Call for applications! Students from geography, history, law, and other related fields of study from all levels are welcome to join.
Course description:
“Urban Regulations and Political Memory: Towards Understanding Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Urban Development” is an international, interdisciplinary course organised by five 4EU+ member universities: University of Warsaw, University of Milan, Charles University, Sorbonne University,Heidelberg University as part of the 4EU+ joint educational offer during the academic year 2024/2025.
Key topics of the course are the driving forces of urban changes, development of smart cities and interdisciplinary methodologies of urban studies. The course is developed as part of an educational project which addresses changes in the conditions of the urban development of smart cities in Poland, Italy, Czechia and Germany, according to three dimensions: past (history), present (law) and future (geography). Emphasis is put on integrated and interdisciplinary approach in order to help students understand the complexity of new urban centres in which real estate development must coexist with the protection of the environment and with the history and heritage of the local community.
The course will be conducted by an interdisciplinary team of historians, lawyers, geographers and educational sciences specialists.
Course dates: Wednesdays afternoons, starting from 2 October 2024 (13:15-14:45 / 13:15-15:45 / 13:15-16:30).
Language of instruction: English.
Number of online didactic hours: around 30 (lectures and workshops).
Assessment methods and conditions for obtaining credit:
Group work: producing an essay and delivering a presentation (each student group has to comprise participants from different universities). Essays will be presented at a face-to-face conference (2 days) held at the Charles University in Prague in March 2025. The best student essays could be published on the course communication platform / website or in co-authorship with the tutor in journals.
ECTS credits at Charles University: Faculty of Law 4, Faculty of Science 5. / ECTS credits atthe University of Milan: 3. (University of Milan: history –only MA students).
ECTS credits at the University of Warsaw: Faculty of Law 8, Faculty of History 4, Faculty of Geography 8 / ECTS credits atHeidelberg University: Faculty of Geography 8.
Application and selection:
The students will be selected based on their CVs and motivation letters. The deadline for sending the documents is 16 September 2024. The CV and the motivation letter should be sent as a single PDF document to unread@wpia.uw.edu.pl. The file’s name should contain the applicant’s name (surname_name.pdf), and the subject of the email should be “UNREAD+ recruitment”. The motivation letter should indicate the students’ objectives and motivations for taking the course. The motivation letter should not exceed 1,000 characters.
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We are pleased to announce that a research consortium led by Dr Martin Fleischmann has been awarded a grant to study the structure of cities in Europe in space and time. The project, funded by the European Space Agency, will be carried out in collaboration with academic partners from The Alan Turing Institute, led by prof. Dani Arribas-Bel, and the OECD Geospatial Lab, led by Dr Claudia Baranzelli, and with partners from policy (The Prague Institute of Planning and Development) and practice (4ct).
During the 12 months of the project, the team will develop the the methodological basis for the development of a continental scale urban fabric classification that can be unfolded in time using artificial intelligence applied to Sentinel 2 satellite imagery.
The total value of the funding is €250,000.
We are very happy that our team members (PhD students) gain experience abroad! A few weeks ago, Niloufar Ghafouriazar, completed a three-month doctoral internship at the University of Toronto’s Geography and Planning Department as an international visiting graduate student. She took a course on Qualitative Data Analysis and concentrated on applying grounded theory qualitative methods in urban studies under the supervision of Professor Zachary Hyde.
In the last three years, we have welcomed three new PhDs to our team. We just forgot to let you know. Congratulations to all of them, of course, and we look forward to seeing who will be the next successful PhD graduates.
At the end of April, the Annual AAG Meeting took place in Honolulu (Hawaii). The themes of this year’s AAG connected meeting and academic offerings to the ecologies, history, and cultures of the host location in Hawai‘i, affirming the interconnectedness of place and beings here and around the world. These themes shaped keynotes and special events during the meeting. The three main themes were:
Reciprocal Scholarship
Colonialism and Resources
Recovery and Restoration
Two members of our research lab attended this year’s AAG, Jiří Nemeškal and Martin Ouředníček.
Jiří Nemeškal was part of the session “GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI and Social Sensing for Human-Pandemic Dynamics” and presented a paper called “Disruption of long-term commuting development – the impact of Covid-19 on the daily mobility in the Czech Republic.”A session devoted to the new book Theory and Explanation in Geography (Wiley, 2024)
Our team member, Adela Petrovic, since February 2024, has embarked on a six-month doctoral fellowship at Social Geography and Urban Studies (SURB), University of Zurich.She is delving into the complexities of gentrification dynamics and urban transformation processes under the supervision of Professor Hanna Hilbrandt.
Don’t miss the February seminar “Urban Planning and Development – Finding the Bridge between Science and Practice”. The event is prepared in the framework of the 4EU+ Alliance by the project team Urban Regulations and Political Memory: Towards an Understanding of the Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Urban Development PLUS. The focus will be on spatial planning from different perspectives – geographical and legal – in three countries: Czechia, Italy and Poland. Karolina Wojciechowska, Martin Ouředníček and Zdeňka Havlová will be among the presenters.
Date: 21 February 2024, 13:15-14:45
Form: online
The whole programme will be in English!
More about the programme and the link to log in here.
This paper explores the challenges involved in conducting interviews with people with visual impairments in geographical research of blind people’s experiences of urban space.
Having a garden or being in the city? The trade-offs and strategies of young middle-class families in Prague
Using the concept of life pathways, the study explores the process of decision-making about moving to a post-socialist city and how housing needs and preferences intersect with what is affordable for young middle-class families.
In praise of (spatial) bundles
ARRIBAS-BEL, D., FLEISCHMANN, M. (2023): In praise of (spatial) bundles. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51, 1, 3-6.
This is an editorial that focuses attention on an approach to the classification of (urban) landscapes called spatial bundles.
Clustergram: Visualization and diagnostics for cluster analysis
This paper presents a Python package called clustergram that provides tools for analyzing clustering solutions and visualizing observation behavior in relation to a tested range of class count possibilities, enabling a deeper understanding of the behavior of observations divided into classes and more informed decision making about the optimal number of classes.
Inequalities in experiencing urban functions. An exploration of human digital (geo-)footprints
This study uses high spatial-temporal resolution data provided by Spectus.ai to investigate how the level of deprivation in the area where people live affects the types of urban environments they are more likely to use for their daily activities.
Adela Petrovic, a PhD student and a member of our research team, was awarded the Prof. Vlček Scholarship. We congratulate her on the award and appreciate all her work!
The Professor Miroslav Vlček scholarship is awarded to a foreign student who, in addition to fulfilling his/her study duties, has contributed to the dissemination of the reputation of the Charles University in Czechia and abroad, and who has supported greater internationalization of the university environment of the public universities in Prague.
Our team participated in the (tenth anniversary) Cities After Transition conference, known mainly as CATference. Dozens of researchers working on cities in Central and Eastern Europe met this time in Riga. We were understandably not absent and presented several papers:
The Distribution of Ukrainian Refugees in Czechia: Regional Disparities and Absorptive Capacity Analysis (together with Pavlína Netrdová and Daniel Hůle)
Tracking the Evolution of Czech Housing Estates (together with Kadi Kalm, Jan Sýkora and Ondřej Špaček).
Adam Klsák:Karlovy Vary – turning a “Russian city” into a Ukrainian shelter?
Jiří Nemeškal: They’re building, but for whom? The social structure of the inhabitants of new residential areas in Prague.
Jiří-Jakub Zévl and Martin Ouředníček: Time-space mobility within Prague’s suburbs: local centers, commuting areas and autonomy of hinterland
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We are very happy that our team members (PhD students) gain experience abroad! A few weeks ago, 
At the end of April, the Annual AAG Meeting took place in Honolulu (Hawaii). The themes of this year’s AAG connected meeting and academic offerings to the ecologies, history, and cultures of the host location in Hawai‘i, affirming the interconnectedness of place and beings here and around the world. These themes shaped keynotes and special events during the meeting. The three main themes were:
ence. Dozens of researchers working on cities in Central and Eastern Europe met this time in Riga. We were understandably not absent and presented several papers: