HABITAT − Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme
In the HABITAT series of articles (4/1999 issue of the Urban Planning and Spatial Development magazine) we have made our readers acquainted with the UN Centre for Settlements (HABITAT) and the Habitat Agenda. This issue follows up with further information - “Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme - BLP”
Flood Prevention as an Integral Part of Physical Planning, by Jaromír Říha
Physical planning deals with functional usage of space, sets forth the principles of a territory’s organization, and coordinates the activities to develop space in their contents and timing. The experience of floods in recent years confirms that streams represent an important limit of the usage and the development of space. In our opinion, this fact is often neglected in the course of the process of physical planning. The article suggests possible ways of cooperation between physical planners and water engineers in the field of flood prevention.