"City planning requires a comprehensive approach based on the coordination of the different components of the design. It is important for students to learn how to search for and moderate the needs of the city and its inhabitants, to communicate with the client, to know how to take into account the current knowledge of the creation of the environment, understanding its structure and character and the importance of public space and its systemic division," says Michal Kohout.
The publication presents the possibilities of cooperation between the academic sector and municipalities, for which such a process can be a welcome opportunity to gain up-to-date impulses for the further development of their own built environment. Students encounter a real situation, about which they can not only talk with direct participants in the process of urban development of municipalities, but above all, they can indirectly influence the discussion on the concept of the future direction of municipalities in this area with their suggestions.
In the book, the authors summarize their 15 years of experience in teaching studio, knowledge from their practice as an architectural firm, their experience in working with cities, their research activities in the field of housing and sustainable development, and their consulting activities for public administration, the non-profit sector and international organizations. It offers a universal yet unique perspective interpreting this multifaceted issue.
The book will be launched on 15. 12. during the Christmas Literary Café at the FA at 6 p.m., if current anti-epidemic measures allow. Those interested will then be able to buy the book in the faculty bookstore and IKAN partner shop on the ground floor of the New Building of the CTU in Prague, Thákurova 9, Prague 6.
About the book:
Plánování města / Příručka mladého urbanisty - City Planning / The Young Urbanist's Handbook
Authors: Michal Kohout, David Tichý
Collaboration: Filip Tittl, Šárka Doležalová
Publisher: Czech Technical University in Prague in 2021
304 pages
ISBN: 978-80-01-06879-3
