Shrinking Cities

Timetable

The course takes place from 15.00 to 16.30 on Mondays starting from April 17.

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