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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...

Currently in the field of BIM design, the Czech Republic is in many ways behind compared to other countries. In countries in which this method is long established, it makes a significant contribution to improving the economic and environmental efficiency of buildings in all life cycles of construction. The BIM method can save construction costs and conserve the environment, by appropriate design of technical and technological equipment, as early as the preliminary stage of a project, but also when building is carr...

The significant centres of settlement on the territory of the Czech Republic have also their suburbs aside from their core areas (centres). The dynamics of outflow of population from city centres to suburban areas influences significantly the global character of a city as such. The influence of suburbanization is currently evident in all larger residential centres. The urbanization of rural population and the extension of administration boundaries of cities lead to distinguished and mutual interaction of the neigh...

The cornerstone of metropolitan areas of the Czech Republic is the so-called integrated system of centres, characterized by a high degree of territorial concentration of the population of economic phenomena, and a high level of internal functional interconnections. Territorial intensity and concentration of interactions within metropolitan areas are mainly reflected in the volume of labour and school commuting, as well as economic activity, as a result of the number and location of job opportunities. Hradec Kr?lov...

This paper analyzes the presence of major employers in the core cities of bi-centric Hradec Kr?lov? ? Pardubice agglomeration which are the main sources of economic potential for the entire agglomeration area and important location in terms of GDP generation at national level. The presence of the different economically active entities also significantly influences the numbers of inhabitants not only residing in the agglomeration but also migrating there for work. Due to this facts both core cities face the issue o...