On Friday, November 30, 2018, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, the 9th annual working and program conference organized by the Institute of Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague will take place on current topics in the fields of urbanism, planning, design, and building settlements.


This year's conference will address significant phenomena and attributes that create a complex set of heritage values in the context of urban entities. The starting idea is the concept of the city as an indivisible continuum, where each scale layer carries appropriate meanings. On one side, there are architectural objects and their parts; on the other side, urban objects and their parts; it is merely one environment viewed from two scale levels. The urban perspective primarily arises from examining the entirety of a municipality, i.e., a defined area of both built and unbuilt territory. It is precisely within this framework that this year's conference and concurrent research examine the relationships between heritage-protected sites (reservations and zones) and the whole.


The conference and concurrent workshops are part of a five-year NAKI II project "Origins and Attributes of Heritage Values of Historical Cities in the Czech Republic," being developed by the Faculty of Architecture at CTU in Prague and the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The project's goal is to "create tools and methodologies to determine the basic elements of the complex identity of historical cities in the Czech Republic for the identification and protection of their heritage values, especially their public spaces and very valuable evidence of creative medieval location."

Sections:

1 - Legal issues of care and protection of historical settlements.

2 - Urban dimension of heritage protection.

3 - Locations, founding, and delineation of cities.

4 - Everyday life in the historical environment of cities.



Organizing Committee:
prof. Ing. arch. Jan Jehlík / Ing. arch. Tomáš Drdácký / PhDr. JUDr. Jiří Plos / Ing. arch. Jana Zdráhalová / PhD. / Ing. arch. Vít Rýpar

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