Editorial

Katarína Kristiánová

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Mgr. art. Dominika Belanská Jedlé mesto, o. z., Bratislava, Slovakia ultra.belanska@gmail.com Ing. Miriam Heinrichová, PhD. Institute of Landscape and Garden Architecture Faculty of Architecture STU, Bratislava, Slovakia miriam.heinrichova@stuba.sk Boglárka Ivanegová, B.A. Jedlé mesto, o. z., Bratislava, Slovakia boglarka@nastreche.sk Bc. Pavla Kilnarová Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic info@mojenamesti.com Prof. Ing. arch. Bohumil […]

SUMMARY Urban community gardens are extraordinary public spaces, which provide city dwellers with opportunities to transform the city environment according to their needs and wishes. The space of a garden is an attractive combination of natural and urban elements. Along with a satisfaction of the basic need to grow own food, gardens enrich the urban […]

SUMMARY Online urban mapping executed by its inhabitants could contribute significantly to creating better evidence-based urban policies. The reason behind is that the inhabitants as daily users of the city identify their needs in the city most accurately. The municipality should take their opinions into consideration as they are its only clients. The main aim […]

SUMMARY Many cities in Slovakia use instead of strategic planning the tactics of everyday struggle with problems. They create thus a space for civic initiatives and associations and with their ideas of how to solve the problems. Although an appropriate usage of the potential of civic initiatives and associations would bring benefits for all concerned […]

SUMMARY We expect four two different scales in the waterfront environment assessment in the urban structure (XL, L, M, S). The interdisciplinary research in the Bratislava public space potential, problems and individual quality help us improve the conceptual development coordination. In the complex land‐use planning process, however, it is also necessary to know everyday residents […]

Value appraisal of a square: Project mojenamesti.com

Pavla Kilnarová, Ivana Lelkes, Kristián Škoda, Evgenia Kuznetsova, Michal Veselý

SUMMARY Our society is constantly changing. Regardless, if this development is considered a progress or decay, it has a significant impact on all fields of human activities, including the forming of public spaces. Changing needs of the society influence also the way of using the interspaces between the buildings. However, the new functions are not […]

Historic garden as public space (?)

Tamara Reháčková, Ivan Stankoci, Miriam Heinrichová

SUMMARY The status of public spaces in a city, their importance, function and facilities they provide, belong to the today’s most discussed themes by professionals and non-professionals. Public spaces can be defined as open free spaces which are available to the public regardless of gender, race, religion etc. Especially in urban areas, the public green […]