Course Details
Tradition and the New Urbanism
Academic Year 2025/26
NGB059 course is part of 2 study plans
NPC-ARS / ARA Winter Semester 2nd year
NPC-ARS / ARP Winter Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Traditional urbanism, cultural landscape and their reflection in the first half of the 20th century - C. Sitte
- 2. Criticism of modernist urban construction and "great destruction of the landscape" - J. Gehl, J. Jacobs
- 3. L. Krier, Prince Charles and Poundbury, European Initiatives (Urban Resistance, INTBAU)
- 4. New urbanism - A. Duany, E. Plater-Zyberk, development in the USA
- 5. Humanistic and holistic concepts - C. Alexander
- 6. Fractals and "biophilia" - traditional form, material and technology as a picture of the physical and biological order of the world - N. Salingaros, E. O. Wilson
- 7. Traditional concept of European city
- 8. Definition of the city according to historians, architects, engineers - permanent discord
- 9. Image of the city of the 21st century
- 10. Futuristic cities across history
- 11. Tower of Babel - critique of contemporary cities
- 12. Czech sorela
- 13. Current trends in urban planning in the Czech Republic
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1.-2. Assignment of a thematic analytical task, explanation of the work system
- 3.-4. Urban survey, research
- 5.-6. Processing of the first group of analyzes according to the current topic of the thesis
- 7.-8. Processing of the 2nd group of analyzes according to the current topic of the thesis
- 9.-11. Consultation of work in progress
- 12.-13. Evaluation of the resulting work