Shrinking cities

Timetable

The detailed timetable:

10.04.2024 (Wednesday) Collegium Geologicum, Room 64, 11.30-13.00.

17.04.2024 (Wednesday) Collegium Geographiucum, Room 13, 11.30-13.00.

24.04.2024  (Wednesday) Collegium Geographiucum, Room 13, 11.30-13.00.

15.05.2024  (Wednesday) Collegium Geographiucum, Room 13, 11.30-13.00.

29.05.2024  (Wednesday) Collegium Geographiucum, Room 13, 11.30-13.00.

05.06.2024  (Wednesday) Collegium Geographiucum, Room 13, 11.30-13.00.

Location:

Faculty of Human Geography and Planning,

Collegium Geologicum,  Bogumiła Krygowskiego 12, https://maps.app.goo.gl/LtgyFyR2giBEsdt78

Collegium Geographicum, Bogumiła Krygowskiego 10, https://goo.gl/maps/ZCYtn9Ugh5nhQ8XY6

 

Module aim (aims)

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the issue of shrinking cities as a topical phenomenon in urban geography. In particular, the course will address the following issues:

- urban shrinkage in the past and today

- shrinking cities: a global phenomenon?

- causes and consequences of urban shrinkage

- "icons" of shrinkage

- shrinkage of old industrial cities

- regeneration strategies in shrinking cities

- industrial heritage as part of regeneration strategy in shrinking old industrial cities

- the specificity of post-socialist urban shrinkage

- shrinking cities in Poland

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Basic knowledge of urban geography.

Syllabus

Week 1:Definitiona of a 'shrinking city', causes and consequences

 

Week 2: Geography of urban shrinkage with a focus on post-socialist cities

 

Week 3: Shrinking cities in Poland

 

Week 4: Governing shrinking cities

 

Week 5: Regeneration strategies in shrinking cities

 

Week 6: Planning culture in shrinking cities

Reading list

Will be provided during the course.