UVSRPVR126 Concept of Town and Region Development

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Ing. Ladislav Průša, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Ing. Ladislav Průša, CSc.
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
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
  • http://www.mmr.cz/cs/Podpora-regionu-a-cestovni-ruch/Regionalni-politika. URL info
  • http://www.mmr.cz/cs/Podpora-regionu-a-cestovni-ruch/Regionalni-politika/Koncepce-Strategie. URL info
  • http://www.strukturalni-fondy.cz/cs/Fondy-EU/2014-2020/Dohoda-o-partnerstvi. URL info
  • HRUŠKA, Lubor a kolektiv. Metodika vyhodnocení vlivů politiky územního rozvoje a územně plánovací dokumentace na udržitelný rozvoj území. TAČR, program BETA. Název projektu: Udržitelný rozvoj v územním plánování. Ostrava: PROCES, 2013. URL info
  • HRUŠKA-TVRDÝ, L. Změny ve struktuře osídlení a jejich dopad na rozvoj měst a regionů: Pohled prostorové sociologie s využitím multikriteriálních analýz. Ostrava: ACCENDO, 2012. ISBN 978-80-904810-4-6. info
  • WOKOUN, R., MALINOVSKÝ, J., DAMBORSKÝ, M., BLAŽEK, J. et al. Regionální rozvoj: Východiska regionálního rozvoje, regionální politika, teorie, strategie a programování. Praha, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7201-699-0. info
  • WOKOUN, R., MALINOVSKÝ, J. a kolektiv. Management regionální politiky a reforma veřejné správy. Praha, Linde, 2006. info
    recommended literature
  • JEŽEK, J. a kolektiv. Regionální rozvoj, studijní materiál. Západočeská univerzita Plzeň, 2014. info
  • HRUŠKA, L. a kol. Socioekonomický atlas Moravskoslezského kraje. Ostrava: ACCENDO, 2012. ISBN 978-80-904810-6-0. info
  • BLAŽEK, J., UHLÍŘ, D. Teorie regionálního rozvoje. Nástin, kritika, klasifikace. Praha: Karolinum, 2011. info
  • MALINOVSKÝ, J., SUCHÁČEK, J. Velký anglicko-český slovník regionálního rozvoje a regionální politiky Evropské unie. Ostrava: VŠB-TU, 2006. ISBN 80-248-1117-0. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Přednáška 6 HOD/SEM.
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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023.
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