Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Contemporary Forms of Urbanisation (17.UP03)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Architectural-Urbanistic Planning, Design and Theory
ECTS	6

The course will analyze current topics related to urbanization in the wider global and also within the local context. The basic goal will be to define adequate approaches to design and revitalization of urban spaces that are in line with the state of the art research.

Students will be able to examine complex processes and forms of urbanization as one of the dominant processes of today, and to develop an active, constructive and critical approach to the design of the built environment.

Global urbanization flows - definitions and numerics; Suburbanization; Transformation of the character and the relationship between the urban and the rural; Globalization, global cities and global flows; World class cities and shrinking cities; New forms of urbanization; Socio-economic and political contexts of urbanization; Local factors and forms of urbanization

Lectures, Design Practice, Consultations, Workshop. The course grade is formed based on the lecture and practice attendance, project grade and oral part of the examination.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Burdett, R & D Sudjic	The Endless City	2010	Phaidon, London, New York	English
MVRDV	Design Peak	2012	Equal Books	English
Shekhar Sh., Chawla, S.	Spatial Databases: A Tour	2003	Prentice Hall, New Jersey	English
Baccini, P., Brunner, P.H.	Metabolism of the anthroposphere	2012	MIT Press, Cambridge	English
Stimmel, C.L.	Building Smart Cities : Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking	2016	CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Bocen Sound Parkway NW, Suite	English
Ng, E.	Designing High-Density Cities: For Social & Environmental Sustainability	2010	Earthscan, London, Sterling	English
UN Habitat	State of the Worlds Cities 2012/2013	2013	Routledge, New York	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Lecture attendance	Yes	Yes	2.00
Theoretical part of the exam	No	Yes	30.00
Exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	3.00
Complex exercises	Yes	Yes	65.00

Prof. Vračarić Milica

Full Professor

Lectures

Assistant - Master Priljeva Sofija

Assistant - Master

Practical classes

Faculty of Technical Sciences

University of Novi Sad

Contact:

Address: Trg Dositeja Obradovića 6, 21102 Novi Sad

Phone: (+381) 21 450 810
(+381) 21 6350 413

Fax : (+381) 21 458 133
Emejl: ftndean@uns.ac.rs