SUMMARY The TEMPUS project REGAMTER has initiated the question of establishing the Institute of land-use planning at the FA STU. Land-use planning has been taught at the FA STU in a way to develop creative and conceptual thinking to solve the structural problems in the country. Land-use planning practice requires solving other aspects too. To […]

SUMMARY The paper is concerned with the education of sociology in the frame of the FA STU curriculum which has not always been in accordance with the ideas of the lectures of this subject. These ideas are supported by the objective facts, by the nature of both sociology and architecture, and by the professional profile […]

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 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 […]