Course code PolZ6004
Credit points 3
Urban and Rural Development Policy
Total Hours in Course81
Number of hours for lectures24
Number of hours for seminars and practical classes8
Independent study hours49
Responsible UnitInstitute of Social Sciences and Humanities
Course developer
Sociālo un humanitāro zinātņu institūts
Ženija Krūzmētra
Dr. geogr.
Course abstract
Subject introduce students with history of urban and rural development, planing principles, policy making and developing. Students adopt main schools about urban and rural development policies, developing theories and theories about urban and rural changes, regularities and their expressions in different places, in different scales.
Compulsory reading
1. Handbook of Urban Studies, ed. by R.Paddison, SAGE 2001, 494 c.
2. Greed C.H. (1996) Introducing Town Planing, Longman
3. Лэндри Ч. "Kреативный город", Mосква 2005.г, 399с.
4. Managing the City (2007), ed. by J.Diamond etc. Routledge.
Further reading
1. The EU Compendium of Spatial Planing Systems and Policies, www.espace-project.org/reading.htm#spatialplaning
2. Pacione M. (2001) Urban Geography/a global perspective, Routledge, 663p.
3. Rīgas attīstības plāns, www.rdpad.lv
4. Latvijas lauku attīstības valsts stratēģijas plāns 2007.-2013.gadam, www.zm.gov.lv
Periodicals and other sources
1. Žurnāls "A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy"
2. Žurnāls "Urban planing"
3. Žurnāls "Journal of Urban Planning and Development"
4. Žurnāls "Journal of Rural Studies"