SUMMARY General trends of spatial development as the change of the role of the cities and regions and possibilities of their development or restructuring of transport relations are influenced by the process of European integration. It is doubtless that the issues of integration and its relationship towards territorial development should be paid special attention to. […]

SUMMARY The history of the interdisciplinary studies in spatial planning has begun in Austria in 1970 at the TU Vienna. The next modification of the curriculum of spatial planning started to take place in 1992. At present a new model of the study is under preparation. The most substantial change compared to the present model […]

SUMMARY The contribution is divided into two parts. The first one brings the overall overview on the development and methods of spatial planning in our territory, from the very beginnings in the Middle Ages up to current practice in land-use planning that is in the focus of the paper. In the second part it deals […]

SUMMARY The new social conditions that principally determine territorial development require substantial innovation of education in the field of spatial planning. Currently there is no such study in the Czech Republic that would cover spatial planning as an independent cross-sectional discipline. There is a siginificant fact that spatial planning is being lectured at various universities. […]

SUMMARY The existing demand for planners in the Czech Republic splits in general between job within public administration – the “procurers” of plans – and private “plan makers” who hold positions in consultation agencies that offer the elaboration of plans, advice and expertise. The jobs on the public administration side have rather low social status […]

SUMMARY The contribution deals with the position of education of the settlement creation in the frame of curriculum at the Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. It introduces studio designs of the undergraduates in order to demonstrate the type of work and achievements that are obligatory for the undergraduates in this branch.

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 […]