The central idea of this project named “My way home” (the project’s name was inspired by Karel Václav Rais’s poem of the same name) is the work with the memory of a landscape. The project concerns a 700-metre-long area which is part of what used to be a road near Stráž nad Nežárkou. First of all, I try to return the road its original purpose. Also, I try to find out its historic foundation. Finally, I try to return the road its integrity. The road used to go from the village of Dvorce to the now cancelled Gabler’s mill (house number 98) in Stráž nad Nežárkou. The Diploma also includes an observation of the changes of the landscape near the village. The Diploma itself consists of three phases: The road, apple trees, The object.

Charles University in Prague Faculty of Science Department of Social Geography and Regional Development Robin Rašín The Landscape of the Czech-Austrian Borderland: Development and Heritage Summary Roztoky u Křivoklátu 2010 1 Landscape is a key geographical concept and geographical research on land change and land use has a tradition that can be dated back for almost a hundred years. The development of the subject orientation of land change science can be divided into two phases. (i) During the first phase (50's/60's of the 20th century) the description of landscape and its morphology (structure) were at the centre of research interest along with the research of the potential for agro-production. This particular type of study was motivated by the need to find a solution to the problem of the increasing inability to supply a growing (European) population with agricultural products. (ii) In the second phase (circa from 70's of the 20th century), the attention of scientists towards the accelerated rate of land change on a global scale that can be associated with: the increase of human population, changes in agricultural techniques, mining, environmental exploitation et cetera. There is an obvious need to solve the negative impacts of the human activities on the landscape at different scales (from local to...

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(in English): This thesis solves the fundamental questions in research on castles and factual example in the form of Týřov. It deals with the history and architectural development of the castle, including a discussion of the origin of architectural traditions, which in previous works considered for the import of French architecture. A substantial part is dealing with the castle in the landscape, where the emphasis is on natural conditions, which give structural form of the castle. Another aspect that has been solved in this work is to establish a castle on the local infrastructure and major traffic junctions, or obstacles (fords, etc.), Including a link to the village maids and raw materials. In the studio castles are often accentuated features of the castle. In addressing this issue we must address its structural form, infrastructure, facilities, raw material and inventory of the castle, which reports on the social status of its inhabitants. The last part is the processing of the selected file material. This process yielded pottery dating the 13th century, which still missing in the region. The processed material is also evidenced by the daily life of the inhabitants of the castle.

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...

The theoretical part of this thesis defines cultural tourism and its background in the Czech Republic, concerning external aspects influencing this branch of tourism. One of the subbbranches, garden tourism, is described more thoroughly. Furthermore its current state in the Czech republic and other European countries is discussed and compared, resulting into a series of improvement suggestions for the Czech Republic. The last part is dedicated to the established methodology and its usage for the purpose of presenting and interpreting garden art sights based on the state-of-art knowledge and trends in this research field. Methodology descibed in the theoretical part is used for the practical research of this thesis - it describes the way of interpeting and presenting specific sights of garden art. As the subject matter two different subjects were chosen - chateau garden in Mikulov and composed coutryside of Mikulov-Falkenstein. The goal was to describe different ways of presenting these kinds of objects. Graphical presentation was also created for both objects.

This diploma thesis deals with concept of landscape memory in microregion Dačicko, situated in south-eastern part of South Bohemia. The theoretical part contains a research based on relevant sources, in which the specific terms associated with landscape memory of rural area are described in detail. The essential information about the microregion, its nature protection and landscapes, is also provided in this part. The detailed description and comparison of two selected cadastral municipalities are provided in the practical part. The comparative method is used to describe natural conditions and land use development in both cadastral municipalities. It is followed by the analysis of semi-standardized interviews with long-term inhabitants and local landscape values identification. The values are subsequently drawn into maps of the cadastral municipalities. Current state of the landscape values has been explored during the field investigations. The final part is dedicated to several suggestions for creating, preserving and renewing landscape values in both areas.

The thesis deals with the issue of dispersed greenery, its division and function in the landscape. By the research method has been characterized 6 selected localities. The coefficient of ecological stability and its changes since 1990 has been calculated for selected localities and then compared by the comparative method. The main aim was to map the state and changes of dispersed greenery (mainly woody plants) along the railway tracks. The condition of greenery along railway tracks and its unkeep was evaluated and compared, which is primarily aimed at keeping the greenery in a condition ensuring safety and continuity of the rail traffic. An integral part of the thesis is a proposal of measures for greenery along the tracks.

The general aim of this thesis is to estimate nature of the man - landscape relationship in selected parts of the Novohradsko region. In the process of working on this thesis, many aspects, which could influence this connection, were considered. One of them was the forced transfer of German population from Czechoslovakia to Germany and Austria after World War II. Different extent of this process was the key to selection of the studied cadastral units. These cadasters were examined from the point of landscape changes and various landscape heritage comparison. The reason for this study was the complexity of the man - landscape relationship and the different aspects which can determine the nature of it. The results were confronted with the local people's perception by interviews. The thesis is structured into several parts. One of the crucial is the theoretical chapter, which presents the various attitudes to landscape, mainly those which emphasize land use discipline, landscape heritage, landscape memory and territorial identity. All these phenomenons appear in the other parts of the thesis. At first, the land use analysis in the South-Bohemian Borderland is made, then selected cadasters are examined in this way as well. An overview of the most important landscape heritage in those units follows....

Přízřenice, Česká Bělá), Slovakia (Bíňa Čata) and The detection of climatic changes within the glacial palaeosols of the Bíňa Čata locality was Přízřenice, made of Phaeozem and Chernozem with intensive anthropogenic influence methods. In the case of medieval alluvial sediments in the Březina floodplain near Česká Bělá,