Urban Management

  • Credits: 6
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2P + 2C
  • Semester: winter
  • Year: 3
  • Faculty of Economics and Finance

Teachers

Included in study programs

Management of Public Policies

Teaching results

The aim of the course is to expand students' knowledge of economic mechanisms of sustainable urban development and the possibilities of influencing them through local politics. Students will gain knowledge of urban management in selected areas (such as land use planning, transport, environment, education, marketing, or population participation), which explain the economic laws of sustainable urban development. Students will be able to use the acquired knowledge to identify problem areas of selected cities as well as to design a framework of measures to address them. After successful completion of the course, students will be able to competently manage problem areas that are associated with sustainable urban development.

Indicative content

The course is taught in the form of lectures and seminars. In the lectures, students will get acquainted with the basics of managing individual areas of sustainable urban development. In the seminars, students will learn to identify the main sectoral problems of selected cities through specific case studies and examples of good practice. At the same time, from the position of public management, they will learn to design a framework of appropriate measures for solving problems using local policy tools. The course contains the following topics:
1. Urban development in the world
2. Economic specialization of cities
3. Spatial planning in cities
4. Transport in cities
5. Environmental policy of cities
6. Marketing in cities
7. Education and accumulation of human capital in cities
8. Creative industries in cities
9. Smart cities
10. Participation of the population in the creation of urban policy
11. Quality of government in cities
12. Final exam

Support literature

Základná literatúra:
1. GLAESER, E. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier. Pan Macmillan, London, 2012 - ISBN: 978-0-330-45807-8.
2. HANNIGAN, J., RICHARDS, G. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies. SAGE Publications Inc., London, 2017 - ISBN: 978-1-4129-1265-5.
Doplnková literatúra:
1. FLORIDA, R. The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It. Oneworld Publications, London, 2017 - ISBN: 978-1-78607-2.
2. JSTOR a ďalšie archívy najaktuálnejších vedeckých článkov a štúdií.

Requirements to complete the course

Individual work, written work
Assessment: 40% of the assessment is from the fulfillment of continuous tasks during the semester in seminars, 60% of the assessment is from the final exam.

Student workload

The total workload for the student is 156 hours. Attendance at lectures is 26 hours, preparation for lectures is 13 hours, preparation for the final exam is 52 hours, participation in seminars is 26 hours, preparation of continuous tasks during the semester is 13 hours, preparation for credit paper is 26 hours.

Date of approval: 10.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 17.02.2022