Course Details

Urban Design and Town Planning

Academic Year 2025/26

BGB001 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

Ing. arch. Tomáš Pavlovský, Ph.D.

Institute

Link

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289765

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Historical development of urban planning I.
  • 2. Historical development of urban planning II.
  • 3. Modern urban planning and temporary urban design trends.
  • 4. Settlements (typology, configuration and development).
  • 5. Functional urban systems – residential and industrial areas.
  • 6. Functional urban systems – traffic and technical infrastructure.
  • 7. Functional landscape systems.
  • 8. Rural settlement and landscape.
  • 9. Social base of an urban development – ecological, social and cultural.
  • 10. Social base of an urban development – traffic and technical infrastructure.
  • 11. Urban development, urban design concept.
  • 12. Urban design.
  • 13. Landscape planning and supervision.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.–2. Introduction of the requirements. Working approach. Presentation of topics.
  • 3.–4. Analysis of planning documentation, tutorials task.
  • 5.–6. An analysis of the city quarters, tutorials task.
  • 7.–8. Analysis of selected development areas, tutorial task.
  • 9.–10. Consultation.
  • 11. Review of work.