SUMMARY The presented research focuses on energy (im)balance on both global and local scale. Since the second half of the twentieth century, research regarding cities and their climate has focused on various physical properties that affect various physical and chemical processes such as energy absorptivity, reflectivity, emissivity, thermal conductivity, transpiration, evaporation, evapotranspiration, photosynthesis, etc. With […]

SUMMARY The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is a challenge to the world – primarily from the medical and economic point of view – but also to the search for new forms of tourism and the urban environment. Prior to mass vaccination, the main strategy to manage a pandemic were non-pharmaceutical interventions. Global travel restrictions and “home” […]

SUMMARY Study of urban stability shows that the special concern given to the problems of the commerce in urban structures is derived from the dominance of this functional element in the system of facilities and from its ability to put together economical, urbanising and social functions. That all enables to influence urban stability to a […]

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 In most countries of the world residential construction is at a turning point. The problems of providing large numbers of people with housing are being replaced increasingly by problems of improving the quality of housing. In discussion of both experts and politicians, the emphasis is no longer on rapid construction of whole towns or […]

Urban democracy

Maroš Fečík

SUMMARY This article is available only in Slovak without a summary.