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In 2010 the municipality of Senigallia, located in Marche region (Italy),requested to thethe Department of Agricultural Sciences together with the Department of TerritorialPlanning of the Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna and in collaboration with four architects, two agronomists and communaltechnicians to draft the Green Masterplan (GM) of the city. Aim of the request was to promote a neat, homogeneous and sustainable development of the territory and improve the quality of life and the wellness of its inhabitants. ...

The development and growth of the autonomy of the regions implies an increase in their degree of recognition, related to the increase of international economic relations and trade. One of these options is a free economic zone, as a particular type of state (or private) regulation of international economic relations and trade. Free economic zones around the world must include free - commercial, port, economic, banking - or duty - free shops and warehouses. Generally, they are designed to stimulate industrial export...

In the era of ever-faster transformation of city space, people need a "green" oasis to rest, relax or improve health. The therapeutic effect of various forms of greenery is associated with the human healthiness. The feeling of spirituality during contact with green space in the metaphysical sense is also important. Green areas are both, a place for rest and contemplation (psychological aspect), as well as they improve concentration and physical condition, but also "refresh" the mind. Green areas are an integral pa...

Electrical lighting solutions affect the functioning of contemporary cites at a night-time. Urban lighting is associated with vision, provision of information and security as well as with the intelligent technologies. The amount, the appearance of light and its setup can significantly affect human behaviours and contribute tomajor spatial changes. This article verifies how emerging lighting technologies correspond with a design of the built environmentand how they may improve the robustness and resilience of a con...

In the context of an increased traffic volume and number of pedestrians on the streets and roads, we can observe an increase in the number of road traffic accidents involving road users, particularly children and adolescents. Children and adolescents get involved in road traffic accidents mainly due to ignorance of the rules of safe behavior on the streets and roads or traffic violations, as they do not comprehend the consequences of these violations. Therefore, it is very important to develop a sense of disciplin...

Construction of various types of buildings and engineering structures invariably interferes, although to different degrees, with the surrounding environment. Every development project is executed in a strictly delineated area and under specific conditions. While planning a construction project, the investor is obligated to analyze several variants of its execution, including an assessment of different effects it may have on the environment. The investor can evaluate the impact on the surrounding ecosystems, in its...

In history of architecture and urban planning, there are examples of theoretical projects that had much higher impact on history of building construction art than actual buildings realized by authors of such theoretical projects. During 10th Architecture Biennale in Venice, in 2006, Italian architects presented an original concept of city VEMA, located near Verona and Mantua, positioned on a cross axis along Lisbon–Kiev and Berlin–Palermo line. The model of the ideal city that has crystalized in theoretical ar...

The aim of the article is to study ways of the implementation of the strategy of the economic diversification in countries – major oil exporters. It is well-known that the expansion of non-oil sources of added value is the main guideline of the economic diversification and decreasing the dependency on oil revenues in the developing countries – oil exporters. Many economists recommend to such states rapid privatization and reduction of the government participation in the economy as almost the only way of the di...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 societiesВ’ exposure to flood hazards in time, space, and their vulnerability. The...

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 RadiВљa watercourse (...

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...

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...

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 ZabytkГіw), 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...

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 ...

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 KrГЎlovГ© and Pardubice. The main goals of urban policy are based on the id...

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 HandlovГЎ and municipalities of RГЎzto?no and Cige? which are located in Western Slovakia. The...