Alleys evoke powerful images in our collective fear and, yet, play an important role in our American culture. Currently, communities are recognizing the value of the alley to their social landscape and designers and planners are reviving the alley in designs for new communities. What is it about the alley that has communities so excited? Why are alleys being reincorporated into today’s design language? What do alleys contribute to a community’s landscape and how do they contribute to its identity? What do we have to learn about community and urban design from the alley? To answer these questions, this study compares a spectrum of five communities with various types of alleys – Holyoke, Amherst, and Northampton, Massachusetts; New York City; and Kentlands, Maryland. The conclusions drawn from this study indicate that the alley is an expressive landscape in which communities communicate their collective values and ideals and residents negotiate their community’s identity through control, order, and organization, including the naming, maintenance and use of the alley. It is also where boundaries of class, economic status, and affluence are navigated and expressed. Furthermore, the implications of these findings are that urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and engineers must resist the temptation to over-design and micro-manage a place if a truly organic and expressive community is desired. Within this framework, these professionals must also anticipate that a community will change and to allow for its alleys and other spaces to respond to, and reflect, these changes.

Area of the old Kufner´s sugar factory is situated on the riverside in the city center. Concept is taking up to city center with its complexion of building and with the public space form. Also the fragments of the factory are re-used like a historical reminds.

The project occupies by the place, where urban s and natural landscape meet together. The place is characterized by the topografy and the water - river Svratka. The water was determinant for the general proposal, where I create new river basin by which I bring the element of water inside the territory. In the surrounding of new river arm are concentrated sports and relaxation activities. Creating new parc rich of various character of places a develop the territory from the inside. This part represents the element of nature. The football academy is placed into the northern part with more solid and racional ordering, representing the element of human.

The diploma thesis deals with the City Library of Přerov. Urban space solution of Square of Přerov uprising lies in cleaning the corner space and its reinterpretation as a new urban form of landscaped square. Broken block of buildings is completed with the new library that responds to surrounding area.

Waterfront of the Danube in Bratislava is the urban and architectural project, which deals with the part of the waterfront that is the closest to the city centre. The solved territory is between The SNP Bridge and The Old Bridge. This Area is divided into three areas. Each Area is analysed in detail, which results in a concrete proposal. In the area 1 (Ľ. Stur - quare) a Passenger Port is designed under the coronation hill with a statue of Maria Theresa. In the Territory 2 (waterfront - Fajnovo nábrezie) underground parking lot is designed. There is a park for students above the ground. Territory 3 (Tyršovo waterfront) is supplemented by a new building of creativity centre.

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This dissertation interrogates the agency of provincial communities in the Roman Empire to shape their urban environments though the integration of non-local building types, specifically Roman-style baths. By applying an urban-studies approach to the examination of these technologically complex and socially significant building types, this study intervenes in the traditional study of Roman baths, which have primarily studied these facilities in isolation or focused exclusively on their design and layout. Instead, this dissertation explores the placement of Roman-style baths in provincial settlements, the urban contexts of their integration, and the influence that pre-existing baths and bathing culture had on the construction of Roman-style baths. Recognizing that provincial communities made deliberate choices regarding the location of Roman-style baths in their pre-existing urban framework, this dissertation explores the factors that helped dictate the placement of these bathing facilities. Rather than focus on a single region of the Roman world, this dissertation studies the placement of baths in one hundred settlements across eleven provinces that stretch from the Britannia in the west and Asia in the East. This transregional study presents a balance between exploring empire-wide trends and local practices concerning the urban context of Roman baths, as well as the relationship between the two and reveals the widespread preference for placing Roman baths in high-traffic locations, where access and visibility would be greatest. This dissertation ends with a focused examination of baths in Roman Greece and Britain to investigate how pre-existing bathing culture influenced the integration of Roman-style baths in these regions and how the preferred high-traffic locations were adapted by the local communities to accommodate these facilities. These case studies highlight the preference for these provincial communities to construct their baths afresh in new locations that best suited local needs and expectations. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This dissertation examines the placement of Roman-style baths in provincial communities to investigate the factors that influenced the integration of these bathing facilities into pre-established urban landscapes. A total of one hundred settlements across eleven provinces are studied in order to identify the factors that influenced the placement and integration of these non-local building types and how these factors varied between regions. In addition, focused case studies on Roman-style baths in Britain and Greece are used to explore how pre-existing bathing culture impacted the adoption of Roman public baths. This dissertation represents the first transregional study of the placement of Roman-style baths and contributes to a growing trend of scholarship that highlights the agency of local communities in the adoption of the Roman cultural practice of public bathing.