118-0460/01 – Location and regional development (LRRK)
Gurantor department | Department of Regional and Environmental Economics | Credits | 5 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Jaroslav Urminský, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Jaroslav Urminský, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor, Master, Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Students will be able to:
* identify basic approaches to the location of economic activities
* explain the formation of economic structures
* discuss the development of settlement structures
* analyse location decision-making of enterprises and households
* use the methods typical for location decision-making
* distinguish the approaches toward local and regional development
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
This course focuses upon the theory and practice of approaches towards location decision-making. Spatial structures, their formation and development will be widely discussed as well. While these categories are assessed primarily from the economic perspective, the course deals also with their social and environmental connotations. Apart from the location, spatial arrangement, settlement systems and conceptions of local and regional development will be debated thoroughly.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Seminar work and written exam.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Location decision-making – three basic approaches and their comparison. Economic entities and the role of state in territorial development.
2. Location factors and their development and importance – specific territorial supply and demand, spatial differentiation of location factors.
3. Transportation costs and their importance – neo-classical approach towards location, spatial monopoly and its strategies.
4. Behavioural conception of location – enterprise organisation and location, types of organisational structures and their location decision-making
5. Structural conception of location – time-space compression and distanciation, changing meaning of the place and space, technological development.
6. Interaction of localities – agglomeration effects and their economic importance, mutual relations of economic entities and creation of spatial structures, mechanisms supporting concentration and dispersion of economic activities
7. Mutual relations of economic entities and formation of spatial structures - von Thünen theory and its importance for further conceptions.
8. Conceptions of geographical structures of the city – location decision-making of households, Alonso´s conception and its comparison with genuine urban structures.
9. Settlement structure and urban systems – central place theory and its contemporary importance, urban systems, evolutionary view on cities.
10. Regions and their differentiation – notion of the region, type, rank/scale and further kinds of regional differentiation, regionalism and regionalisation.
11. Local and regional development – fundamental approaches toward local and regional developments, fundamental approaches toward local and regional policies.
12. Contemporary themes and conceptions of local and regional development – specific features of local and regional development in Central and Eastern Europe.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction