Rural Planning

Theoretic and historic starting points for comprehension of the transformation processes in the rural area. The foundations and methodological basics for sustainable management and development of rural areas and settlements regarding their or urban function. When planning and managing settlement patterns (settlements and other built structures) in rural area, their participation in the landscape and the relationship to the  space is important. Rural culture and identity; the genesis of the rural area with a focus on the development of agriculture as a forming element of traditional rural cultural landscape; spatial composition of the rural area; agrarian operations as an instrument of managing agricultural space and settlement; renovation and development of rural settlements; modern forms of spatial development of the rural area; traditional rural architecture and the forms of its renovation.