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Petržalka - a sustainable city
Pružincová, Mária ; Pech, Zbyněk (referee) ; Kopáčik, Gabriel (advisor)
The entire world is trying to achieve carbon neutrality. Mitigation measures and carbon footprint compensations are the top topics of political summits in a developed society. However, if we want to think about future generations, we must talk about sustainability. How can we achieve carbon neutrality in a sustainable way, so that the steps we take have a long-term positive impact and are not just temporary patches on a leaky system? We have long known that it is not enough to install solar panels on roofs. It is not enough to build new neighbourhoods based on a modern low-emission principle. We must primarily focus on the development of what we have already built and into which we have already invested a considerable amount of energy and resources. Panel housing estates are a specific settlement structure that has become an integral part of the image of the cities in our region. Prefabrication resulted in typified elements and objects that are their characteristic manifestation, but each housing estate also has its unmistakable specifics. The development of Petržalka was unregulated for a long time. While new neighbourhoods with thousands of new residents were emerging on the periphery, the development of the inner city, with a few exceptions, stagnated. This area hides the greatest potential. Discussions about the fate of panel housing estates have shifted from radical humanisation through their sanitation to the preservation of their architectural values. Today we must move even further. In times of climate crisis and resource scarcity, it is essential to also think about sustainability and reducing global warming. The Sustainable Development Manual aims to create a set of measures that will lead the Petržalka locality Dvory IV to environmentally and socially sustainable development. The proposed measures are the result of analytical work based on qualitative research and a search of professional literature. The cornerstone of the manual is the identification of the problems of the area under consideration. I defined the problems based on observations and interviews with residents in situ. To gain a deeper perspective in solving the identified problems, I discussed with experts whose specialisation is related to the given topic.
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