INFORMACE O POSTUPU PRACÍ NA POLITICE ÚZEMNÍHO ROZVOJE STRUKTURA PROGRAMU ESPON BROWNFIELDS V PLZNI – TŘI LOKALITY, TŘI ODLIŠNÉ PŘÍSTUPYThe Pilsen Brownfields — Three Locations, Three Different Attitudes, by Milan Svoboda
After the dynamic development in the 1990s, Pilsen, the fourth largest city of the Czech Republic, is witnessing a shift from the exploitation of greenfields to the revitalization of old industrial and military zones within the urbanized area. A lot of locations evoke contemplations on their new use and look. One of the largest brownfields is the premises of the Škoda company, of some 200 hectares. Supported by the state, the new owner is carrying its vast reconstruction, transforming the area into a modern industrial zone. Other examples are two smaller areas, of 5 hectares each: a former military zone and the garage of the urban transport company. The barracks, previously a brewery, should become an open quarter of poly-functional application, with the most valuable buildings of the brewery preserved and newly used, while the garage, redesigned by the winners of EUROPAN, an international contest of architects, will become a residential and relax zone.
TRENDY ROZVOJE INDIVIDUÁLNÍ AUTOMOBILOVÉ DOPRAVY V ČRIndividual Transportation Development Trends in Czechia, by Karel Schmeidler
Transportation is Europe’s only industrial sector in which the emissions of greenhouse gases still could not be lowered. The enhanced technologies of petrol and diesel engines cannot compensate for the intensification of transportation, so that carbon dioxide emissions keep on the increase. Also, urban agglomerations suffer from high concentrations of solid particles, nitrogen oxides, and aromatic hydrocarbons, significantly affecting public health. One of the policies the European Commission is urging is to substitute some 20 % of conventional fuels by alternative ones: half of this should be covered by natural gas, one third by bio−fuels, while the rest is, optimistically, reserved for hydrogen. Unfortunately, the current global transportation policy does not seem to prefer environment−friendly means of transport to conventional cars with their thousands of tons of toxic emissions. The use of the means of transport, mainly in the highly urbanized and industrialized territories, will be increasingly under control, but their use with all the negative consequences will most probably escalate.
VESNICE ROKU 2005
VENKOV – JEHO PROMĚNY A ÚZEMNÍ PLÁNOVÁNÍ
