Spatial Planning

obligatory courses

(in Polish) Celem zająć jest wiedza o szeroko, interdyscyplinarnie pojmowanym środowisku oraz umiejetności korzystania i zarządzania nim

Classroom

The course is an introduction to basic issues of contemporary spatial planning including legislative and administrative framework accepted in Poland. The emphasis is put on the use of ecological knowledge in the processes of spatial planning in order to achieve a balance between land use demands and maintenance of sustainable ecosystems. The main goal is to teach students understanding the role of spatial planners and provide them with basic skills required to interpret correctly environmental data and to formulate planning guidelines.

Spatial planning, management and policy - basic concepts. The evolution of human settlements and cultural landscapes - a brief survey from pre-industrial period up to present. Contemporary approach to spatial planning and its historical backgrounds. Spatial planning as a tool for providing sustainable development. Current legislative and administrative framework for spatial planning in Poland at the local, regional and national levels. An outline of planning law and regulations, and their relation to the European Union directives and policies. Procedures of plan preparation, evaluation and approval; the role of public participation. The scope and format of plan documents. Natural, cultural and socio-economic factors affecting land development, and their integration in the course of planning and decision making processes. A key challenge of achieving a balance between competing land uses and delivering sustainable development. The importance of environmental studies involved in spatial planning; Polish tradition of ecophysiography. Environmental land evaluation - showing opportunities and constraints for particular land uses and identifying ecological indispensables to be strictly protected. The use of the knowledge of ecological relationships in environmental impact assessment and in designing optimal distribution of land uses. Problems of maintenance and protection of natural and cultural heritage and creating healthy environment in rural and urban landscapes. Designing ecological corridors and networks of green spaces. Resolving spatial conflicts between ecosystem sustainability and biodiversity, and land development. Methods and techniques of obtaining suitable environmental information, data handling and interpretation, making ecological maps and formulating planning guidelines.

Course organization. The course consists of lectures, seminars, lab exercises and student ow projects.

Adolf Szponar: Fizjografia urbanistyczna. (Physiography in Urban Planning). PWN Warszawa 2003.

Andrzej Richling, Jerzy Solon: Ekologia krajobrazu. (Landscape Ecology). PWN 2002.

Monica Turner, Robert Gardner, Robert O'Neill: Landscape Ecology. Springer 2001. (ang.)

Richard Forman: Land Mosaics: the ecology of landscapes and regions. Cambridge University Press1995.

Janusz Bogdanowski (red.): Architektura krajobrazu. (Landscape Architecture). PWN 1979.

- understanding of environment and natureal and kulturel space

- knowledge of ideas of planning

Basis for assessment :

- preparation of self-contained project on town and country planning

- final written exam