Objectives and competences
Students:
- understand the structure of settlements,
- get acquainted to the modern processes in settlements and urban areas,
- get qualification for a morphological, social geographical and economic geographical analysis and geographical intepretation of the settlements structure.
Content (Syllabus outline)
1. Definition of the term settlement, town and settlement pattern
2. Urbanisation and urbanity
3. City region
4. Morphology of settlements
5. Economic functions of settlements
6. Social structure
7. Phisiognomy of settlements
8. Nature and the city
9. Climate neutral settlements
Learning and teaching methods
- lectures,
- discoussion,
- field work,
- seminary work.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
- uderstanding of human (social) space and the issues that built it,
- the abbility for applying some analyses of settlement structure,
- relating the issues that built the settlement.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
- the abbility of cartographic modelling,
- the knowledge of spatial complex.
Readings
Daniel, P. 1996: The Geography of Settlement. Oliver&Boyd, London
Heineberg, H. 2000: Stadtgeographie. UTB. Paderborn
Massey, D., Allen J., Pile S. 1999: City Worlds. Routledge, London
Rebernik, Dejan: Urbana geografija. Univerza v Ljubljani, 2008
Drozg, V. 2018: Geografija naselij – študijsko gradivo. Filozofska fakulteta, Maribor
Bole, D. (Ed.). 2020: Velenje, industrijsko mesto v preobrazbi. Založba ZRC.
Vsako študijsko leto bo seznam študijske literature posodobljen./ The list of study literature will be updated each school year.
Prerequisits
Positivelly accomplished seminary work is a condition to the oral exam accession.
