Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Spatial Data and Urban Systems (19.UP07)

General information:
 
Category Theoretical-methodological
Scientific or art field
  • Urbanizam i planiranje regionalnog razvoja
  • Architectural-Urbanistic Planning, Design and Theory
ECTS 4

The course offers an insight into current theoretical and methodological approaches in the research and understanding of contemporary urban phenomena. The aim of the course is based on the critical thinking of the relation between information technologies and urban systems, with the focus on the basic notions and concepts related to spatial and urban data, their characteristics, and possibilities for collection, analysis and implication in scientific research and practical work.

Adopting the knowledge on the theoretical and methodological approaches related to research and understanding of the contemporary city; Ability to understand the basic ideas related to urban and spatial data, and their use in the research of urban phenomena; Ability for critical understanding of the role of information technologies in the transformations of urban space; Ability to understand main challenges in the planning and development of contemporary cities based on technological development; Developing critical thinking, adoption of the language of research and ability for critical use of resources.

Digital technologies and a large amount of generated data transform the material, economic, social, cultural, and political spheres of urban reality. These transformations require new theoretical and methodological approaches to understand space, spatial levels and factors that affect complex urban systems. The syllabus of the course focuses on understanding the relationship between the information technologies and urban phenomena, through addoption of the basic notions and concepts on spatial and urban data, databases, urban indicators, smart city and big data, based on a critical presentation of current theories and methodologies in a given field.

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
Rob Kitchin, Tracey P. Lauriault, Gavin McArdle(Eds.) Data and the City 2017 Routlege English
Batty, M. The New Science of Cities 2013 The MIT Press, Massachusetts English
Ronan Paddison (Ed.) Handbook of urban studies 2001 SAGE English
Laurie A Schintler, Zhenhua Chen Big Data for Regional Science 2017 Routledge English
Robert P. Haining Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice 2003 Cambridge University Press English
Stimmel, C.L. Building Smart Cities : Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking 2016 CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Bocen Sound Parkway NW, Suite English
MVRDV Metacity/Datatown 1999 010 Publishers, Rotterdam English
Course activity Pre-examination Obligations Number of points
Complex exercises Yes Yes 65.00
Written part of the exam - tasks and theory No Yes 30.00
Exercise attendance Yes Yes 2.00
Lecture attendance Yes Yes 3.00

Asst. Prof. Carević-Tomić Marina

Assistant Professor

Lectures

Assistant - Master Medenica-Todorović Ranka

Assistant - Master

Practical classes

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