Students will understand resilience as a key characteristic of long-term sustainable development. They will know the economic nature of resilience and the possibilities of its management in big cities. They will understand the issues of security planning and its relationship to crisis management. They will be able to apply the knowledge in other research activities.

Oral exam

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1) Introduction, discussion of current problems of large cities in the world

2) The rise and fall of cities in history as a result of low resilience

3) Basic flows of urban metabolism, modern aspects of urban resilience

4) Concepts of sustainability and resilience, differentiation of goals and strategies in urban planning in the settlement system

5) Economic point of view – The Resilience Dividend

6) Urban structure as a tool for increasing the resilience of the city

7) Social and demographic aspect of city resilience, housing issue

8) Planning of the resilient city's transport system, mobility and accessibility issue

9) Planning and management of resilient technical infrastructure

10) Security planning of big cities, typology of crisis and security plans

11) Crisis management of big cities, crisis staff

12) City manager vs. head of the crisis staff, theory and practice

13) The future of administration and management of big cities in terms of resilience; legislation, security planning and crisis management issue

14) Discussion of current problems of big cities in the world from the point of view of the city (crisis) manager