Residential satisfaction is a part of the social pillar sustainable development. An investigation of satisfaction can contribute to designing of such residential estates that will better satisfy their needs towards overall life satisfaction. Overall life satisfaction underpins the prosperous and generally satisfied society. This work deals with the relationship between the urban structure and the satisfaction of the residents living there. To describe this relationship, it is necessary to define the terms urban structure and residential satisfaction. The research block shall be based on theoretical grounds and overview of urban structures. The theoretical block deals with the historical overview and development of urban structures in the city of Brno and Vienna since the mid-19th century to the present. Based on this knowledge, locations for case studies of the residential estates have been selected subsequently to represent various urban structures. A local survey, questionnaire survey and interviews with residents took place in the residential estates selected in this way. The result of the research some of questions answers and asks some other ones, because the residential satisfaction is a relative consideration and not an exactly expressible value. It is also conditional on many factors that cannot be managed in this work. It is evident that the compact city may not be well-functioning if it is not in the central part of the city and the relative success of the of the open building line of the prefab estates compared to compact sets nearby city centers has been also a surprising result. However, some other assumptions have been confirmed.

The diploma thesis "The future of human exoplanet settlement from the present point of view" is focused on the analysis of the development of the urban compo-sition of the city for the purpose of finding the most suitable concept of the set-tlement. Its foundation is hypothetically put on some of the planets outside the solar system, where could be comparable conditions as on Earth. Installation in these extreme conditions is chosen deliberately so that the essential aspects of the urban layout come to the fore. In this way it is possible at the same time to verify the presumption of stability of the basic assumptions of a functional city and ap-ply the final conclusions in the current conditions as well.

There is a fragmentation in the discussion regarding sustainable urban development in the architectural field today. This has led to the creation of several envisions that seek to achieve sustainability using different approaches. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to map different envisions in the architectural field with a focal point on three specific; spatial agency, ecological urbanism and hedonistic sustainability.  The methods used in this thesis are a document study and a literature study with the aim to compare the swedish policies regarding architecture and urban development against the envisions that exist in the architectural field today. Status quo, reform and transformation are the three approaches used as the main theory to analyze the gathered empirics. We have also introduced practical examples from the envisions to give a more nuanced picture of the field and how visions and ideas are being realized. These examples are 2012Architecten in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, HafenCity in Hamburg, Germany and finally Copenhill in Copenhagen, Denmark.  The structure of the thesis is of an analyzed character to help the reader follow the reasonings and notions presented throughout the study. The conclusion shows that there are great difficulties in achieving transformation within the field today, especially regarding the practitioning and realization of visions and ideas since most of the projects are being realized with an underlying driving force in the economic aspect and the urge for economic growth. The study also shows that the current policies in Sweden do not make room for transformation since they are based on the social structures of today. / Inom arkitekturverksamheten idag finns det en splittring i definitionen kring hållbart stadsbyggande vilket skapat flertalet föreställningar som på olika sätt strävar mot hållbarhet. Uppsatsen syfte är därmed att kartlägga olika föreställningar om hållbart stadsbyggande och arkitekturpraktik där fokus har lagts vid tre föreställningar; spatial agency, ecological urbanism och hedonistic sustainability.  Arbetet är utformat efter en dokumentstudie och en litteraturstudie för att kunna jämföra de svenska styrdokumenten och den rådande arkitekturpolitik med de aktuella föreställningar som finns inom arkitekturverksamheten. De tre förhållningssätten status quo, reform och transformation utgör uppsatsen underliggande teori och den insamlade empirin analyseras utefter dessa. Även praktiska exempel från de utvalda föreställningarna tas upp för att ge en nyanserad bild av hur visioner och idéer förverkligas i samhället idag. De praktiska exemplen utgörs av 2012Architecten, Rotterdam, Nederländerna, HafenCity, Hamburg, Tyskland och slutligen Copenhill, Köpenhamn, Danmark.  Uppsatsen byggs upp efter en analyserande struktur för att bjuda in läsaren till att följa de resonemang och begrepp som presenteras. Uppsatsens slutsats visar på svårigheter att uppnå transformation inom stadsbyggnad och arkitektur idag. Detta då praktiken inte speglar forskning och visioner utan samtliga projekt har en underliggande ekonomisk drivkraft. Studien visar även på hur den rådande arkitekturpolitiken inte ger utrymme för transformation inom stadsbyggnad, utan i stället bygger på rådande samhällsstrukturer.

Kohoutovíce is my interpretation of urban district moving on the edge of village and cold war urban development. Duality who are giving into context grew old buildings and cold war development as a place with exception identity. Identity based on mutual disharmony forming a function unit when one part complements other. Action causes a reaction. Culture Social center with the Town Hall as the main bearer of the idea of mutual penetration between coexistence looking for its history and future. Instead of overlap, which aims to reflect both the present and future needs and significantly cities and boroughs, necessary for quality of living and use. The project implements existing hall located on the border of the original buildings, but also in direct contact with another typical feature of the whole territory, and panel buildings. Duality, otherness, diversity as incompatible interaction forming a single center of gravity in one place. Persona grata.

Strong sustainability requires enhanced knowledge and understanding of complex social-ecological interactions, but it also implies a ‘novel’ conceptualization of the relationship between humans and nature, one in which individuals perceive themselves as embedded members of the Biosphere. The aim of this Licentiate thesis is to investigate the validity of a strategy that is centered on designing the urban green infrastructure to nurture such human-nature relationship in children’s attitudes. The research is framed by spatial cognition, conservation psychology, and social-ecological sustainability and it focuses on the validity of this strategy. Hence, the Licentiate analyzes how reoccurring experiences of nature that are situated in the everyday habitat (i.e. nature routines) affect personal human-nature attitudes and how these can be implemented as leverage points to change social-ecological systems using sustainable urbanism. Paper 1 tests the assumed link between the nature routines in Stockholm and preschool children’s development of cognitive and emotional affinity to nature. The results show that nature-rich routines over a period of four years are significantly correlated with the strength of preschooler’s affinity with nature. Paper 2 uses a mixed methods approach to evaluate changes in Connection To Nature (CTN) in 10 years olds who partake in a project of nature conservation. The results of Paper 2 show that there is an evaluative gap between theory and practice in connecting children with nature that impedes the evaluation of how children’s CTN changes over short periods of time and that impedes the creation of an evaluative framework for nature experiences. Paper 3 considers these empirical results in theorizing an approach to sustainable urban design based on social-ecological sustainability that includes CTN. In order to overcome existing limitations Paper 3 presents the concept of cognitive affordances as a theoretical tool to embed cognitive and emotional attitudes towards nature into the design of urban spaces. All combined these papers provide valid evidence that nature routines in cities, especially for children, can be a significant leverage point to enable future sustainable civilizations.

The study aims to present the notion of rhythmanalysis in relation to the city environment and aims to apply the theory to field research. The theoretical part focuses on the semiotic conception of the rhythm, on the position of rhythmanalysis in the work of its father, Henri Lefebvre and it further tackles the topic and its applications in Czech and also international context. Following this approach, it clarifies a wide range of related conceptions and phenomenons. It finds common points of reference in philosophy, semiotics, critical theory, urbanism, social geography, art and other fields, which is determined by its interdisciplinary nature. The practical part relates the previously mentioned theoretical foundations to applied, empirical research. It observes and reveals the rhythms of Prague area named Vltavská, it analyzes and interprets them and shows the rhythmanalysis as a legitimate analytical instrument with a potential value for urbanism.

The topic of this diploma thesis is the landscape, specifically the urban landscape of Prague's Palmovka and its various dimensions. In a social anthropological and culturally geographical discourse, the landscape is a complex, multidimensional and multi-layered concept that opens up interesting research questions and imaginations. In this discourse, the landscape is not only a summary of the material aspects of the natural environment around us, but it is also a field of political negotiations, power tensions, experiences, representations and generally interactions between itself and man. From this point of view, the author explores the landscape of Palmovka, which is itself a multi-layered and complex in a view of the diversity of urban structures, historical memos, unrealized visions of development and long-term search for unified concept by various actors during political negotiations that would give this inner city landscape a face. This negotiation is also related to observable processes changing both the physical and social dimension of Palmovka based on efforts to regenerate the area. These processes also include the gentrification which means the migration of young and mostly university-educated people to the older parts of the inner city. Therefore, mainly on the basis of field...

This thesis focuses on communication of strategic planning of municipalities in the Czech Republic. Communication is viewed from the position of the authors of media messages. The author demonstrates firstly the importance of the level of information awareness as a prerequisite for citizens' participation in formulating public policies and places the issue of participation in the concept of governance. On the basis of media analysis the data from 1996 to 2014 and five main criteria, from which relies for further data interpretation in connection with the strategic plans of cities and municipalities, author identifies major trends in communicating the topic in the media. The main question for this thesis is: What is the experience with communication of strategic plans of municipalities and cities of the Czech Republic in the media? This question evokes another sub- questions, which in the context of media analysis will need to be answered. How are the strategic plans called in the media? How are they explained to the public? What other techniques of explanation of complex planning process can we engage? The author focuses on recent publications by the World Bank and shares experience with participation from around the World. These methods author presents to further research in the field of...

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

Until the last half century, land development patterns in the Intermountain West were designed after the Mormon settlement pattern. With its gridiron streets and in-town farmsteads, this pattern gave families the opportunity to grow crops and raise a few animals on their one acre or less in town with the added advantage of having a social life. Over the last century, small farms have dwindled and large farms have increased in size. However, in the Intermountain West the farmstead tradition continues with families who grow gardens and raise animals on their large city lots, who value self-sufficiency, and who thrive in wide open spaces. To better understand the land uses and preferences of this population, a research survey was mailed to a sample pool of residents of Cache Valley, Utah who live on large lots with animal rights. They contributed an array of data about their backgrounds and how they are specifically using their land. Their responses validated the existence of a continued agrarian culture and gave insight on how they felt about trends in conservation subdivisions and common open space. A range of opinions about ideal lot size supported rural planners' suggestions to develop lots of varying sizes to meet the needs of a diverse population. Small farms on large lots can be a valuable part of a sustainable urban and rural environment. Local vegetables and agricultural products bring nature and natural processes back to an urban setting and reduce the environmental footprint imposed by extensive shipping. Culturally, small farmers provide a connection to the past and fulfill a lifestyle choice for a rural-minded population. Particularly in the Intermountain West, planners need to integrate these small farms into their developments to preserve the rural character of towns and cities of the region.