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Tvorba peších zón, peších ťahov a peších prepojení v historickom urbánnom priestore
Lachmannová, Monika
The thesis deals with the issue of pedestrian zones, pedestrian paths and pedestrian connections in historic urban space. The analyze of historical and urbanistic development of the public space leads to define the specific character and the main stakes of public space design in historic urban areas. On three examples of different historical city cores, the research describes the mutual relation between the space created and the constituting composition elements. It defines the main lines of pedestrian movement and compares their current and historical characer. In this way, we are able to analyze, identify and compare different approaches to historic core public space renewal. As a result of the research, possible general principles and guidelines to historic urban space design are formulated.
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Securing cities: 'Urban resilience' as a technology of government
Svitková, Katarína ; Hynek, Nikola (advisor) ; Hájek, Martin (referee) ; Chandler, David (referee)
Svitková, K. 2019. Securing cities: 'Urban resilience' as a technology of government, 282 pp. Doctoral thesis (PhD) Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Studies. Department of Security Studies. Academic supervisor: doc. PhDr. PNDr. Nikola Hynek, M. A., PgDip Res, PhD Abstract Resilience has become a buzzword in policy and practice of 'securing' and 'developing' cities and urban populations. This study discusses the use of this concept in the context of governance of subjectivities. More specifically, reflecting its empirical focus, it poses critical questions about constructing and promoting 'urban resilience subjects', and scrutinizes the process of internalization of resilience as a self-governance technique, self-imposed on and by citizens for their own good. The purpose is to problematize resilience as a universal tool or strategy to govern cities and their inhabitants, be it in ordinary or extreme circumstances. The study ventures beyond the traditional critique of neoliberalism to ask questions about what resilience does in terms of a performative governance, exploring the disciplinary and biopolitical nature of this process. Keywords resilience, governmentality, urban, cities, power, biopolitics
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Securing cities: 'Urban resilience' as a technology of government
Svitková, Katarína ; Hynek, Nikola (advisor) ; Hájek, Martin (referee) ; Chandler, David (referee)
Svitková, K. 2019. Securing cities: 'Urban resilience' as a technology of government, 282 pp. Doctoral thesis (PhD) Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Studies. Department of Security Studies. Academic supervisor: doc. PhDr. PNDr. Nikola Hynek, M. A., PgDip Res, PhD Abstract Resilience has become a buzzword in policy and practice of 'securing' and 'developing' cities and urban populations. This study discusses the use of this concept in the context of governance of subjectivities. More specifically, reflecting its empirical focus, it poses critical questions about constructing and promoting 'urban resilience subjects', and scrutinizes the process of internalization of resilience as a self-governance technique, self-imposed on and by citizens for their own good. The purpose is to problematize resilience as a universal tool or strategy to govern cities and their inhabitants, be it in ordinary or extreme circumstances. The study ventures beyond the traditional critique of neoliberalism to ask questions about what resilience does in terms of a performative governance, exploring the disciplinary and biopolitical nature of this process. Keywords resilience, governmentality, urban, cities, power, biopolitics
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Movement ANO 2011 in Local Coalitions: Case Study of Large Cities
Hlušička, Filip ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
This diploma thesis presents Hnutí ANO 2011 as a Czech local governance participant. Having put emphasis on ANO's local organizations, the diploma thesis deals with particular situations in selected statutory cities during the 2014-2018 electoral cycle. As the electoral cycle went by, internal problems in local organizations emerged which ended up with party board abolishing some of the organizations. Coalitions in which ANO participated also were affected by those problems. In some cities, however, coalitions persisted and ANO local organizations had not suffer with internal problems, study of which also became a part of the research in the thesis. Having a strong leader from the business environment and limited membership, ANO 2011 is considered to be a business-firm party focused on marketing strategies and external specialists. As a typical business-firm party instance Forza Italia can be named, established in 1990s by Italian businessman and future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Business-firm party character of ANO may affect local governance where ANO's local organizations follow ANO party board's instructions and those organizations lack of autonomy to make their own political decisions.
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Waste Objects in Towns in the High Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period in Relation to Archeo-zoological Discoveries
MIKLOVÁ, Vendula
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the function of waste objects in the archeological record from the archeo-zoological point of view. The research part focuses on general information concerning hygiene and waste disposal in medieval and early modern cities. It also addresses the methods of waste objects research and the occurrence of animals in cities. The practical part summarizes the analysis results of the archeo-zoological assemblage from the town hall in České Budějovice which dates back to the High Middle Ages and the early modern period.
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The creditors of the last members of the Rožmberk house
LEVÝ, Václav
The thesis Věřitelé posledních Rožmberků (The creditors of the last members of the Rožmberk house) engages in creditors of Vilém of Rožmberk in the years 1589 1592, especially in the creditors whose claims his brother Petr Vok of Rožmberk took on after the death of Vilém of Rožmberk in 1592. The thesis based on from the list of the rožmberks debts that preserved in the State Regional Archives in Třeboň. The thesis attemptes achieve "the collective biography" of these creditors with the use of prosopographic method and find the commons signs that connected these creditors.
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Mollusca of European cities
Wolfová, Lucie ; Juřičková, Lucie (advisor) ; Drvotová, Magda (referee)
This bachelor thesis summarises knowledge of urban mollusc fauna. It shows cities as the centres of mollusc diversity in agricultural landscape but also as areas where high level of homogenization of mollusc assemblages were evidenced, therefore replacing native species, often endemics, with non-native and invasive species. Homogenization of urban mollusc fauna is especially caused by passive dispersal of species by human as well as to urban climate that is more favourable for spreading and surviving of non-native species, usually from warmer areas, than surrounding. There is mentioned another connected topic in this thesis - types of mollusc spreading. Furthermore, there is summarized which species of mollusc are typical for urban environment, what are the factors influencing the mollusc fauna and last but not least the methodological approaches for study of urban mollusc fauna.
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Procedural generation of cities in 3D
Krabec, Miroslav ; Gemrot, Jakub (advisor) ; Beneš, Jan (referee)
Title: Procedural generation of cities in 3D Author: Miroslav Krabec Department: Department of Software and Computer Science Education Supervisor: Mgr. Jakub Gemrot Abstract: During development of computer games great amount of time is spent on creating game environment. For that reason there is an effort to generate this environment procedurally. One of the interesting areas is generation of cities. Algorithm (Weber et al., 2009) is fully geometrical and offers considerable freedom in parametrization of the city, however there has not been an open implementation of this algorithm. Our work offers such an implementation and includes the possibility of 3D visualization in Unity 3D, a tool designed for development of computer games. Here we emphasize the ease of using custom 3D models of buildings, roads and crossroads. Resulting software can help game developers to generate cities for their games. However it can generate only relatively small cities (several thousands of buildings), but in context of computer games this is usually sufficient. Resulting city is very parameter sensitive and it is not trivial to achieve desired outcome. Further research would be needed for evaluation of generated cities. Keywords: procedural generation, cities, 3D
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Geographical aspects of corruption in Czechia on the example of public procurement in selected regions
Podestát, Jan ; Tomeš, Jiří (advisor) ; Skuhrovec, Jiří (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of corruption in public procurement. The main aspect of the work is to compare the transparency of public procurement in selected towns of Pilsen, South Bohemia, Karlovy Vary and Ústí Region in the years 2006 - 2014. Based on the data of public procurement were observed characteristics, that highlight the risk of corruption. Partial aim was to assess possible influence of political environment and their changes on the practice and transparency of public procurement. The results show, that the towns, which are positively evaluated in terms of their transparency are characterized by high participation in elections and low unemployment rate. According to the results, towns with higher levels of economic and social capital rate are generally better evaluated in their transparency. The influence of variables characterizing the political environment on the transparency of public procurement, was not proved. Keywords: public procurement, potential corruption, regional differencies, towns, z-index
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Borough landed estate of Sušice. From borough villages to abolition of corvee and its results
Lhoták, Jan ; Maur, Eduard (advisor) ; Petráň, Josef (referee) ; Knoz, Tomáš (referee)
Jan Lhoták Borough landed estate of Sušice. From borough villages to abolition of corvee and its results (abstract) The aim of this doctoral thesis lies in its contribution to a complex problem of economic development of Czech landowning towns in the post-White Mountain period. The research is focused on a selected problem of town feudalisation, i. e. analysis of the importance as well as extent of their seignorial activities. Czech historiography has dealt with such a topic rather marginally, because towns used to be understood as a strange element in feudal environment, which on the contrary created conditions for social modernisation. Aristocratic (chamber) or church landed estates used to be studied as a matter of priority. Introductory chapter balances current research on the topic of borough landed estates. General survey of the research in Western Europe is presented first. Seignorial ambitions of towns are part and parcel of a vast outlined study of mutual relation between the town and the country. The topic has already been applicated in archaeology and medievistics. For the Early Modern period the research has been fragmented between agrarian and urban history, the methods of which approach the topic with various results (above all the work of Adolf Zeman about Pilsen and Rokycany in the 18th...
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