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The creation of public spaces is currently quite conditioned by the impact of the idea of sustainable mobility and efforts to improve the environment in urban spaces. On the one hand, there are ideas and thoughts for improving public spaces, on the other hand, outdated legislation prevents these ideas from being sufficiently implemented. One of the most important elements for changing the division of transport work in urban conditions and thus improving the perception and appearance of public spaces is to increase...

The land use in Latvia is regulated by a number of regulatory documents, that determine the requirements for property development planning and design. Real estates with a certain composition have been formed, which have defined purposes of real estate use and types of land use, which determine the development possibilities of the territory. Today, many fruit growing companies in Latvia have established a stable production base. Although many farms are getting good harvests, the owners still want to develop orchard...

The research, which is carried out in cooperation with the Technical University of Liberec, the Klokner Institute of the Czech Technical University in Prague and the company Cervenka Consulting s.r.o., deals with the use of 3D printing of cement composites in architecture and construction. The research develops original equipment for 3D printing of mixtures with cement-based binders, including the original design of printing mixtures and original software for printing data processing and machine control. The ambit...

The inclusion of greenery in spatial planning has an irreplaceable function. Not only do these areas fulfill an aesthetic function in otherwise monotonous areas of villages and towns, but they also significantly affect the quality of life of local citizens. These are primarily areas that provide a space for people to meet in a pleasant green environment and, thus, an opportunity to relax and recharge their batteries as a result of the positive effect of greenery on the human psyche. At the same time, green areas s...

In the last time there is an open dialog among scientists, economists, engineers, politicians, as well as city councils and municipalities, about future plans for urban development by considering green real estate for shaping sustainable cities. Applying the concept of sustainable development concretely means to develop and apply local strategies, not only in technology, and economy, but also in environmental and social fields, by considering sustainability requirements. In this regard it is obvious that mindset c...

The awareness and attitudes of stakeholders are crucial for the development of green roofs and green walls. The aim of this article is to analyze the awareness, opinions and attitude of respondents from Sofia, Bulgaria regarding green roofs and green walls, as well as the willingness to pay (WTP) for these types of green infrastructure. A direct consumer survey was conducted, containing 17 questions regarding sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents, awareness/opinions about green roofs and green walls ...

Along with pedestrian traffic, urban cycling is an ecological, social way of moving that does not generate pollution or noise and is good for health. In this context, more attention should be paid to the design of cycling infrastructure - because if we want more cyclists on city streets, then we need to provide them with adequate, fast and safe infrastructure. Infrastructure works for cycles must not affect spaces intended for pedestrians but must be located in the space used by motorized means of transport, aimin...

Nature-based Solutions is an umbrella concept, gaining traction in recent years. It implies working with nature in order to simultaneously address multiple challenges humanity faces today, including biodiversity loss, climate change, food and energy insecurity. Nature-based Solutions are being applied across landscape types, including urban, rural, forest and protected areas. Combining nature-based solutions with landscape design, however, has predominantly been considered in cities. However, there is a great pote...

The paper deals with the current state and development of smart cities in the Czech Republic in the context of sustainable mobility and transport and the improvement of the quality of life inhabited by small-scale cities. Today, cities are exposed to many challenges and are looking for new efficient transport solutions that will ease existing infrastructure, improve public space, and promote sustainable modes of transport. The growth of individual car traffic has caused numerous social conflicts and environmental ...

In recent years, the whole world has been looking for the most suitable solution to deal with global warming and other environmental consequences caused mainly by anthropogenic activities. One of the potential problematic phenomena at present is urbanization, which subsequently has an impact on the enlargement of urban or suburban areas at the expense of green areas. Vertical vegetation systems are part of the blue-green sustainable infrastructure and have become increasingly popular in recent years. With the righ...

Procedural techniques are used to generate 3D models, textures, images, and effects. Procedural modelling is widely used in areas such as architecture, archeology, and video games, and is based on a series of rules and algorithms. Computer-generated architecture (CGA) is a set of rules that software uses to automatically generate models. This paper describes the process of creating three models using CGA rules and procedural modelling. The models were created using the free Blender software and the geometry nodes ...

Pedestrian roads in the Czech Republic are currently designed following the valid Czech technical standard CSN 73 6110 entitled "Design of local roads". According to this standard, the width of sidewalks is designed according to the speed, intensity, and current density of pedestrians, ie in a very similar way to the design of roads for motor vehicles. However, the vast majority of small towns do not have processed field measurements that determine the relevant values, so they only propose the minimum width of sid...

The building sector accounts for approximately 40% of energy consumption and 36% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Renovation and reconstruction are two of the main strategies to mitigate the energy use of existing building heritage and take action at the urban scale. Starting from GIS data concerning an Italian case study of the second half of the 20th century, a scenario-based analysis approach was taken to evaluate the energy savings of seven different renovation and reconstruction scenarios. The proposed meth...

One of the major themes of sustainable urban development is adaptation to climate change through the protection, maintenance of existing and creation of new green spaces. In the design areas of the municipal master plan, green spaces are designated for specific ecosystem services, which can be divided into 4 basic categories of regulating, cultural, productive, and supporting services related to biodiversity. Thus, green spaces affect human well-being and can serve as a benchmark to assess the quality of human lif...

Investment projects aimed at brownfield revitalization have significant potential for the economic development of the area where they are located. Such a project usually removes old environmental burdens or deals with a problem with non-functional or dilapidated buildings. However, an appropriately set investment plan which respects internal territorial economic connections as well as the character of surrounding environment can provide solutions to other regional problems or implement economically beneficial acti...

Not only with the constant development in the field of building materials and new construction technologies, but also currently with the advent of the energy crisis caused by the state of war in Ukraine, there is an increasing emphasis on sustainable architecture. Sustainable architecture is based on the concept of increasing the efficiency and modernization of buildings, but at the same time it tries to reduce or completely minimize the negative consequences of these buildings, which, for example, are associated ...

Housing and sustainable living are two main preoccupations for architects onward with tracking the purpose of housing to meet people-s need of shelter and the purpose for healthy lifestyle. Achieving the first purpose considers the impact scale on the natural environment and on the social and community dimensions. The second purpose views the relation to nature through building techniques and materials, spaces, and the living context. Saxon settlements from Transylvania are analyzed to identify the model of living...

While comprehensive legislative frameworks may exist, the sustainable management of construction and demolition waste has proven challenging, especially for countries where environmental maturity may be still lacking. Recognizing the great potential for recycling and reusing CDW materials, Cypriot researchers are developing a new green building facade material using recycled materials. However, the market success of such a material is highly dependent on sound management and on stakeholders- acceptance, hence the ...

Urbanization represents a process in a continuous dynamic and which appeared through the concentration of a population in a certain space. Its expansion was achieved by increasing the population of a certain territory, growth based on different factors such as migration, natural growth, the transformation of some rural areas into urban areas or the expansion of rural towns. Together with these phenomena, the population is faced with atmospheric pollution, the increasingly acute housing crisis and waste management,...

The leading material property of concrete that has the greatest influence on its service life and therefore sustainability depends primarily on the method of loading of the structure and the characteristics of the environment in which it is supposed to fulfill its function. The motivation of this study is the prediction of chloride ingress in time into the concrete specimens using a 1D analytical model implemented in probabilistic software FReET-D. This estimation is directly used for prediction of the time necess...

Green infrastructure in urban environments of world-s large cities is becoming an important factor in adapting to climate change e.g., in the form of green walls or green roofs. However, it is important to note that positive effect in the urban climate can be achieved also by the application and combination of multiple green infrastructure elements. Finding suitable strategies to plant greenery in very dense urban areas is not only a problem of today, but also a challenge for the future sustainable cities and thei...

The current paper presents the way of carrying out the topographical works combined with the design of the redevelopment of a recreation park in a crowded urban area of the municipality of Timisoara. The aim of the work was to create a topographical plan using the AutoCad, and Autodesk Map programs in order to draw up the architectural landscape redevelopment plan. The multitude of the block of flats located in the Calea Girocului neighborhood, makes the lack of green spaces acutely felt by the residents. For this...

Several types of transport integrates transit nodes. Transit nodes are located in built-up areas, inside cities or on the outskirts of cities, urban agglomerations. Transit nodes are an important part of public passenger transport. The article is about transit nodes on the regional railway line between Bratislava and Dunajska Streda. The transit nodes are the railway stations on this line. Intercepting parking lots are part of the transit nodes outside large cities. It is important to compare travel times from sou...

The article deals with the issues of a significant excess of the potential demographic load over the demographic capacity of the forests of the Cheboksary city district. Some ways of solving this problem are proposed.

With this article, the author will try to outline the relationship between environmental urbanism, the urban economy and policies to build sustainable cities of the future. Given that worldwide attention is being paid to the problems of climate change, which go hand in hand with the creation of sustainable architecture, which uses green technologies to build a modern city, where the application of the environmental approach is seen as a means of healing and planning the modern city of the future. The emerging tren...

The problem of the environment is becoming more and more pressing. The economic evolution of the world has led on the one hand to wellbeing, but on the other hand, has not taken into account Natural Resources. Sustainable development is on the agenda of all countries and represents a challenge for a return to green values. The European Union has sustainable development as one of its priorities. However, all this is not possible without proper education. The EU and national governments have set clear targets to gui...

In accordance with the principles of sustainable development, people have the right to live in a healthy, comfortable, and pleasant environment that is adapted to their needs. Not only urban planners, urban engineers, or developers, but the whole society are starting to deal with the issue of public space in cities more intensively. However, most of the discussions mainly concern the height and density of buildings within the city and do less about the resulting changes in urban space, which will affect the entire...

One of the tasks defined in the basic principles of sustainable building construction is to ensure a quality indoor environment and the health and wellbeing of the building’s users. Especially in the current epidemiological period, people spend more than 90% of their time indoors. In almost every indoor environment (IE), there is a certain number of ornamental houseplants. In most cases, these are ornamental plants with leaves or flowers. These plants give us aesthetic impressions and improve the well-being of bui...

The story of the evolving development of urban-landscape theory, planning, and design is like the evolving perceptions and advancing knowledge in mathematics, anthropology, geography, and ecology. In the mid-90s, the theory of landscape urbanism appeared in the West, according to which the structure of cities is determined by landscape factors more than architecture. Landscape urbanism describes "the ability to produce urban planning effects traditionally achieved through the construction of buildings, simply thro...

Buildings consume a large quantity of energy owing to their constant operation and long lifespan. Building-energy simulations are an important element of the decision-making process because they allow designers to examine the energy and comfort effects of various building design alternatives. In hot and arid climate conditions, cooling tends to dominate building thermal energy use. Cooling loads can be reduced through the adoption of efficient building envelope materials. This study investigates the optimal thickn...

The UNESCO Global Geopark network is expanding. Geoparks are intended to play important roles in sustainable development. For this to happen, new sites geopark establishment need to be carefully evaluated. In addition, protection and maintenance of heritage and sustainability within established geoparks requires effective monitoring. Modern geographic information system (GIS) technologies have a lot to offer for effective landscape-scale assessments and monitoring of geo park territories. However, little attention...

Green roofs can provide a number of benefits in urban areas, including mitigation of heat islands, reduction of urban air pollution, CO2 sequestration, noise reduction, water retention, absorption of pollutants in rainwater runoff, acid rain buffering, etc. The aim of the study is to map the land cover and assess some of the potential benefits of retrofitting green roofs in a residential area in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The survey covers Yuzhen (South) Quarter, with an area of 31.33 ha. According to the General Developm...

The future of the energy industry has been one of the most important problems in both domestic and world politics for many years. This is due to the legal conditions relating directly to the energy sector, resulting from the climate and energy policy focused on actions in the field of climate protection. Poland is a unique country in comparison to other European Union countries, the energy balance of which mainly, because in over 86% of the electricity produced, comes from hard coal and lignite. This unique and un...

At present, there is no uniform method that would use quantitative factors to evaluate the quality of public spaces. Most analyses are subject to the subjective opinion of the processor and cannot be applied to different territories. The work is devoted to the analysis of the quality of public spaces by creating a multicriteria evaluation taking into account transport, safety, environmental, economic and social impacts. Using multicriteria evaluation methods using purely quantitative data, it is possible to create...

The paper focuses on updating the results of partial steps associated with the socio-economic evaluation of public projects in the field of transport, specifically railway infrastructure. The article builds on the research results presented within previous scientific articles where the unit impacts of sub-categories of occurrences on the Czech railways were determined using a detailed Database of Occurrences for the 2011-2018 period. Within the research work of the project "Evaluation of Increased Safety and Relia...

Global warming is a dangerous phenomenon caused by anthropogenic environmental pollution. Renewable energy sources (RES) contribute to minimizing CO2 emissions. At the 26th meeting of the conference of the Parties (COP26), goals to reduce net emissions were set as soon as possible. At the same time, the European Commission has set the goal of achieving zero net emissions by 2050. Thermal transformation of conventional energy carriers causes the depletion of natural resources, the formation of secondary waste, and ...

Cadastre and Land Registry for Alba County in relation to the other counties of our country. Alba County is made up of 78 administrative territorial units, in which, within the framework of the programme, systematic registration works are carried out, both at cadastral sector and at ATU level. The works have been and continue to be financed from the own revenues of the National Agency for Cadastre and Real Estate Advertising (ANCPI), through the Office for Cadastre and Real Estate Advertising (OCPI) of Alba, but a...

Urban agriculture has become increasingly topical in recent years due to both social trends and challenges of sustainable development. Although functions of the urban agriculture, especially economic and social, have been widely explored since the 1990s, the focus is mostly on regions where urban agriculture practices are strategies for survival and basic food security or on highly metropolitan cities, with little focus on countries and cities with a relatively medium or even low population density, thus excluding...

Landscape design and land art are usually associated with professional activity of designers and artists. However, implementation of landscape design projects and creation of land art objects may be achieved by efforts of regular citizens. Involvement in landscape decoration activities may create high level of participant engagement. This both landscape design and land art may be used for achievement of community engagement in achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Involvement of individu...

The article focuses on the Landscape Architect profession and the competencies that a person must have in order to be able to conduct research and analyses of green areas, organizing the space optimally, making informed management decisions and finding economically sound solutions. A landscape architect possesses specialized knowledge and skills that are directly involved in designing and managing the green infrastructure and its various components. The importance of this profession is undoubted in the process of ...

The article provides data on the use of medicinal plants in landscaping of the Steppe zone of Ukraine, special attention is paid to the creation of a rock garden. Medicinal plants have been widely used by man throughout his entire existence. Today, scientists are very interested in this group of plants due to the emergence of a pandemic caused by the deadly COVID-19 virus. It has been established that the phytochemicals of these plants are potential drugs against this virus. When creating a rock garden from herbac...

Main pedestrian lines and nodes in urban structures need to be penetrated with water and greenery for the transformation into vital and ecological public spaces. The context of water and greenery provides to public spaces flow of landscape and flow of natural elements through the major arteries and meeting places of the city. Our research on the Danube riverfront in Bratislava and its recreational hinterland focused on implementing greening of the area, the zone in contact with the river, landscape modelling, and ...

Disasters bring about sudden changes to life, the environment and nature; fundamentally altering landscapes and thus also influencing the history, culture, traditions and environmental perspectives of the regions in which they occur. This study aimed to investigate the ways in which a landscape is treated and changed in the process of recovery from a large scale earthquake and to examine the introduction of green infrastructure during this recovery process. To achieve this, we set two specific research objectives....

At present the traffic lights are common part of the road intersections. This type of traffic control has many advantages: increase in traffic safety, clearly defined driving preference, increase in intersection capacity etc. On the other hand the intersections with traffic lights can show also some disadvantages, for example wrong behaviour of road participants, problem with traffic flow continuity, often due to wrong signal program, traffic volumes or geometric and building parameters of intersection, economic a...

In the 1920 accrued one vehicle per one thousand inhabitants, in 1960 twenty cars per thousand inhabitants, and today it is 400 cars per 1000 inhabitants. The population and the numbers of vehicles increase causes a lot of economical and environmental problems, not only in Czech Republic but in the whole world. Today, parking is considered as a big problem for many reasons. The reasons are the numbers of inhabitants and numbers and size of vehicles increase, restricted parking spaces, traffic jams on roads, the lo...

The reason for the creation of playgrounds was the effort to get playing children off the city streets where they could get injured due to increasing car traffic. More than 160 years have passed since, and the playgrounds have gradually been transformed according to the needs of the time. Denser traffic, and generally a sense of greater discomfort among strangers, have increased demands on finding ways how to satisfy all the needs of the children with their escort. With the development of transportation, the feeli...

The article deals with the issue of the current situation of blocks of flats in the Czech Republic and in more detail in the statutory city of Brno and its surroundings. The issue of housing is a very current topic for the Czech Republic. Significant excess of demand for housing over the current supply is reflected, among other things, in the ever-rising real estate prices. In the introductory part, the paper deals with the development of forms of housing and flat ownership in the Czech Republic (state and municip...

Construction creates environment for the use of the latest knowledge and trends in the field of smart and innovative solutions. One of the areas where it is possible and appropriate to use innovative approaches is the area of construction in the preparatory and construction phase. The construction site presents a constantly changing, dynamic place that is used for construction. Its layout is influenced by technological, time, cost, safety, environmental aspects and, last but not least, the surroundings of the cons...

Bicycle transport is usually perceived as environmentally friendly alternative of car transport. From the point-of-view of everyday mobility, the bicycle is relatively fast, inexpensive, healthy and environmentally friendly mode of transport, which helps people to overcome the dependence on the car. For this reason, promoting cycling is one of the key concepts of sustainable mobility, which influences the creation of mobility management plans in recent decades. However, not everything is so bright. This article re...

The quality of indoor environment in buildings is one of the key factors of user satisfaction, as it affects their health and well-being. The indoor environment comprises of several components; the chief among them being the thermal and humidity microclimate, lighting, acoustics and indoor air quality. These can also be summed up by the term ?building physics?. The quality of the final indoor environment is largely decided in the initial phases of the building design. The spatial and material configuration of the ...