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Ekologická města budoucnosti - nové formy osídlení pro 21. století v mezích trvale udržitelného rozvoje ČR
Šárka, Jan
At the beginning of the third millennium, the world is denser than ever before. It is inhabited by more and more people who want more space, who travel more and who consume more. The production of our desires is visible everywhere, not only in traditional centers but also in landscape between cities. The Earth has changed into one global city with serious ecological problems, which are getting worse. If we want to change this situation, we have to start thinking in much wider context. That’s not possible without significant priorities change in society. Visionary projects, which seemed to be an utopia in the past, are now inspiration for larget-scale thinking, which is so important in contemporary urban design.
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Countryside, City, People and Food
Šárka, Jan
Food is the most basic of all resources. Invention of agriculture was the beginning of human civilization. Throughout all history we have been firmly connected with the landscape that feed us. Even today most of our landscape is shaped by the historical relationship between settlements and the surrounding productiv area. Also the landscape has always reflected the shared values and common beliefs, in our case Christian religion. Natural relations are no longer valid a we have nothing to replace them. Original reliance of the city on the surrounding agricultural landscape is completely reversed. What earlier used to be self-sufficient country, is now a urban sprawl, completely depend to the proximity of the city. Today we live as atheists and urban people in a Christian and rural landscape, which we don‘t understand. Only a small percentage of people work in agriculture now. However the production of food changed our environment more than any other human activity and has significant environmental impacts. Our habits associated with food, eating patterns, our diet, food production and distribution all significantly influenced the formation of the cities. We have no choice than to redefine our relationship to the landscape and the needs to satisfy. This logically change the way of thinking about cities as well.
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Urban agriculture
Šárka, Jan
Within the contemporary European city many people no longer see the relationship between life and its natural supporting processes. Increasing of geografical and psychological distances between food producer makes recent unsustainable way of food producti
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Žabovřesky Meadows
Šárka, Jan ; Kyselka, Mojmír (referee) ; Mléčka, Jan (advisor)
In my master’s thesis I focus on some of the challenges we will face in this century. I would like to investigate whether new lanscape, new building typology (vertical farm) and new methods of agriculture (permaculture, hydroponic, aeroponic and aquaponic systems, meat in vitro, and NASA research) could be the answer to questions concerning sustainable development, urban population increase, cities food supply, consumption habits of people, climate changes, CO2 emissions, ecological footprint and biocapacity.
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