Cite this article Vitková, Ľ., Štrbíková, D. (2022) ‘Pandemic as an impulse for the development of sustainable tourism along the Danube river’, Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU, 26(3), pp. 3-12. https://www.doi.org/10.2478/alfa-2021-0014 SUMMARY The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is a challenge to the world – primarily from the medical and economic […]
SUMMARY The connection of agricultural production and rural settlements is projected to the organisation of the rural area. These interactions are economical and social, they concern jobs as well as housing. The current trends present return to the life with nature, to the continuity of vernacular architecture. New forms of production enrich the village structure […]
SUMMARY The author presents here his personal ideas concerning architectural design and its philosophy, starting from the basic meaning of architecture – from serving the users’ needs. The difference between physical and “moral” lifetime of architecture brings the need of variability of the current buildings and interiors. Another discussed problem is the modernity of architecture. […]
SUMMARY Supporting housing and housing buildings is an important part of economic and social policy of all prosperous countries with market economy. The issues of housing are currently pressing also in the field of reconstruction of existing housing areas in order to refurbish them. Nowadays, the concept of the state housing policy and the strategy […]
SUMMARY The protected landscape area of the White Carpathians is an area with high landscape values, characterized by diversity of the flora and fauna as well as by unique natural environment and folk architecture. These values exist as a result of agricultural production activities of the local people. The settlements, architecture and nature are threatened […]
SUMMARY The era of railway transportation in Slovakia has begun with the arrival of the first steam train from Vienna to Bratislava on 20th August 1848. The Research and Development Institute of the Railways of the Slovak Republic has iniciated a survey of the railways stations and other railway buildings built along the Slovak railway […]
SUMMARY The countryside is more and more comprehended as a multifunctional unit and a living organism with the functions of housing, production and recreation but with various intensity of their effects. The optimum form of the agricultural business activities development determines further developing programmes. It is ideal to reach the balance between the large-scale farms […]
SUMMARY Environmental sustainability is the background for land-use documentation. Requirement of sustainable development is the main requirement in land-use planning and decision making but it is necessary to stress sustainability is more than just environmental bearing capacity since it contains the socio-ecological bearing capacity as well as the economic bearing capacity. In the frame of […]
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