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Cultural memory and urban space of Vršovice
Sekyra, Daniel ; Řehořová, Irena (advisor) ; Češka, Jakub (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with cultural memory and urban space in the Vršovice district of Prague. The work is devoted to Vršovice as a whole, it presents Old and New Vršovice, including individual selected places. Vršovice developed mainly in the 50s and 60s of the 20th century, when new housing estates were created in Prague and urban space planning was in full swing after the war years. The work deals with the topic of memory and how this phenomenon manifests itself in culture and history. It follows several important places and buildings that have played a significant role in cultural memory and in building the identity of the inhabitants, and how these places have been affected by time and changes in society. It also tracks how big the changes were and how these places changed physically. It is mainly concentrated in the area of New Vršovice. The main reason is the greater dynamics of changes in this area. Another reason is the fact that the area of Old Vršovice has already been the subject of many studies and book titles. In this direction, New Vršovice is still a bit behind, and I would like to contribute to the study of New Vršovice. Urban space is, together with cultural memory, the main topic of this work. Cultural memory is a relatively new scientific method to help us understand these...
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Ecology of walls: Ethnography of Belgrade murals
Miličičová, Jolana ; Klepal, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (referee)
Nowadays, many of Belgrade's walls form an imaginary gallery of large-scale street paintings: murals. This thesis builds on an argument that in order to understand this phenomenon, it is important to go beyond its visual and aesthetic qualities. Instead it approaches murals as complex entities that shape and reflect life and events in a given urban space and Serbian society undergoing post-war, post-socialist and neoliberal transformations. With a help of a metaphor "ecology of walls", this thesis aims to show that murals can also be seen as a kind of "organisms" which have their own socio-material life and agency, and are closely intertwined with the "ecosystem" of the capital city and Serbian society as a whole. This "ecological" perspective allows to think about the issue holistically. That is, as an intersection of actions and events involving walls and facades, creators and passers-by, local moods and global politics. Keywords: Murals, street art, ecology, materiality, urban space, Serbia
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Ways of Self-identification of Zlín Residents with the City Space
Kopecká, Šárka ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Soukopová, Aneta (referee)
This bachelor's thesis primarily focuses on the exploration of different ways of self- identification of the inhabitants of the urban space of Zlín. The author chooses the case study method for this purpose. The author further understands the city as a constructed unit, which, however, has its own individual parts, particularities that can be separated from each other to a certain extent. Meanings are assigned to the city and its space by its inhabitants in manifest and latent ways. In this work, however, residents are not viewed as exclusively active actors who would (re)shape the space in which they live. Even the urban space itself is understood as formative and then in its self-reproductive role. Residents' identities are conceptualized as fluid and heterogeneous. The aim of this work is to answer the question of whether there is a difference in the forms of self-identification depending on the generation in which the research partner is placed. Self-identification is conceptualized as an ongoing process dependent on both internal and external factors. Even in connection with such an understanding of self-identification, the space is necessarily marked as changeable since it is also influenced and de facto shaped by the people within it.
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Berlin - the influence of the cultural differences of the inhabitants on the typical features of the contemporary urban space
Moggert, Monika
The aim of the research is to assess public urban space’s architectural and urban changes due to different cultural influences in one part of the urban district of Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg – “Berlin Kreuzberg” – a redevelopment area, which was defined around 1980 by the International Building Competition IBA 1984/87. Through it, photographic records of the individual buildings have been created, which are compared with the current state of the development. The area has a high representation of foreigners and residents with a migration background, and, with 63.5 %, a high share of non-European cultural influences. For comparison, a small part of the urban district of Lichtenberg – “Berlin Lichtenberg” – is selected. The results show the effects of cultural differences (architectural and urban) – changes in groups (Shape, Mass, and Space), as well as, for example, by comparing the number of services in both localities. Based on the data obtained, we can state no radical reconstructions in the “Berlin Kreuzberg” locality have been made. (Moggert, 2022a)
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City and dance culturer: prague rave scene - a series of interviews
Patočková, Tereza ; Hroch, Miloš (advisor) ; Lovaš, Karol (referee)
Practical bachelor thesis - City and dance culture: Prague rave scene - a series of journalistic interviews, documents the relationship between the segment of Prague dance culture - rave scene and the city, as a physical space that provides a refuge. The work seeks ways to ensure the sustainability of an important part of the scene - rave open air events, so-called warehouse parties. It is these events that are the most vulnerable part of the dance culture, as they depend on open urban locations, which are declining due to advancing gentrification. However, warehouse events are also threatened by the stance of city authorities, which in many cases decide whether or not to lend urban space to these events. The intention of this work is fulfilled by documenting the statements of the respondents, who were selected for the series on the basis of their relationship to the topic. The interviews mediate different perspectives on the topic of urban space and dance culture, which in turn provide a comprehensive picture of the possibilities that could lead to greater sustainability and stability of the scene in all its complexity. The theoretical part of the work approaches the historical context of rave culture and at the same time places it in the current framework of society and city life.
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Park Na Solidarite - public space design and its influence on life in neighborhood
Barešová, Kateřina ; Sládek, Jan (advisor) ; Duffková, Jana (referee)
The bachelor thesis is dedicated to the influence of city environment on the social life of its inhabitants with regards to the design of space. I am pointing to the influence of type of development of the city space and appearance of public ground on forming neighbor relationships among inhabitants. In the thesis, I am focusing on public space in unique city locality of housing development Solidarita. This housing project, which has been designed as a space, which shall support community relationships, does not work according to the ideas of its designers. One of the last public areas in the housing development Solidarita is the Park Na Solidarite, which does not comply with its function. I am suggesting possible reasons why it is so and I inquire into how local inhabitants perceive the space. KEY WORDS Sociology of architecture, social relations, urban space, public space
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The term of Palimpsest and Intertextuality in the Antropological-ethnological analysis of urban space
Ondrák, Vít ; Marcelli, Miroslav (advisor) ; Švantner, Martin (referee)
The thesis called The term of Palimpsest and Intertextuality in the Antropological- ethnological analysis of urban space focuses on examination of urban space from the point of view of the metaphorical conception of the term text, intertext and palimpsest. By extending the meaning of the term text from the original concept in literary science to broader layers of reality, it is possible to apply it to urban space, and then read it as an urban text. Due to the fact that the urban environment consists of many layers, it becomes an interesting solution for its complex grasp to use the term palimpsest and intertext. The first theoretical part aims to explain these concepts. The second theoretical part deals with anthropological and ethnological approaches to urban space, while the perspective of the individual who walks through the city and lets it affect becomes essential for this walker. The content of the third, applied part is then the specific space of the Nuselské údolí (Nusle valley) and its immediate surroundings, within which the individual becomes a player in the game between space and his perception. The individual layers of the environment are examined from the perspective of concepts and anthropological-ethnological approaches, which, however, do not provide a complete and exhaustive...
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The importance of greenery in the city
Svobodová, Lucie ; Blasinski, Petr (referee) ; Rubinová, Olga (advisor)
The diploma thesis is focused on the problematics of urban pollution. Mainly on the impact of human activities and their consequences. Its main intention is to analyse an urban greenery system and its effect on the quality of life in both a positive and negative ways. Furthermore the diploma thesis researches the indicators of contamination, the sources of emission and their quantity at the location. The work comperes the individual indicators and the results of emission measuring. Then it proposes a suitable solution for better urban space planning with urban greenery.
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Změny v rychlosti pohybu chodců městským prostorem v závislosti na charakteru veřejného prostranství
Vašut, Radka ; Šimara (Horáková), Eva ; Kilnarová, Pavla
The aim of this paper is to compare the number of pedestrians in individual directions of street, the total number of pedestrians and the walking speed in three selected locations of the pedestrian zone in Brno’s historical centre. This will be done in order to verify the dependence of pedestrian walking speed on the character of the selected location. This article compares the acquisition of this data both empirically and by digital data collection using a data logger via a Wi-fi signal from the mobile phones of public space users. The outputs are presented as graphs comparing times and measured data from all case studies, complete with comparisons to the digital method.
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