A new portal of monument preservation; cultural monuments as filed once and today, by Alexandra Křížová
A portal named Monument Catalogue was launched at the end of 2015, after a period of almost 120 years passed between the first inventories of monuments in the Kingdom of Bohemia and today’s computer filing systems of the stock of monuments. During this period the first act on cultural monument preservation and their registration in the form of regional lists was implemented, converted later into the Central List of Cultural Monuments of the Czech Republic. The Central List was first computerized in 1995 as MonimumIS, a database application, and followed by a simple web presentation named Monum-Net, but only the Monument Catalogue enables the National Heritage Institute to present most information on monuments, conservation areas and other interesting objects of monument preservation to the public.
Transformation of agricultural landscape and the landscape potential of spatial planning, by Vladimír Mackovič
Agriculture is an important factor of landscape creation, particularly determining the secondary system of landscape structure. Various examples can evidence the origin and development of the phenomenon of agricultural landscape. Most characteristics of today’s Czech agricultural landscape originated in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of heavy deformations. The social change of the early 1990s stopped the tendency to landscape arrangements for agricultural large-scale production based on public resources. However, a systematic and coordinated elimination of the cosequences has not started so far. This article deals with the main deformations of current agricultural landscape, which cannot be repaired without a systematic approach, and comments on the potential of spatial planning for landscape solutions.
Seventy years of healthy, efficient and elegant renovation of settlements; an anniversary of settlement preservation and restoration, by Dana Novotná
Seventy years ago, on 12 April 1946, an act on building restoration was approved with focus on the reconstruction of damaged structures as well as their content and functional improvement. Restoration works were carried out under gouvernement support and financial subsidies picking up the threads of the interwar system. The act introduced special principles for locations of high historical and architectural values, which implemented the concepts of reserve and restoration/reconstruction programmes and gave rise to specialized planning bodies and contractors.