In Prague, a platform called Urbanism Inventory has been created

Prague - This weekend, a platform named Urbanism Inventory was created at the Institute of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Czech urban planners feel that it is necessary to take another step in their field. They also see that the pressure from the public dissatisfied with the quality of the Czech landscape, cities, and countryside is increasing. Therefore, urban planners want to offer assistance in defining what constitutes a beautiful environment for living. Jan Jehlík and Roman Koucký from the Faculty of Architecture at CTU presented the platform's vision to journalists today.
    The platform was created on the occasion of a conference for urban planners and architects that took place at CTU from Friday to Sunday. Urban planners want to open the platform for the exchange of ideas and the formulation of positions regarding the creation of public space.
    "This platform is a revolution in Czech urbanism," Jehlík told ČTK. Urbanism as a field of study within architecture has existed for about 100 years. However, among architects and urban planners, there can still be felt a certain contradiction. According to the conference attendees, urbanism has long been perceived among architects as something rather marginal. Only in the last few years, they say, has student interest in this field significantly increased.
    According to Jehlík, the emergence of the platform can also be understood as a certain "coming out" of the field, a realization of its own identity, a glimpse into oneself. "It is a kind of renaissance of the field," Jehlík added.
    The aim of the platform is to achieve good urbanism through cultural dialogue. Urban planners want to write articles even more than before, meet with politicians and officials, and jointly seek better solutions for urban planning. They consider communication with state and local governance to be blocked. One of the platform's first tasks will be to create an understandable urban planning vocabulary to facilitate communication between experts and the public.
    Urban planners and architects are concerned about the current wording of the building law from 2006, which returns to a regulatory and rather rigid principle of creating urban zoning plans. According to urban planners, plan creation should be much more open and should have clearer and defined responsibilities.