Urban and Regional Economics

spatial development

obligatory courses

Classroom

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with contemporary challenges for sustainable development of cities and city regions, up-to-date tools for management and financing urban development, as well as legislative solutions that help to improve the effectiveness of urbanized areas. The lecture relates to issues such as urban planning, spatial planning, spatial management, urban geography, and links to key documents regulating urban policy.

Classes help to better understand the effective management of a city and urban region, as well as to realize the complexity of factors influencing it. Thanks to this, the student is better prepared to work in the municipal office and is able to propose a path to improve city management by building broadly understood partnerships.

Classes are important for the discipline of socio-economic geography and spatial management.

The classes consist of lectures and exercises.

During the lectures, the following issues are discussed:

- the thresholds theory of B. Malisz, the threshold analysis

- new approaches to housing development

- urban sprawl - causes, course of the process, consequences

- management of metropolitan areas

- sustainable urban development – challenges, tools, approaches

- integrated city management - the role of building partnerships, new models of financing public investments

- revitalization of cities - its essence, problematic areas in cities, legal and organizational issues related to revitalization

- territorial marketing and promotion of cities

- urban policy - current legal status in Poland, EU guidelines regarding the implementation of urban policy, needs in this issue

- problems and development opportunities for small towns in Poland

- urban economics versus location and transport infrastructure

The lecture is complemented by exercises conducted in the form of workshops, during which students learn about the municipality's planning obligations (obligatory and non-obligatory documents) supporting development management. During exercises and at home, they perform tasks based on the analysis of municipal documents.

The student's own contribution to the lectures consists in preparing one paper in a group of several people, reading the recommended literature and preparing for the final test.

The student's own contribution to the exercises consists in preparing one presentation in a group of several people, analyzing municipal documents and performing several tasks on this basis in groups of 2-3 people.

1. Brol R. (red.), Ekonomika i zarządzanie miastem, AE Wrocław, 2004

2. Czornik M., Miasto. Ekonomiczne aspekty funkcjonowania, AE Katowice, 2004

3. Markowski T., Zarządzanie rozwojem miast, PWN, Warszawa, 1999

4. Klasik A., Kuźnik F. (red.), Zarządzanie strategiczne rozwojem lokalnym i regionalnym, AE Katowice, 2001

5. Regulski J., Ekonomika miast, PWE, 1982

6. Jechtuchowicz A., Rzeńcy A. (red.), Współczesne wyzwania miast i regionów, WUŁ, Łódź, 2009

7. Krzysztofek K., Szczepański M., Zrozumieć rozwój. Od społeczeństw tradycyjnych do informacyjnych, Wyd. Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice, 2002

8. Porter M.E., Porter o konkurencji, Wyd. PWE, Warszawa, 2001

9. Strahl D. (red.), Metody oceny rozwoju regionalnego, Wyd. AE Wrocław, 2006

10. Słodczyk J (red.), Rozwój miast i zarządzanie gospodarką miejską, Wyd. UO, Opole, 2004

11. Noworól A., Planowanie rozwoju terytorialnego w skali regionalnej i lokalnej, WUJ, Kraków, 2007

12. Potoczek A., Stępień J., Podstawy strategii rozwoju lokalnego i regionalnego, Wydawnictwo Uczelniane WSG w Bydgoszczy, Bydgoszcz, 2008

13. Szromik A., 2007, Marketing terytorialny. Miasto i region na rynku, Oficyna, Kraków

An important part of the literature are current Internet materials, and municipal documents during the exercises.

After completing the course (lectures, exercises), student:

- defines the basic problems and development trends of contemporary cities and their regions, approaches to development management, and instruments leading to achievement of development goals

- explains the impact of contemporary phenomena taking place in space on costs of development of cities and their regions

- makes critical analysis of different legislative proposals on management of urban space

- evaluates development opportunities of Polish cities and its regions in the context of available management instruments

not applicable