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Old hospitals today usually don`t meet current health care requirements, requirements of new generations of medical facilities and technologies. For all these reasons the old hospitals and their areas often undergo urban transformation processes пїЅ change of use, revitalization or restoration. However, old hospitals and their areas often possess high architectural, landscape architectural and cultural heritage values, which should be preserved. Green areas of hospital healing gardens and old hospital parks with m...

The concept of Architectural Gerontology that is presented here is based on the past 50 years of architectural research. Initially, it was part of the social gerontology that later developed in to a separate discipline. Within the boundaries of architectural gerontology there are many research areas some of which are: 1) social demographics, accounting the needs of citizens with limited mobility; 2) the urban planning, optimizing the reduced mobility livelihood in the structure of urban residential areas; 3) the t...

Urban productive landscape has become a form of urban development increasingly separating from typical urban forms. Diagnosed and fairly well analyzed in the case of American, African cities and more often пїЅ European ones, forms of development between what we now understand as the concept of a city, and what is differing it from rural landscape areas. Basing on definitions developed by researchers such as U. Giseke (agroforopolis, beautiful productive landscapes), A. Viljoen, K. Bohn and J. Howe (productive urba...

The thesis deals with urbanization tendencies and trends in protected landscape areas in the Czech Republic. During the research there were eight selected PLAs that were under investigation and evaluated. Their selection was based on the manner and the degree of their collision with the national development priorities defined in the Territorial Development Policy of the Czech Republic. Then, in these areas, the baseline of socio-demographic characteristics (the increase of the number of houses and the number of po...

The cycle transport is fast developing in the Czech Republic. Gradually becomes not only a sport and way for use free time, but also a full-fledged type of transport. For this to become cycling transport alternative to mobility in cities is need to urban development must also adapt to the needs of cycle transport. It is not only the development of cycle track, but also integrating of cycling transport into the transport system. For fluent and particularly safe keeping cycle transport is also used by interchanges. ...