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.
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.
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.
Fenomén shrinking cities Schmeidler, Karel
Lidé města,
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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.
Arena urbanističnega znanja Ledvinkova-Simpson, Milena; Schmeidler, Karel
Urbani izziv,
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COST Action C20 – Urban Knowledge Arena je raziskovalni program evropskega programa znanstvenih in tehnoloških raziskav COST. Usklajujeta ga COST Office in Evropska znanstvena fundacija (ESF). ...Poglavitni cilj tega projekta, imenovanega Urban Knowledge Arena (Arena urbanističnega znanja), je raziskati in razviti evropsko prizorišče za mednarodno združitev znanja in izkušenj o zapletenih urbanističnih vprašanjih.
S projektom COST Domain Transport and Urban Development (Področje prevoza in urbanega razvoja COST) želijo sodelujoči razvijati dejavnosti znanstvenikov in strokovnjakov, ki se v mednarodni raziskovalni mreži ukvarjajo s prevoznimi sistemi in prevozno infrastrukturo, s prostorskim načrtovanjem, rabo in razvojem urbanih zemljišč, urbanističnim oblikovanjem, arhitekturo, oblikovanjem in z vprašanji gradbeništva. Projekt se posveča multi- in interdisciplinarnim pristopom, s katerimi bi rad zajel osnovne in aplikativne raziskovalne dejavnosti in njihove spremembe, ki so pomembne za oblikovanje politike in procesov odločanja. Velika pozornost je posvečena tudi dejavnostim, ki proučujejo nove raziskovalne potrebe in razvoj.
COST Action C20 – Urban Knowledge Arena is research programme supported by European Co-operation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research. It is co-ordinated by COST Office and European ...Science Foundation. The main objective of this Action is to explore and develop a European Arena for cross boundary, integrated knowledge and Know-how on complex urban problems, which is termed Urban Knowledge Arena. The COST Domain Transport and Urban Development aims at fostering international research networking activities of scientist and experts dealing with transport systems and infrastructures, spatial planning, urban land use and development, urban design, architecture and design and civil engineering issues. The focus is on multi and interdisciplinary approaches and the aim is to cover both basic and applied research activities and their changeovers that are relevant to policy and decision making processes. A significant concern is devoted to activities exploring new research needs and developments.
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