The diploma thesis that is presented is focused on courtyards in the capital city of the Czech Republic, in Prague. Courtyard is defined as a semi-public area enclosed by buildings and open to the sky. These areas were formed from the turn of the 19th and 20th century to the second half of the 20th century. The utility function was the original function of courtyards. This case study focuses on a specific courtyard and tries to analyse current functions of courtyards. How can courtyards contribute to a better life quality in cities and which decision-making processes can aim to their optimal utilization? This thesis tries to contribute to the theoretical description of courtyards and define them as a place important for a living and compact city. Key words urbanism, public area, semi-public area, courtyards, case study

This diploma thesis is devoted to the topic of riverside docks in Prague. Riverside dock is a coastal area, which is on a lower level than an embankment. Previously used as docks for cargo and passenger ships and storage of sand. Nowadays they fulfill mainly recreational and socio-cultural function. The case study is focused on one of Prague's riverside docks, the riverside dock on Rašínovo nabrezi. In this thesis, I will focus on the description and explanation of the use of the riverside dock on Rašínovo nábřeží. Concentrating on its practical operation, conflicts of interests of individual participants and the impact on the environment and on the direct surroundings.

Bakgrund Människor som utsätts för diskriminering löper större risk för psykisk och fysisk ohälsa. Diskrimineringslagen reglerar diskriminering, där bland annat kön är en av diskrimineringsgrunderna. Ett jämställt samhälle kan medverka till att könsskillnaderna i livstidshälsa minskar, och självrapporterade hälsobesvär är störst i ojämställda länder. Sveriges arbetsmarknad karaktäriseras av könsmässig segregering och det finns samband mellan könssegregering på arbetsplatsen och sjuklighet för båda könen. I Diskrimineringslagen står det också att arbetsplatser med minst 25 anställda måste ha en jämställdhetsplan. Syfte Syftet är att beskriva jämställdhetsplaner på arbetsplatser i offentlig verksamhet med utgångspunkt i Diskrimineringslagen. Metod Jämställdhetsplanerna har analyserats med hjälp av deduktiv kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Sex jämställdhetsplaner från olika arbetsgivare inom offentlig sektor har samlats in i en medelstor kommun i Sverige. Resultat De flesta planer följer riktlinjerna i Diskrimineringslagen. Alla anställda ska ha möjlighet att kombinera arbetslivet med familjelivet och ingen ska bli trakasserad på grund av kön. Ingen ska bli diskriminerad i arbetssökandet, men att viss positiv diskriminering får förekomma om det ena könet är underrepresenterat. Vidare ska inga osakliga löneskillnader förekomma. Diskussion Det kan finnas andra styrdokument som reglerar jämställdhetsarbetet på vissa av arbetsplatserna, och det kan därför saknas vissa delar i planerna. Socialt stöd och gruppidentifiering är skyddsfaktorer mot diskriminering, och borde ges större utrymme i planerna. Positiv diskriminering kan bli diskriminerande mot det kön som inte kvoteras in och detta skulle kunna lösas med att förändra genussystemet. För att jämställdhet ska ha en positiv effekt på folkhälsan bör även män anamma traditionellt sett kvinnliga roller. / Background People who are discriminated have an increased risk for poor mental and physical health. The discrimination law regulates discrimination, and in it it's written that gender is one of the discrimination foundations. A gender equal society makes gender differences in life expectancy smaller, and there are more self reported health inconveniences in countries who are not gender equal. Sweden's labour market is characterized by gender segregation, and there's a correlation between gender segregation at work and illness for both genders. In the discrimination law it's written that every workplace with at least 25 employees are obligated to have a plan for gender equality. Aim The aim is to describe plans of gender equality of workplaces in the public area with a base in the Swedish discrimination law Method The plans for gender equality have been analysed with deductive qualitative content analyzis. Six plans from different employers in the public area have been collected in a medium big municipality in Sweden. Result Most of the plans follow the directions in the discrimination law. Employees shall be able to combine family life with working life and no one should be harassed because of gender. No one should be discriminated in the process of job seeking, but some affirmative action can occur if one of the genders are underrepresented. There should be no irrelevant salary differences. Discussion There may be other policy documents which regulate the gender equality work at some of the workplaces, and therefore there could be some missing parts in the plans. Social support and group identification are factors of protection against discrimination, and should be given more space in the plans. Affirmative actions can be discrimination of the gender who is not prioritized and this could be solved with an elimination of the society based gender roles. In order for gender equality to have a positive effect on public health, men should adopt traditional female roles.

Cette thèse s’intéresse à la fabrique d’espaces publics urbains par le paysage en articulant deux questions : - A travers une approche épistémologique de la démarche de projet paysager, elle tente d’identifier les fondements conceptuels qui définissent une pensée-paysage de la ville, en soulignant certains paradigmes qui la singularisent : la marche, la carte, le jardin.- En repérant les risques et enjeux engagés par la « crise de visibilité » qui affecte aujourd’hui l’espace public sous la double forme d’un délitement des modes de coprésence et d’une spectacularisation des territoires urbains, elle s’interroge sur les nouvelles perspectives ouvertes par cette nouvelle culture de projet pour relier à nouveau espace public politique et espaces publics. A la croisée entre esthétique et politique, la fabrique d’espace public peut être l’art d’inventer de nouveaux processus de subjectivation. La thèse envisage les parcours et les récits, comme les matières premières d’aménagements spatiaux instaurateurs d’un public émancipé ; elle explore quelques tactiques d’écritures paysagères. / This thesis deals with the making of urban public areas through the landscape focusing on two issues:- Through an epistemic approach of the landscaping project process, it intends to identify the conceptual founding principles characterizing a landscape-way of thinking the city, highlightening some paradigms that single it out: walk, map, garden.- Spotting out the risks and stakes involved in the “visibility crisis” that affects the public area nowadays in the double form of the co-presence modes that break down and of the dramatization of urban territories, it questions the new prospects opened by this new project culture to connect again political area and public areas. At the cross-road between aesthetics and politics, the making of public space can be the art to invent new processes of subjectification. The thesis considers the journeys and the tales, as raw materials to layout the areas establishing an emancipated audience; it explores some tactics of landscape writings.

The main idea of my project was to densify the current Mendel Square as much as possible, with the consideration of historical background so that it could serve today´s requirements and needs and at the same time it revered typical elements of Old Brno (ford, mill-race, market).

Bc. Pavla Matějová, Architecture and Urbanism, Department of Design V., Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology 2009, 19 pages Diploma Thesis, Tutor doc. Ing. arch. Karel Havliš, Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology The diploma thesis deals with an urban and architectural design of a stretch of post-industrial area along the Svitava raceway in Brno, specifically the locality in the area next to the municipal heating plant on Radlas and the former plant Mosilana in Křenová Street. The thesis main objective is to find the potential and capacity of the Svitava raceway concerning redevelopment and creation of new public areas, especially in the form of embankments designated for pedestrians. The design also focuses on redevelopment and finding new suitable functional utilization, in particular of the industrial buildings and premises of the former plant Mosilana. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis describes the urban development of the city, its history and the development of Brno region as well as rivers in its district. It examines and analyses the prerequisites of the area affecting the design. Complete description and specifications of the projected design are to be found here. The drawing part deals with the graphic analysis of the area as well as the concretization of prerequisites influencing the design and solves the complete urban design together with the designated local views of the area.

The diploma thesis deals with an urban and architectural design of a stretch of area along the Svitava raceway and the Ponávka river in Brno, specifically of the locality in the area where the Svitava raceway has already merged with the Ponávka river. The area is situated south of the city centre, in the cadastral maps of Komárov and partly Trnitá. The main objective of the thesis is to find the potential and capacity of the Svitava raceway concerning redevelopment and creation of new municipal areas, especially in the form of embankments designated for pedestrians and cyclists. The design also focuses on the redevelopment and on finding a new suitable functional utilization of the area. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis describes the urban development of the city, its history and the development of Brno region as well as of the rivers in its district. It examines and analyses the prerequisites of the area affecting the design. Complete description and specifications of the proposed design are to be found here. The drawing part deals with the graphic analysis of the area as well as the concretization of the prerequisites influencing the design and it solves the complete urban design accompanied with the detailed local views of the area.

台灣已於1993年邁入高齡化社會，因社會結構及傳統觀念的改變，高齡者逐漸重視自己退休後的個人生活，而選擇獨自或與配偶一起入住專為高齡者規劃設計之老人住宅的比例也逐年攀升；為有效促進高齡者從事對身心有益的休閒及社交活動，老人住宅應該配合提供安全、適當的日常活動公共空間及設施來支持。因此，老人住宅的公共空間規劃與設計就顯得相當重要。究竟老人住宅之公共空間是否可以真正滿足高齡者的使用需求？是否可促使高齡者積極使用？正是目前規劃、興建或改善老人住宅的重要課題之一，亦為本研究所欲探討之主要動機。 本研究運用資料調查、實地觀察、深入訪談及問卷調查等多元調查與評估方法，並選擇擁有多樣室內、室外之公共設施及共用空間的「長庚養生文化村」作為研究案例，分別針對「公共服務設施」、「室內休閒設施」、「戶外活動空間」及「共用服務空間」等4類公共空間進行使用及規劃等議題之探討，即藉由老人住宅用後評估，深入探討高齡者對於所居住的老人住宅現有公共空間規劃的滿意程度，探究高齡者對於老人住宅公共空間規劃設計之真實反應與感受；並依據評估分析成果，提出老人住宅公共空間之規劃原則建議，以供未來興建高齡者安居住宅之公共空間規劃參考。本研究結果及建議如下： 一、高齡者對公共空間需求滿意度以戶外森林步道及健康中心最高，以健康為主軸的休閒性設施仍為未來規劃重點。 二、老人住宅公共空間滿意度與「教育程度」、「身體狀況」、「子女探訪情形」等三項因素有關。 三、目前老人住宅公共空間議題，關心度低，容易被忽視及犧牲。 四、老人住宅公共空間規劃設計之主要議題包括： （一）餐廳為入住老人住宅之高齡者社交活動的重要空間，也是假日與探訪家人聚餐的重要場所，而餐廳的寬敞、舒適程度，及社交機會之提供，是高齡者關心的議題之一。 （二）設置報紙的交誼廳使用率較高，而設有書報的交誼廳，其照明及管理等議題必須加強考慮。 （三）中央式的走廊，因為通風及採光較不佳，降低了高齡者的社交機會。 （四）活動量大的活動休閒空間（如籃球場、桌球室等）僅能供探訪家人使用，效用不大，未符合高齡者需求。 五、規劃適合每一位高齡者的居住空間，建議朝向「通用設計原則」來進行規劃設計。 六、老人住宅基本生活之公共空間（如交誼室、洗衣室等），應配合生活單元作可及性高的簇群式配置，以增加高齡者使用機會；至於提供全部高齡者共同使用之休閒空間（如學習教室、娛樂室、會議室等），建議集中配置，以方便管理。 / Taiwanese society has become an aging society since 1993. Due to changes in societal structure and traditional concepts, phenomenon such as aging people started to emphasize more on their personal life after retirement and increasing ratio of aging population, either single or with domestic partner, move into specially designed retirement apartment have brought up to attention. In order to effectively encourage aging resident to exercise beneficial recreation and socialization activities, safe and proper common activity areas in retirement apartments are necessary and thus, the design and planning of the common recreation areas has become an essential issue. Questions regarding whether the retirement apartments will fully satisfy the needs of their aging resident and whether the aging residents actively utilizing those facilities are two of the most essential regards for planning, building, and improving retirement apartments; this is also the motivation for conducting this research. Our research focuses four main issues regarding as utilization and planning of public area such as “public service facility”, “in-door recreation facility”, “out-door activity space”, and “shared service space” in Chang Gung Health and Culture Village which possesses varieties of in-door and out-door public facilities and public areas; the research itself is conducted by data investigation, on-site observation, detailed interview, and paper-based survey to insightfully investigate the degree of satisfaction of aging residents toward existing planning of shared area and real feeling and reaction toward existing planning of public area. Suggestions for planning of shared areas, as results from analysis of conducted surveys, are provided for the reference of future planning of shared areas in aging resident village. The suggestions are as followed: 1.Out-door forest trails and healthcare centers are the two types of facilities that are listed among the highest degree of satisfaction by aging people. Health-oriented recreation facilities are still regarded as the most essential element in future planning of retirement apartment construction. 2.The degree of satisfaction in retirement apartment is directly associated to three factors which include “degree of education received”, “physical condition of the aging person”, and “the frequency of family visits.” 3.The current issues for public area in retirement apartments are low degree of attention and easily neglected or sacrificed. 4.Issues regarding the planning of public areas in retirement apartments includes: A.Cafeteria is one of the most important socializing space for aging residents in retirement apartment and an important space for family visits. Degree of comfortableness and spaciousness of cafeteria and whether the cafeteria offers socializing opportunities to aging residents are the two main concerns of aging residents. B.Utilization degrees in lobbies that provide newspaper are higher than lobbies that do not provide newspaper. The lighting and management of such lobbies are needed to be emphasized. C.Socialization opportunities decrease due to the facts that lighting and aeration in central hallway are not quite satisfactory. D.Recreation areas that involve physical activities such as basketball and table tennis are only for family members that visit the aging resident and are not satisfactory to the demand of aging residents. 5.Plan the resident area for each aging resident by utilizing principles of universal design is suggested. 6.The public space of retirement apartment for daily live, such as social room or laundering room, shall be disposed fitting Cluster of Living Style for accessibility to increase the using of the elderly; As for the common space of leisure for all elderly, Such as learning room, recreation room, conference room, it is suggested be allocated together for the convenience of management.

Bc. Pavel Malina, , Architecture and Urbanism, Department of Design V., Faculty of Architecture Brno University of Technology 2009, 42 pages Diploma Thesis, Tutor doc. Ing. arch. Karel Havli, Faculty of Architecture Brno University of Technology The main focus of this thesis is an urban and an architectural design of the postindustrial area alongside the Svitavy raceway in Brno, particularly with chosen area from Křenová street to railway corridor behind Lidl market. This thesis is intended to find hidden potential of the Svitavy race in the urban environment, especially to renew and build new public areas dedicated to pedestrians and cyclists. Proposed solution is also trying to find new functional utilization of the current area along the both race shores. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis describes the urban development of the city, its history and the development of Brno region as well as rivers in its district. It examines and analyses the prerequisites of the area affecting the design. Complete description and specifications of the projected design are to be found here. The drawing part deals with the graphic analysis of the area as well as the concretization of prerequisites influencing the design and solves the complete urban design together with the designated local views of the area.

This diploma thesis deals with construction of new mixed-used building in Kuřim at Blanenská street. The relevant estate lies on bulding plot number 2994/27. There aren’t existing buildings. When the proposition for the bulding was being drafted, an extra focus was placed on use of public zone of building. The proposed capacity of bulding consists of 10 living units, with its own internal parking places and basement cells. The mixed-used building has five live floors, there are one underground floor and four above-ground floors. The underground floor is used as parking zone and there are basement cells. The first above-ground floor is used for comercial purposes as a shopping center for public, with its own parking zone. Other above-ground floors are used for living purposes. Living area and public area are separated.