The aim of our project TL02000559, sponsored by Technological Agency of the Czech Republic, Prague, is to develop a new attitude to the mobility of our senior citizens in urban settings, more age ...sensitive and based on possibilities they have in relation to the urban green mobility. The source of the knowledge is the public participation in the form of questioning the elderly citizens to understand the real problems they face. The procedure is based on a redefinition of urban space and following revitalisation and remodelation of public spaces like streets, squares, parks and embankments. This includes reduction of unnecessary car traffic and environmental pollution and traffic accidents, where the elderly are the most endangered group. Nevertheless, it does not mean any reduction in the mobility of the elderly. Mobility of the elderly is a necessity for their quality of life and should be supported by the improvement of transport systems. This enables their inclusion in society. Green transport like walking, cycling, and public modes of transport like busses and tramways should be modernised and developed.
The InCities project was initiated to develop new attitudes to senior citizens’ mobility in urban settings so that they are more age-sensitive and based on increasing urban green mobility. The ...knowledge source came from answers to a public questionnaire circulated to elderly citizens, and the results enabled understanding of the real mobility problems that seniors face. The procedure is based on a redefinition of urban space and subsequent revitalisation and remodelling of streets, squares, parks, embankments and green public space. This includes reduced unnecessary car traffic and noise, environmental pollution and traffic accidents where elderly citizens are the most endangered group. This does not mean reduced mobility for the elderly, because improvement in these areas is essential for their quality of life, and this should be supported by age-appropriate transport systems. This then enables older citizens’ inclusion in society. Most importantly, green modes of transport should be modernised and further developed. The green transport mode includes walking, jogging, cycling and senior-friendly transport, especially on public trains, trams and buses.
This article describes housing trends in Czech Republic, which are determined by social, economic, technical and cultural changes of last two decades In Central Europe. Those trends have positive and ...also negative sides: positive can be seen the quantitative and qualitative growth of housing space, variety of architectural solutions for individualised customer. Negative aspect is urban sprawl, which together with individual automobile occupancy destroys nature, space and land values. Future development is inevitable, proper design of housing needs sensitive multidisciplinal attitude and understanding of the needs of man and nature.
Članek opisuje stanovanjske trende v Češki republiki. Določajo jih družbene, gospodarske, tehnične in kulturne spremembe, ki v zadnjih dveh desetletjih potekajo v srednji Evropi, in so hkrati ...pozitivni in negativni. Pozitivna trenda sta dvig količine ter kakovosti stanovanjskega prostora in raznolikost arhitekturnih rešitev za posamezne naročnike. Negativni trend pa je širitev urbanega prostora, ki skupaj s čedalje več avtomobili uničuje naravo ter prostor in manjša vrednost zemljišč. Razvoj je neizogiben, zato se je treba načrtovanja pokrivanja stanovanjskih potreb lotiti razumno in multidisciplinarno ter razumeti potrebe človeka in narave.
Architecture, buildings and all human settlements and transport systems should be created in a way that ensures a sustainable environment and satisfactory living-quality for all inhabitants. This can ...be achieved if a highly sensitive and human-focused attitude is established in the pre-design, design and construction phases and this is then maintained in all environmental and technical transport settings. Herein, we highlight the newest and the most sophisticated tools that human science and sociological development offer to architects and urban planners. This modern multidisciplinary approach will help create a human environment which secures satisfaction and good living-quality in the current artificial environment. Finally, we present the methods, procedures and techniques for obtaining essential environmentally-friendly information, and these include all useful tools, in-depth interviews, questionnaires and widespread focus groups.
Fenomén shrinking cities Schmeidler, Karel
Lidé města,
2014, Letnik:
16, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Classic approaches of urban planning are associated with the development of cities, with their growth, their increase and their enlargement, his, however, is no longer the norm. Current demographics ...show significant changes and movement in economic structures and in suburban areas, often leading to shrinking cities and to changes in their quality. This phenomenon, more and more regularly labelled as Urban Shrinkage, presents new challenges for urbanism theories and for urban planning. Are we ready to accept them? At the beginning of the 21st c entury, this phenomenon resulting in the shrinking of metropolises is generally spreading throughout Europe. One of the most difficult tasks for European urban planners in the near future will be successfully dealing with the results of the demographic, the economic and the physical processes of narrowing and planning smaller, yet still liveable future metropolises.
In the Czech Republic owning and utilising of a car is one of the best remedies against a diminishing of cruising radius in old age and a comfortable mean to sustain autonomy and independence of ...living as well as social relations. Physical handicaps and limits of the elderly could be compensated today by sophisticated technical solutions. Promotion of specialised driver-assistance systems in the cars and advancement of the demand for age relevant cars with high-tech-optimisation should be the remedy; It is expected that these technical means will be used to a far greater degree in the future for the purposes of preventing road accidents (active safety) and to reduce the impact of the road accidents that do occur (passive safety) to senior citizens. The use of telematic should help in preventing accidents. Technical development increasing the safety of vehicles for older passengers need not be the privilege of a few. It will be necessary to co-operate with manufacturers to ensure that technical innovations are available to all and attainable as soon as possible for a wide range of new vehicles. The possibilities for equipping older vehicles already on the roads with new technical means of prevention should also be investigated.
With changing attitudes and conditions the desire to travel for services, business and leisure represents a potential major new source of ideas for IVIS and ADAS designers and producers.
Senior drivers represent a potential major new source of ideas for IVIS and ADAS designers and producers. The telematic development including IVIS and ADAS designed to reduce traffic accidents and to support elderly drivers in a suitable and user-oriented way may be appropriate solution.
THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL MONUMENTS IN THE VALUATION CONTEX Vařechová, Martina; Brandejs, David; Hlavinková, Vítězslava ...
International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference : SGEM,
01/2021, Letnik:
21, Številka:
5.1
Conference Proceeding
The growing importance of a cultivated environment with a high population density was an incentive for the authors to find and compile a new, more sensitive sophisticated approach to the valuation of ...immovable cultural monument. Primarily, objects with significant historical and architectural value were examined, for which there was a high possibility of finding and defining suitable criteria with an impact on the valuation of real estate. The research focused on immovable cultural monuments located in the statutory city of Brno. Brno is an important cultural and historical center of Central Europe, including a privileged monument inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List - Villa Tugendhat. The correct data were used, especially from following institutions: the Monument Catalog of the National Monuments Institute, the Czech Geodesy and Land register Office, the Czech Statistical Office. The list of types of monuments is very diverse, from technical monuments through castles and devotional pillars. In focusing on the goal of the research, it was necessary to select a sufficiently large group of properties with the same use. In the selection, you can find both, listed and not listed buildings. This basic condition is best met by detached and apartment houses. In order to take into account, the qualitative parameters of an immovable cultural monument with a possible housing function, a comparison was made with the value of similar buildings without cultural significance. All 48 Brno cadastral areas were examined. In parallel with the classical methods of real estate valuation, the hedonic method will be used, which within the regressive analysis allows to find and quantify even intangible factors, which are undoubtedly part of the value of cultural monuments.
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