Shrinking cities

Timetable

The timetable will be set in Februrary 2025.

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: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.