General information
Course type | AMUPIE |
Module title | Shrinking cities |
Language | Engilsh |
Module lecturer | prof. Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz, dr Przemysław Ciesiółka |
Lecturer's email | przemko@amu.edu.pl |
Lecturer position | Full professor, Assistant professor |
Faculty | Faculty of Human Geography and Planning |
Semester | 2023/2024 (summer) |
Duration | 15 |
ECTS | 3 |
USOS code | 07-SC-AMU-PIE |
Timetable
The timetable will be set in January 2024.
Location: Collegium Geographicum, Bogumiła Krygowskiego 10, Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Room 103 (1st floor).
How to get there: 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: Urban shrinkage in the past and today
Week 2: Causes and consequences of urban shrinkage
Week 3: Regeneration strategies in shrinking cities
Week 4: Industrial heritage as part of regeneration strategy in shrinking old industrial cities
Week 5: Shrinkage of old industrial cities
Week 6: The specificity of post-socialist urban shrinkage
Week 7: Shrinking cities in Poland
Reading list
Will be provided during the course.