On the subject of strategic planning in regional development, by Pavel Grebeníček & Oldřich Hájek
This article deals with issues of strategic planning in regional development. Based on foreign and Czech literature and sources including our own research, the main objective of this study is to present a summarizing overview of the questions associated with strategic planning in regional development and its relation to physical planning. It is evident that today’s strategic planning in regional development is an interesting subject in the Czech Republic and abroad, both for practitioners represented by public administration and academics researching these issues and developing them as theory. Although the basic characteristics of strategic planning in regional development are quite straightforward, a more detailed study reveals relatively large variability and some difficulties in some of its aspects.
Links and relations between physical planning tools and territorial management: the example of Prague, by KarelMaier & Jan Vozáb
This article was partially supported by Methodology of assignment for urban plans, a grant assigned to the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University within the Programme of Research, Development and Innovations of Prague.
Developable residential areas in the suburban zone of Prague, by Josef Mareš
This study comments on the results of research into available residential areas in the suburban zone of Prague in the year 2010. It is particularly focused on the relations among the size of developable areas in various settlements, their population, location within Prague’s suburban zone, the infrastructure of capacity transportation and the extent of free landscape in these settlements. With a comparison of the size of developable areas and the increase in population in the last two decades, the article contributes to the discussion on the desirability of delimited areas for development in terms of demand.
Assessment of landscape changes in the hinterland of the city of Brno under the influence of suburbanization, by Hana Vavrouchová & Adéla Lepková
This article evaluates trends of spatial development in the environs of Brno in the context of internal and external suburbanization between the years 2001 and 2011/2012. Spatial indicators (index of change in land use, relative change of specific categories of land use and determination of the dominant activity in landscape creation) were used for qualitative and quantitative analyses. Ninety-four settlements of the outer ring around the borderline of Brno and 27 peripheral cadastral communities of the city were included for analysis in the file. Most changes have been identified in agricultural land stock and built-up areas (there was a decrease in the area of arable land by approximately 1% between 2001 and 2011/2012 and an approximately corresponding increase in the share of built-up areas). Logically, most of these changes took place in settlements close to Brno’s borderline, on both its outer and inner sides, but the intensity of these changes is not elastic, which means that there is no unilateral trend in the flow over the borderline of the city.
Areas of greenery in spatial plans, by Vladimír Mackovič
This study deals with the subject of greenery at the level of spatial plans. As part of the urban planning concept, spatial plans should include the design of a system of settlement greenery. The designed concepts are projected in territories under observation by means of areas of different use, but greenery is not listed in the basic spectrum of such areas. The analytic part of this study identifies reasons why the system of greenery should already be taken into consideration at the level of spatial plans. Benefits of designing greenery as a specific area of different use are mentioned. The proposal part of the study presents the objectives of physical planning which may only be taken into consideration if specific areas of greenery are delimited. Also the principles of the use of greenery at the level of spatial plans are formulated. An important element in these is conditions related to the areas of different use, so a set of sub-categories of greenery with stipulated conditions is added for discussion.
On the problems of greenery in physical planning; response of a representative of the Ministry for Regional Development to Areas of greenery in spatial plans, by Martin Tunka
The article reflects the problems of greenery in spatial plans from the viewpoint of the central administration authority in physical planning, which is the Ministry for Regional Development of the Czech Republic, in reaction to the previous contribution, Areas of greenery in spatial plans.
Connection of planning and financing: inspiration from Switzerland, by Jindřich Felcman
Switzerland has a much more highly developed economy and more advanced institutes of democracy than the Czech Republic. Nevertheless, within the agenda of physical planning the Swiss have to solve very similar questions to ours. We can even say that it is due to economic welfare that some typical problems — such as the expansion of built-up areas and an overloaded transportation infrastructure — collide much more intensely with the limits of sustainability. It is therefore interesting to have a look at recent developments in Switzerland’s physical planning agenda, where a number of quite substantial changes have taken place.
Some negative consequences of investment in real estate in the world and the Czech Republic, by Tomáš Brabec
This article discusses the negative consequences of the belief that real estate is the best way of investing free money. Of course, investment in real estate brings a lot of positive results. However, there are at least three negative consequences: a “bubble” of real estate, deserted locations and residential segregation augmented by buildings in closed residential zones, so-called gated communities. Research studies show that the acquisition of a piece of real estate for investment in the Czech Republic, particularly Prague, is not a marginal phenomenon. All these negative consequences have thus recently started appearing in the Czech Republic.
How to make progress with sun penetration in buildings, by Jak Kaňka
The requirements for sun penetration in flats, as contained in Czech technical standards, originated at a time when apartments were constructed en masse and was designed to meet the needs of this. Now it seems necessary to adapt the standards of sun penetration to the current character of urban development. The author suggests a solution to the current problems of sun penetration in flats in diversifying the requirements by types of territories.