SUMMARY When starting with the new concept of the study and its curricula, it is inevitable to consider the substance of the university system of education, its possible ways of application as well as the fact if the discipline itself includes the possibility to apply the basic academic principles. There are many reasons why the […]

Management of urban development

Ľubica Vitková, Jaroslav Coplák

SUMMARY In the introductory part, the authors reflect global tendencies in urban planning, especially highlighting its increasingly apparent shift towards management activity. In addition to the traditional role of urban planner who has been engaged predominantly as an expert and creator, now he has to work also as coordinator and mediator between the involved “actors” […]

SUMMARY The paper discusses the topic of strategic urban planning in the planning system of the Slovak Republic at local level. The introduction notes that the changing socio-economic conditions of global nature bring new demands on the form of spatial planning. Further it briefly describes the origins and development of strategic planning, particularly its application […]