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Dynamic residential building development has observed over the recent years. It is related to increasing wealth of the society and change of the common housing model. The trend of inflow of rural population to cities is reversed, and more and more people search for a place of residence in suburban areas. Individual housing investments are characterised by a great amount of freedom in terms of both form and location. Therefore, the occurring changes lead to uncontrolled sprawl of building development known as “urba...

The European Commission has announced that Year 2018 is the European Year of Cultural Heritage /EYCH/. The undertaken activities are to boost the awareness of citizens as well as governments in terms of the creation of collective memory and identity of Europeans. The Commission’s assumption is the “abolition of borders”, or stepping beyond the territory of a given state or region and getting to know cultural heritage as the common good, fostering social integration. 600 years of history of the Radziwi??s, one of E...

The objective of the article is to present the issue of legislative incohesion between the spatial policy of the commune and issued administrative decisions, based on a specific case study. The implementation of the spatial policy included in the Study of the preconditions and guidelines of spatial development of the commune is only possible by means of local plans of spatial development. In the case of their lack, administrative decisions are issued which are not necessarily (and often are not) in accordance with...

Is it possible to learn more from the fact that cities are subject to scaling laws, than just about their complexity? It is often pointed out that along with the increase in size, some important characteristics of cities do not grow linearly but exponentially - in some cases - as in the case of infrastructure development - with an exponent smaller than one; and in some, as in the case of residents' income - with an exponent greater than one. This means that larger cities use the acquired resources more effectively...

The Vistula Delta is unique region of water domination. In this part of Europe, historic rural assumptions have been developing since the 12th century. Practically, it can be said that most of the systems were related to the coexistence of the human and the water element. Relations of water and land, developed specific types of villages such as a water-based village. Water landscape; polders, canals, dikes and rivers, hydro-technical constructions and drainage windmills were similar to Friesland in the Netherlands...

This paper considers error mechanics in architectural translation and representations. The investigation is based on two examples. First situation describes Italian architect Giacomo Leoni and published by him in instalments the first complete English language edition of Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, which Leoni entitled The Architecture of A. Palladio, in Four Books. Leoni’s publication became a main tool in spreading the essence of Palladio’s style among British and American architects. Original ...

Intercity bus communication is the most important component of local transportation in the Russian Federation. Over the past twenty years its importance in providing passenger transportation has increased immensely. The reason for this is the degradation of other means of transport and related infrastructure. Since 1990 the number of airports in Russia has decreased more than fourfold: from 1450 to 315, most of the closed airports served local transportation. Suburban rail service is unprofitable in most regions, ...

Damages and losses caused by floods have been on the rise in Upper Vardar River Basin (Polog Region) over the past few years. The entire river basin experiences dramatic variations in water flows over time, and the risk of floods is also exacerbated by the basin’s mountainous topography and land structure. Human factors are also at work. Changing land use and land cover – for example, through cultivation or construction in high-risk zones, rapid urbanization and heightened erosion from logging in forests – are alt...

Development of cultural landscape is a continuous long lasting process combining both natural conditions and human society activities. Whilst formation of natural environment was a result of processes in remote geological eras, stabilisation of cultural, social and production relationships that has shaped the face of cultural landscape happened in last few centuries. The paper is focused on a long-term development of the selected Slovak cultural landscape types (plains, basins, uplands, highlands, and mountains) i...

This paper refers to the implementation of urban principles and the principles of sustainable development into the established policies of Czech Republic development, as significant tools of territorial planning as such. Urban policy represents a conceptual and purposeful activity of a public authority focused on the development of cities. In this case, it involves a biocentric agglomeration, whose centres are the regional cities of Hradec Králové and Pardubice. The main goals of urban policy are based on the iden...

The article focuses on analysis of the innovation environment of regions in Central Europe, using the example of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Our own research is based on data of NUTS II and the construction of an aggregate indicator, which maps key economic, labour market and innovative indicators relevant for describing the innovative potential of the regions. The main sources of data were Eurostat and national statistics offices in selected countries. Metropolitan regions have a higher inno...

In many countries housing systems are in transition towards privatization, deregulation and decentralization of public tasks. These transformations in institutional and economic context have led to a more market-oriented social housing management. Public housing system in Poland is based on a local government-dominated social rented sector in which the social landlords' functions are in the vast majority filled directly with municipalities. These entities integrate the functions of local authorities with the role ...

The transport infrastructure, mainly then its range and quality, is very important pro the economic development of the national economy. However its extension, operation and maintenance are connected with the important need of financial resources, which are in all cases limited. From this reason it is very important to respect not only national priorities in the area of the development of the transport infrastructure, but also expected net benefit of particular projects for the whole society. The main purpose of t...

Landscape stability cannot be absolute because no living system in the landscape can be totally unchanged. Partial changes inside the landscape and changes in the whole landscape are directly related to the type of stability in a particular landscape component and to the spatial structure of the landscape. Stable patches represent areas that are identically used during the whole studied period. The aim of the paper is to analyze land use changes and landscape stability in a small catchment of Radiša watercourse (W...

Runaway increase of prices for combustive-lubricating materials, mineral fertilizers, agricultural machines, intensification of competition between commodity producers of livestock products require new approaches in the issues of forage production at low cost, including the productivity of hayfields and pastures subject to variability of habitat of plants inside fields. In this regard, article discusses promising areas of application of GIS technologies in agriculture, which allows to solve topical issues of agric...

Ever increasing demands on the complexity of modern buildings considerably increase the pressure to improve efficiency in terms of time and quality. In spite of its importance, there has not been sufficient emphasis placed on the project management research yet, but only on project management in general. An effective method for project management is to ensure the planned management of the whole process. All requirements of the project shall be pre-processed, as planned in terms of design and realization. Therefore...

Currently slope protection is a serious and important issue, but one which is very often overlooked in urban public spaces especially in Poland. Although the site selected for this case study, Warsaw slope, is protected by the Warsaw Provincial Heritage Monuments Protection Office (Polish: Sto?eczny Konserwator Ochrony Zabytków), there is no consensus as to its revitalization via the use of stabilization projects. Additionally, Warsaw slope is being progressively and continuously destroyed by erosion and the poor ...

Agri-farms of Tatarstan Republic (Russian region) have a positive dynamics of development and stably take its place among the first four constituents of the Russian Federation. Having cultivated 2.3% of agricultural lands in Russia, Tatarstan provides 4.7% of agricultural production, in the amount of 188.8 billion rubles. Agricultural sector becomes profitable, and begins to entice such a great investors as "Krasny Vostok Agro", "Kulonstroy", "Zolotoy Kolos", "Tatfondbank", "Agrosila Group", et al., who invest mul...

The purpose of this publication is to present a set of strategies, based on the lessons learned from the devastating flood that occurred on 19 of June 2014 in Asparuhovo district to the city of Varna, Bulgaria to improve flood resilience of local people. For this purpose, a methodological approach based on the concepts of risk and risk management at the catchment level is applied. The first concept presents risk as the result of the societies’ exposure to flood hazards in time, space, and their vulnerability. The ...

Landscape development is a long-term process influenced by many factors. It is primarily affected by human society and its impact is constantly growing which is also reflected in natural processes. Spatial heterogeneity is considered one of the decisive factors of biodiversity as well as ecological stability. The aim of the paper is an analysis and assessment of land use changes and landscape heterogeneity in the town of Handlová and municipalities of Rázto?no and Cige? which are located in Western Slovakia. The s...