An Urbanized Area Used to Be Here, What’s Here Now? A Brownfield or City Outskirts? by Hana Paclová & Rostislav Walica
The disputable attitude of Ostrava’s town hall leaders to local monuments and the preservation of the structure of the city centre is best illustrated on the destiny of the former abattoir and its surroundings. The yard of historically valuable buildings with its distinct tower of fair-face brickwork keeps dilapidating despite constant remarks of preservationists and other specialists in the field. When the historic part of the abattoir was sold by the municipality to the retail network of Bauhaus, in 1994, a concrete hall, partly glassed-in, was built. There were several plans for the use of the historic buildings of the abattoir but it seems most probable that the current owner lets them so heavily dilapidated that no more restoration will be possible.
“The House behind the House” as a New Urban Style, by Helena Jakubcová
In relation to the newly valid 183/2006 Building Act and its implementing ordinances such as the 501/2006 Regulation, some settlements, especially villages and country towns, will probably be affected by a kind of revolution in urban planning. This article comments on a new phenomenon the new legislation makes possible, namely housing in “row two”, behind the street fronts on the oblong plots of country houses.
The Jewish Quarter of Třebíč Seven Years After the Inscription to the UNESCO World Heritage List, by Lubor Herzán
Třebíč’s Jewish quarter and the Basilica of St. Procopius were inscribed to the prestigious UNESCO list of cultural and natural heritage sites in 2003. Yet, it was still in the end of 1980’s when the area was destined for total demolition. The complicated development of this part of the town between the late 1990’s and today is the subject of this article, especially pinpointing the factually and chronologically interconnected measures the municipality has taken to save this unique territory and, consequently, gain new and extraordinarily attractive areas for the development of town wide and supraurban functions of the place.