Denna uppsats syftar till att utmana den vedertagna föreställningen om vad ett offentligt rum innebär och ska innehålla enligt manlig tradition, samt till att skapa förståelse för hur föreställningar om kön påverkar kvinnors liv i staden. Uppsatsen undersöker hur kvinnors erfarenheter kan uttryckas i det offentliga rummet samt vilken potential feministisk- och genusmedveten planering kan ha för att stärka kvinnors känsla av ägandeskap i staden. Här används feministiskt- och genusvetenskaplig teori för att diskutera könsförtryck kopplat till den byggda miljön samt som ett analysverktyg för att studera skillnader i kvinnor och mäns villkor att tillträda och befinna sig i det offentliga rummet. Studien undersöker en aktivitetsyta i Lund som syftar till att vara jämställd och välkomnande för alla människor. Studieobjektet används för att diskutera gestaltningens effekter och potential som verktyg för att förbättra kvinnors upplevelser i staden. Studien visar på att stora delar av den fysiska miljön idag är planerad utifrån manliga kriterier och normer, samt att dessa än idag påverkar kvinnors stadsliv. För att minska konsekvenserna av en traditionell patriarkal planering har disciplinen antagit en strategi vilken utgår från könsneutrala kriterier. Detta, menar vi, har misslyckats med att synliggöra kvinnor och icke- cispersoner samt negligerat många av de erfarenheter som dessa grupper delar. Att se på stadsplanering utifrån ett feministiskt perspektiv menar vi möjliggör för att omformulera befintliga planeringsfrågor samt omvärdera för givet tagna stadsideal. Uppsatsens teoretiska ramverk visar att det finns bakomliggande samhällsstrukturer vilka påverkar såväl den fysiska miljön som den sociala och att kvinnor därmed förhåller sig annorlunda till staden än män. Några av de slutsatser uppsatsen presenterar är att könsneutral planering alltid kommer gagna män, såvida vi inte lever i ett postpatriarkalt samhälle, samt att vi måste hitta nya former för det offentliga rummet om vi strävar efter en jämställd byggd miljö. Vidare att kvinnor bär på kunskap och erfarenheter som är relativt outforskade inom planeringsdisciplinen och att dessa har potential till att omdana flera av de planeringsnormer som råder idag. / This thesis aims to challenge the accepted notion of what a public space means and should contain according to male tradition, as well as to create an understanding of how gender perceptions affect women’s opportunities in the city. The paper examines how women’s experiences can be expressed in public spaces and what potential feminist- and gender conscious planning have to strengthen women’s sense of ownership in the city. Here, feminist and gender theory is used to discuss the built environments role in gender oppression as well as an analytical tool for studying differences in women’s and men’s conditions of access and being in public spaces. The thesis examines an area of activity in Lund, Sweden, which aims to be gender equal and welcoming to all citizens. The object of study is used to discuss how design can affect and be used as a tool to improve women’s experiences in the city. We have found that large parts of the physical environment are planned based on male criteria and norms, and that these affect women’s urban life to this day. In order to reduce the consequences of traditional patriarchal planning, the discipline has adopted a strategy based on gender-neutral criteria. This, we believe, has failed to make women and non-cis people visible in planning. Therefore, many of the experiences that these groups share has been neglected. Looking at urban planning from a feminist perspective, we believe, enables to reformulate existing planning issues and re-evaluate the given urban ideals. The theoretical framework of the thesis shows that there are underlying social structures that affect both the physical environment as well as the social, and that women thus experience the city differently than men. Some of the conclusions this paper presents are that gender-neutral planning will always benefit men, unless we live in a post-patriarchal society, and that we must find new forms for public space if we strive for a gender equal built environment. Furthermore, women carry knowledge and experiences that are relatively unexplored in the planning discipline, and that these have the potential to change many of the planning standards that prevail today.

En la presente investigación buscamos desarrollar una Mediateca Pública para todos los usuarios del distrito de Independencia. Realizamos un estudio profundo del lugar, de los usuarios y de proyectos referenciales, los cuales nos han ayudado a proyectar un edificio que resuelva la problemática principal de este distrito. Independencia es el centro económico de Lima Norte. Sin embargo, la mayoría de personas a cargo de las microempresas del distrito no tienen una educación completa ni una visión global del campo al que se dedican. Esta situación constituye la problemática principal de este distrito. Por tanto, la respuesta a esta problemática es poder brindar al usuario una opción donde pueda obtener información acreditada de manera fácil, rápida y práctica, incluso usando el edificio como una máquina informativa en sí misma, para que los peatones sean educados con tan solo pasar por dentro o fuera del edificio. Colocamos la mediateca en la intersección de dos avenidas principales del distrito: Túpac Amaru e Izaguirre, en la intersección de tres zonificaciones (vivienda, comercio y educación) para que la mediateca tenga mayor alcance a mayor variedad de usuarios. Buscamos brindar un espacio público donde los diferentes usuarios interactúen con la intención de que el edificio se compenetre con una relación de ida y vuelta con su entorno inmediato. Asimismo, buscamos brindar un servicio comunitario al contexto inmediato, ya que dentro del radio de influencia tenemos muchas instituciones educativas que no cuentan con espacios adecuados para estudiar. / This research aims to develop a Public Media Library for all users in the Independencia district. An in-depth study of the site, users and referential projects was made and all this helped us to design a building that solves the main problem of this district. Independencia is the economic center of the North of Lima. However, most of the people who are at the head of the micro-enterprises do not have a complete education and a global vision of the field in which they work. This situation is the main problem of the district. Therefore, the answer to this problem is to offer the users an option where they can obtain accredited information in an easy, fast and practical way, even if they use the building as an information machine in itself. In this way pedestrians may be educated just by passing inside or outside the building. The Media Library was placed at the intersection of two main avenues in the district, Túpac Amaru and Izaguirre, at the intersection of three zoning areas (housing, commerce and education) so that the media library could reach a wider variety of users. It seeks to provide a public space where different users interact with each other so that the building can be joined with a two- way relationship with its immediate environment. It seeks to provide a communitary service to the immediate context, because within of its radius of influence, there are many educational institutions that do not have suitable places to study. / Tesis

This doctoral thesis is based on an approach of the city planning and control of its development as well as principals of sustainable development. Permanent sustainability of city planning and control of city development needs indicators for valuation of effectiveness of these processes. The doctoral thesis deal with valuation of public space quality and the opportunities of description quality of public space as an aggregate indicator of city life quality. Thesis is focused on selection of indicators, which is crucial for valuation of public space quality linked with processes of city planning, and proposal of its methodology. Based on analyses of existing approaches and valuations of public space, the indicators representing quality were proposed. The main requirement for proposed indicators was effort for clarify and simplicity as well as availability of dates needed for indicator´s measurements. The thesis includes theoretical proposal of methodology as well as its examination in practice. Final linkage indicator - "public space - indicator of city life quality" is verified on chosen public spaces of cities in the Czech Republic. Complete methodology was proved on Hradec Králové city.

Student Bc. Michaela Ráčková in her diploma thesis will be deal with a phenomenon of revitalization of church buildings, especially design of reconversion of the former vicarage and its surroundings in the village Přítluky in South Moravia. Church buildings as churches, vicarages, convents have always been determining and dominant element in the formation of settlements. Their clear and often privileged position in the structure of settlements was determined by relationship of man to faith. This position remained them despite many ups and downs and church buildings still play an important role in the environment in which we live.

The waterfronts of major rivers play an important role in the development of settlements. On the territory of Slovakia, however, there are many more small flows whose potential remains unused. It also includes the river Domanižanka, which forms one of the main urban axes of Považská Bystrica and is a significant element of the whole region. At present, it is designed for a flood flow with a trough recessed into supporting stone - concrete walls. In the built-up area of the city, this river flows through a diverse territory. In my diploma thesis I focus on six spaces with their own atmosphere and varying degrees of intimacy. These spaces lie along the flow on the busy line of the main city center with its local center at the SNP. To these spaces I assign a certain character, or, on the contrary, I support the existing one. I respect the existing values of places and I try to integrate their interventions into parts. The basis of the proposal is to create an adequate pedestrian and cycling link between these sites with regard to the quality of the individual stories of these places. Where water still represents the primary element of shared viability between nature and its inhabitants, humans. Water as a basic condition for the existence of life. Water as one of the elements, used to regenerate the body and the soul. To cleanse the city and the place.

Main topic of Diploma thesis is to create a complex project for building a new sport-social complex. Based on a previously handled analysis and presumptive sport-cultural thesis of Sokol architecture, creates a main aim of the project – to proove if this concept of architectural thinking can be applied nowadays even with a contribution of actual economic and social conditions. Plan reacts on development of already built sport buildings, the absence of public area subsistent the downtown of Zlin and problems of traffic in touched area. Plan consists of a complex sport center and a hotel that is closing the north part of touched area with residential area before actual sport complex. Project also includes suggestions for transport infrastructure and public areas in thorough context.

This diploma thesis is dedicated to design of the sports center and its integration into the urban structure of the city. In previous analyzes, the Sokol architecture and its typology have been examined in detail. One of the aims of the diploma thesis is to verify final hypotheses resulting from the analysis and apply them to the context of today. The project proposal takes into consideration existing built-up area around the plot, its potential, topography and also the complex traffic situation in the area. The solution is to divide the area by a mitigative traffic artery into two segments. In the northern segment there are functions of administration, accommodation and public greenery, in the southern segment there is a sport center linked to existing sports halls.

The city district Praha 13 – Nové Butovice has changed over the last 40 years. From the land of villages and fields have become the housing estates and bussiness centers. That is why the territory is still looking own identity. One of the tools to achieve it, is building a monunent. The project focuses on urban integration and architectural design of the new dominant in this district. The proposal is based on theoretical analyzes of the area and experimental process for determining the location and form of the building with its surroundings. It also solves operational, disposition and architectural expressions of the exterior and interior of the building.

The aim of the diploma project entitled Revitalization and renewal of public spaces in Veľké Němčice was to find the right approach to finding a new use of the former brewery building located in the center of the village. With the right function, contribution to the development of the village was to transform part of the building into a community center, which in terms of capacity and location fits into the development strategy of the village. The second part of the building was at least partially restored to its original function in the form of a small brewery.

Defining the town of Kopřivnice from point of view other than just as an industrial town became the starting point of my diploma thesis. When studying the history of the town, it became certain, that Kopřivnice is not made up by industrial areas and prefab estates, but a small stream hides in its DNA, which defined the origin of the town. A few historical layers were built on it, it is only right that other changes take place in its vicinity. Kopřivnička is characterized not only by the fact that it forms the green axe of the town, but also by the fact that in its surrounding there are mostly buildings intended for housing. Family houses and prefab houses alternate along its length. How should the housing look like, how can we determine the next stage of housing in Kopřivnice? That is the question, that fulfil the theme of my diploma thesis. We have got a creek and the green axe, which is not perceived by many residents, and we have an acute shortage of housing in the town. I am looking for answers to the question of whether it is possible to change the scale in the context of prefabricated houses, whether it is possible to live differently than everyone separeted in their own apartment. The answer seems to be a complex of community housing next to the former archbishop‘s manor. There is a change in the perception of the function of housing. The thesis tries to reflect the architecture in terms of the requirements of the population not only by gender or age, but also in terms of interests, hobbies and their personal needs. Each person is unique and needs a different space for themselves and in their surroundings. Can loners, workaholics, seniors, extroverts and large families live together to make everyone happy?