and prospective urban development trends.

Prerequisites

Theoretical and practical knowledge of problems and ability to solve them, needed for architectural design activity.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Written exam. Final classification shall include 1/3 seminar evaluation, 2/3 written exam classification. In both parts it is necessary to gain more than one half of points otherwise the exam is not convenient. Results of control tests (max. 5 points) are bonus that is added to gained amount of points (up to 100 points).

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students are familiarized with urbanistic building typology, devices and housing elements, commercial and non-commercial equipment, technical facilities and transportation. During lessons and seminars students also acquire basics of urbanistic designing and are prepared for managing basic urbanistic studio.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Concept of each task and final study turn in. 80% of practice teaching is mandatory, 20% is not necessary to substitute. Control tests during lessons.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Alexy, T.: Rekonštrukcia sídiel, SVŠT Bratislava, 1982 (SK)
Doutlík, L.: Sídelní struktury, Urbanistická typologie, ČVUT, Praha, 1992 (CS)
Internet: www.mmr.cz, www.uur.cz (CS)
Jírava, P.; Slabý, P. ; Feitl, M.: Městské komunikace II., ČVUT, Praha, 1993 (CS)
Knop, A. - Krampl, B.: Zásady a pravidla územního plánování, VÚVA 1984 (CS)
Koutný, J.: Soudobá města a osídlení, presentační a dokumentační materiály, 2004 (CS)
Maier, K.: Urbanistická čítanka, ČKA, Praha 2002 (CS)
Marhold, K.: Sídla. Urbanistická typologie II. ČVUT, Praha, 1991 (CS)
Pavlíček, J.: Městské komunikace, VUT Brno 1988 (CS)
Prinz, D. Städtebau, band 1,2, Stuttgart 1987 (DE)
Vyhlášky MMR ČR (CS)

Recommended reading

Boeminghaus, D.: Fusgängerzonen, 1992 (DE)
Brath, J.: Pešie zóny v meste, 1987 (SK)
Neufert, J.: Navrhování staveb, Praha 1995 (CS)
Proměny městských center, konference – Asociace pro urbanismus, Čelákovice 1997 (CS)
Reichert, M.: Centra evropských měst, SURPMO Praha 1975 (CS)
Riedl, D.: Rekonstrukce historických jader měst, VUT Brno, 1987 (CS)
Short, J.R.: Lidská sídla, Nakladatelský dům OP, Praha, 1994 (CS)
Sitte, C.: Stavba měst podle uměleckých zásad, 1995 (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme ARCHURB Bachelor's

    branch ARCH , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch ARCH , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

12 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Preconditions of urbanistic development of chosen city (research and analysis of chosen smaller city (or self-contained city part), sketching main principles of its urbanistic development).
- analysis of broad relations
- art-space analysis ; location image
- functional analysis
- operational analysis
- limits of usage and problems with area development
- development preconditions
- main principles of urbanistic development

Seminar

12 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer