Modern concepts of urban development
Course: Urban Studies and Regional Development
Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet
            Title
        
        
            Modern concepts of urban development
        
    
            Code
        
        
            ВК 1.1.1.
        
    
            Module type 
        
        
            Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
        
    
            Educational cycle
        
        
            Second
        
    
            Year of study when the component is delivered
        
        
            2021/2022
        
    
            Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
        
        
            3 Semester
        
    
            Number of ECTS credits allocated
        
        
            6
        
    
            Learning outcomes
        
        
            PR01. Apply the acquired theoretical knowledge and practical skills for the study of natural and socio-territorial systems at different levels of spatial organization.
PR14. Formulate scientific hypotheses, determine relevant aspects in fundamental and applied areas of research, develop and manage projects in the field of geography, nature management, urban and regional development.
PR15. Independently assess key trends in the development of natural, social and geographical processes for the formation of new areas of scientific research.
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
            Full-time form
        
    
            Prerequisites and co-requisites
        
        
            1. Obtained bachelor's degree and successful mastery of the disciplines "Quality of life of the population of cities and regions", "Contemporary Debates in Human Geography", "Urbolaboratory (Urban lab)";
2. Knowledge of the theoretical and applied foundations of social and economic geography, urban geography, regional development management, urban and regional planning, the concept of sustainable development;
3. Formed skills to quantitatively and qualitatively analyze the features of natural and social processes in geographical envelopes, to develop, manage and manage projects of a geographical and interdisciplinary focus, to evaluate and ensure the quality of works, to be able to carry out a comprehensive assessment and monitoring of resources and territories, to forecast the development of geographical processes and phenomena.
        
    
            Course content
        
        
            The educational discipline contributes to the understanding of the logic of the modern development of urbanization as a spatial phenomenon that determines the main features of the organization of society - territorial, economic, social and ecological, forms systems of urban settlements at the local, regional, national and global levels, leads to the emergence of new contents of urban formations. The course outlines the features of the impact of globalization processes on the functioning of cities and possible trends of their development in this context, as well as analyzes acute problems existing in the urban environment. The trends in the development of cities in the conditions of the neoliberal political economic doctrine of the world are analyzed.
Content part 1. Urban systems in the context of global world processes
Substantive part II. Modern concepts of balanced urban development
        
    
            Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
        
        
            1. Dronova O.L. Heourbanistyka: navch. posib. / O.L.Dronova. – K.: VPTs «Kyivskyi universytet», 2014. – 419 s.
2. Dronova O.L., Nahornyi T.V. Napriamky rozvytku Ukrainy za riznymy stsenariiamy hlobalizatsiinykh protsesiv / Ukrainskyi heohrafichnyi zhurnal 2021, №2, S. 20-31
3. Urbanistychna Ukraina: v epitsentri prostorovykh zmin: monohrafiia / za red.. K. Mezentseva, Ya.Oliinyka, N. Mezentsevoi. – Kyiv: «Feniks», 2017. – 438 s.
        
    
            Planned learning activities and teaching methods
        
        
            Lectures, seminar classes, analytical creative work, independent work, discussion.
        
    
            Assessment methods and criteria
        
        
            During the semester, after the completion of meaningful parts, thematic control works are conducted. The recommended minimum for admission to the exam is 36 points. For students who scored a total of less than 36 points (recommended minimum), a mandatory condition for admission to the exam is to write essays on issues of missed or insufficiently mastered topics. The discipline ends with an exam. The maximum number of points on the exam is 40 points. Mandatory for admission to the exam is the completion of all creative works and cases, successful writing of tests, presentations and reports at seminars.
        
    
            Language of instruction
        
        
            Ukrainian
        
    Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
                    Olena
                    Leonidivna
                    Dronova 
                
                
                    Economic and Social Geography 
heohrafichnyi fakultet
            heohrafichnyi fakultet
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
                        Economic and Social Geography
                    
                    
                        heohrafichnyi fakultet