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Homes by avant-garde architects, created in the interwar period, featured empty, uncluttered rooms, strictly functional objects, lightweight machine-made furniture which would not take up too much space, everything not serving a practical purpose was removed. There was no place for purely decorative objects in small interiors. The prospective residents not always liked the idea as demonstrated by the spectacular failure of Le Corbusier’s Pessac project reflecting its resident’s lack of understanding of modern arch...

The paper focuses on analyzing and evaluating the potential of small and medium-sized towns with emphasis on tourism, cultural heritage and cultural landscape in contact with the Danube River. Small and medium-sized towns located outside the main urbanisation centers and the main urbanisation axes need impulses to ensure their social and economic development and attraction. For these cities it is important to evaluate their cultural and landscape potential, which they have but however, it is still under-utilised a...