Actual changes in system of urban planning in post-socialist city: the case of Prague

After the change of political system in Czechoslovakia (1989) came also a lot of social, economical and cultural changes. Today, all the Czech cities stay in front of the biggest change of city planning philosophy in last two decades. Prague, the capital city of Czech Republic, decided for a big institutional transition in 2012. The municipality, in cooperation with Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague, is preparing completely pioneering methodology for quality commissioning of land use plans and, in cooperation with the new Institute of Planning and Development, is preparing innovative system of city planning. There are new ordinances, laws, regulations, tourist trade strategies and many other documents. Prague, as one of the strongest regions in East-Central Europe, can be seen like a laboratory of current development of post-socialist city. The new methodology of Metropolitan Plan could be a key to success

A methodology for the comprehensive identification and protection of the valuable attributes of historic cities and public spaces and the preservation of their authenticity

The purpose of this work is to create a methodology for identifying complementary attributes critical to the sustainability and authenticity of historic towns and for designing innovative tools for their protection in land-use planning and care-taking processes at heritage sites. In addition, this methodology can be further used to present the values of historical urbanism. It is based on a relatively comprehensive urban assessment and innovative methods using computer-aided imaging techniques conforming to international standards of urban management with public participation. The specific objective is to formulate and define general standard documentation and tools for assessing urban development in the course of planning and building-development within the framework of heritage-site care and preservation, or more precisely, to assess the degree of heritage value of specified urban/urbanistic phenomena and their attributes. In other words: the specification of urban phenomena and their attributes with heritage potential

On the research of monumental values of historical cities of the Czech Republic

Cílem tohoto článku je seznámit čtenáře ZPP s cíli a dosavadními výsledky pětiletého výzkumného projektu Původ a atributy památkových hodnot historických měst ČR, na němž se podílel tým odborníků ze dvou spolupracujících institucí FA ČVUT A ÚTAM AV ČR.The aim of this article is to acquaint readers with the goals and results of the five-year research project Origin and Attributes of Historic Values of Historic Towns of the Czech Republic, in which a team of experts from two cooperating institutions FA CTU AND UTAM AS CR participated