Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Contemporary Theories, Methods and Technologies in Urban Planning (19.RPR193)

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Regional Development Planning and Management (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Urbanizam i planiranje regionalnog razvoja Architectural-Urbanistic Planning, Design and Theory
ECTS	6

Within the course the students will be presented with various theoretical and methodological approaches to contemporary research of urban environment, as well as with different manners in which emerging technologies may affect future urban processes – ranging from analysis to design. The main goal of this course is to examine modern cities as complex social and spatial systems, in which the designing and planning activities are becoming more reliant on advanced technologies of various kinds from the aspects of theory, methodology and practice.

The students who successfully fulfill their responsibilities will be equipped with skills of analytical and critical thinking, enabling them to thoroughly analyze urban transformations through contemporary urban processes that cause them. In addition to gaining knowledge on new methods and technologies in urban planning, students will also acquire the ability to predict various manners of their use in managing the processes of urban development.

- Transformation processes of modern cities on a global scale; - Urban question and the new concepts; - Contemporary urban planning theories; - Specific issues and processes in the development of cities of today - a critical analysis; - Methodology of urban planning; - Urban growth management; - Digital technologies – use for analytical purposes; - Use of emerging technologies in the design and planning processes - adapting to the context; - Smart Cities and "digital intelligence" of cities; - Use of modern technologies - case studies; - Visions of city development in the future.

Method of critical analysis; illustrative-demonstrative methods; methods of synthesis of acquired knowledge; interaction between participants in the learning process.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
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Group of authors	MVRDV : agendas on urbanism	2012	Equal Books, Seoul	English
Group of authors	Environmental protection of urban and suburban settlements : proceedings. [Knj.] 1	2011	Ecological Movement of Novi Sad, Novi Sad	English
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Stimmel, C.L.	Building Smart Cities : Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking	2016	CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Bocen Sound Parkway NW, Suite	English
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Batty, M.	The New Science of Cities	2013	The MIT Press, Massachusetts	English