1. Introduction to the course - Basic information about course. Course requirements and evaluation criteria.

2. How to study urban geography - Differentiated perspectives on urban social environments, epistemology, main theoretical approaches, urban journals, literature, development of the discipline and the context.

3. Classical urban theories - Classical urban theories; industrialization and urbanization; Gemeinschaft and Gesselschaft; mechanical and organic solidarity; urban personality

4. Theories of urbanisation - Theories of urbanisation, differential theories of urban origin; definition of urbanisation; urban revolution; attributes of urban environment; structure of pre-industrial and industrial city, stages and types of urban processes.

5. Chicago school of urban sociology - Social ecology approach; organisation of urban research at the Chicago University; quantitative and qualitative research methods; space and place in urban studies.

6. Radical political economy - Neomarxist approaches, circuits of capital, social justice

7. Theory of structuration and social environment - Social environment, social climate, social space, social structure, structuration, routine

8. Humanistic approach - life-world, taken for granted world, action and agency, experience and identity, social nature of urban life, space and place, sense of place, home/hometown/homeland, meaning of urban places, humanistic geography today

9. Postmodern urban geography - Condition of postmodernity (Harvey), postmodern urbanism and Los Angeles school (Dear, Flusty), postmetropolis (Soja), edge cities (Garreau).

10. Urban planning - Urban models, urban planning principles, cities for people, post-industrial city, new urbanism

11. Post-socialist paradigm and relevancy of Western theories for post-socialist city

12. Time geography in urban research - Human activities in time-space, spatial mobility, daily and life trajectories, accessibility, prism, city and everyday life, mobile phone data.

13. Discussion seminar