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Development of the cities in the early post-socialism. The impact of the liberalization in the nineties of the 20th century to the planned development of socialist modernism
Sedlák, Jaroslav ; Kováč, Bohumil (referee) ; Wittmann, Maxmilian (referee) ; Kopáčik, Gabriel (advisor)
Housing estate quarters of urban structures, that have been built in the period of socialism, currently suffer from the necessary urban transformations and neoplasms. While both here and in many other countries of the former Soviet satellites, is a form of housing estates and their development tied by regulations and "economic players" who determine the radical architectural or urban design changes, in areas of the former Soviet Union is the current form of housing units resulted by unguided architectural and urban interventions. Though in many cases, the expansive examples that are bordering with so called "folk art", we can observe on them the functional principles of "urbanity". They may represent a potential for future design and development of housing estates in the Czech Republic. The thesis will thematize the process of using bloc-of-flats areas in Czech republic as well as in economically low powerful countries, namely Moldova and Georgia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, while new economic system has destroyed the original urban structure so called mikrorajon, with the development of small individualism the private sector has changed the form of the city housing estate. The total economic collapse and lack of spatial regulation began to offer an accessible alternative housing and place to do business. We can discover kiosks and gradually expanding parterres of real urban type. At the same time we can see new front of street responding to space reserves and distance, as well as appearance of vertical streets inside the houses. The construction itself is no longer just a place for living, but many flats are used as offices and small businesses. Services are developed and the total value of diversity of the environment begins to grow rapidly. Typical monotony of housing units is starting to fade and transformed into a network monitoring the needs of the population. Thus the periphery offer a distinctive part of the city.
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Influence of large-scale urban projects on neighbourhood transformation: the case of Nový Smíchov and Smíchovské train station
Šrámek, Vít ; Petrovic, Adél (advisor) ; Špačková, Petra (referee)
This paper focuses on the urban transformation processes in Smíchov and how they influence the physical condition of housing stock there. Only some of the neighborhoods of Prague were analyzed when it comes to gentrification or other urban transformation processes, and even fewer have had their housing stock monitored. This paper then tries to fill a part of this gap. Academic and field research were carried out, and field research analyzing the spatial distribution and physical condition of the housing stock surrounding the two selected case studies in the neighborhood. The results show that the monitored areas around Nový Smíchov and Smíchov train station are generally in good condition with some room for improvement and a few modern building clusters. Based on the condition of the analysis of the housing stock, I answer the research questions: 1) What is the current state of the neighborhood? 2) How did it change in the last (approx. 20 years)? 3) What is the new dominating aesthetic?, 4) What are the possible predictions for the neighborhood's future development?, 5) Who are the main stakeholders influencing these changes, and what does their involvement imply? and draw conclusions, as well as present an actor's map. The actor's maps serve as a great way to capture the relationships behind the...
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