FVP:UVSRPVN126 Concept of Town and Region Dev - Course Information

UVSRPVN126 Concept of Town and Region Development

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Ing. Karel Hanák (lecturer)
Ing. Karel Hanák (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

Ing. Karel Hanák
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Public Administration and Social Policy (programme FVP, N6731-SPSP)

Course objectives

The course bases on knowledge of the legislative framework consisting of the Municipalities Act (Act No. 128/2000 Coll.) and the Law on Regional Development Support Act (Act No. 248/2000 Coll.) as well as basic knowledge about the reform of public administration in the Czech Republic. The aim of the course is to provide students not only with theoretical basis in regional development, but to show specific examples of meaning, structure and procedure of establishing development programs of city and a region. Emphasis will also be placed on the socio-economic analysis, SWOT, previous experience with development programs, problems of the region and the city. Findings can be useful for practice. The course will give also examples of good practice of selected cities and regions.

Syllabus

• 1st Introduction to the concept of regional policy and territorial development
  2nd Theory of Regional Development I
  3rd Theory of Regional Development II
  4th Present approaches to regional policy
  5th Strategic and spatial planning
  6th Tools of regional development
  7th Programs of regional and urban development - objectives, structure, meaning
  8th Development programs of the region and city - SWOT Analysis
  9th Marketing of cities and regions
  10th Partners and negatives of urban and regional development
  11th Examples of good practice of selected cities and regions
  

Literature

required literature
• SUCHÁČEK, J. Na cestě k nové identitě: Ostrava, Katovice a Košice po roce 1989. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2010. info

recommended literature
• Usnesení vlády České republiky č. 560 ze dne 17.5.2006, Strategie regionálního rozvoje České republiky. info
• STEJSKAL, J., KOVÁRNÍK, J. Regionální politika a její nástroje. Praha: Portál, 2009. info
• RUMPEL, P., KOUTSKÝ, J., SLACH, O. Měkké faktory regionálního rozvoje. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2008. info
• WOKOUN, R. a kol. Regionální rozvoj. Praha: Linde, 2008. info
• SUCHÁČEK, J. Territorial development reconsidered. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2008. info
• KERN, J., MALINOVSKÝ, J., SUCHÁČEK, J. Learning regions in theory and practice. Ostrava: VŠB-TU, 2007. info
• ŠELEŠOVSKÝ, J. a kol. Financování rozvojových strategií územním rozpočtem. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006. info
• Kol. Úvod do regionálních věd a veřejné správy. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2004. info
• WOKOUN, R. Česká regionální politika v období vstupu do Evropské unie. Praha: Oeconomica, 2003. info
• BLAŽEK, J., UHLÍŘ, D. Teorie regionálního rozvoje (nástin, kritika, klasifikace). Praha, 2002. ISBN 80-246-0384-5. info

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

The condition for successful completion of the course will be active searching of information from specified sources and critical evaluation on the seminars. Students will try to select the region or city and design a development program of it, which will be presented at the final seminar. The results of final part will be used for the overall evaluation of the course during an oral exam. There will be given more theoretical applications that correspond with master's degree of difficulty.

• Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2015, recent)
  
• Permalink: https://is.slu.cz/course/fvp/winter2015/UVSRPVN126