SUMMARY The topic of mental health is on the fringe of the interest of architects and urban planners. But the physical environment in which we live is one of the strongest determinants of our health (United Nations, 2015). Sometimes, we overlook these issues – or they remain unobserved behind more visible phenomena. On a case […]
SUMMARY This article is available only in Slovak without a summary.
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 Social care and town planning are different activities but they have common items and they can enrich each other. The article is dealing with these common items from the architect’s viewpoint. Town planning is a social service for the society, a few years ago fully under state control. But a social state is an […]
SUMMARY The creative process of actualisation of urban structure is to a great extent influenced by objectively acting urbanisation regularities. The paper characterises some of the transformation and interaction regularities, their creative use is determined by the quality of the interference to the changing city structure. The transformational regularities of intensification, integration, homogenization etc. are […]
SUMMARY When considering the future direction of the FA STU and thus the education of the town and country planners in Slovakia, we cannot do without a view on European and world development. It is therefore inevitable to take into account the findings of analyses done by the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). […]
SUMMARY To achieve a higher dimension of the university studies, while reaching a modern and compatible branch of study, it must be reflected in the educational programmes. The innovative process of town and country planning is determined by new socio-economic conditions. A wider context of housing development issues is required from ISCED-UNESCO with the concept […]
SUMMARY An architect as a town planner should carry out their work for the benefit of applying architecture in society – mainly in towns and villages. Education concerning this mission should include something from the original sense of architecture, thus from times of antique, the middle ages and new ages. The school of those times […]
SUMMARY Town-planning education at the FA CTU in Prague represented an independent study branch until 1989. Today only architecture is studied there but town-planning profilation of students is still possible: they can choose town-planning oriented subjects and studios. The studios are “vertical” ones. More freedom in the study program causes problems for some students.