Basics of spatial planning 1900-3-PPP-GSE

Classes are held in the form of lectures and recitations of 30 and 15 hours, respectively. The subject of the lectures concerns spatial planning as an activity whose aim is to translate development programs into the organization of space in the sense of location of functions and appropriate spatial development. Planning issues in the lectures are discussed on a national, regional and local scale. The lectures also cover planning issues in the countries of the European Union. Recitations cover spatial planning issues on a local (municipality) scale, referring to the institutional organization of development management in Poland and the distribution of planning competences among various levels. During the recitations, students work in groups, preparing spatial development concepts for a selected area. The topics of the lectures are as follows:

• Axiology, methodology and the essence of spatial planning
• Community development policy - conditions, goals, methods of implementation
• Spatial planning as an instrument for the implementation of development plans
• Legal and institutional conditions of planning processes
• Spatial planning at the national, regional and local level
• Conditions for effective spatial planning
• Spatial planning systems
• Spatial planning and spatial order
• Spatial planning in urban and rural areas
• Spatial planning and architectural and urban design
• Development control instruments in space
• Spatial planning and spatial development design