Stavitel nového světa. Vladimír Zákrejs a československý urbanismus 1918-19381

• Authors: Ivo Cerman

Title variants

EN

The builder of a new world. Vladimír Zákrejs and Czechoslovak urbanism 1918-1938

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the activities of the Institute for the Construction of Cities and its president Vladimír Zákrejs (1880–1948). It explains the origins of the urbanism movement and its connection with the republican empiricism of the era. It provides examples of Zákrejs’s activities in Czech towns and reconstructs the arguments of his inedited manuscript „The Czechoslovak Repulic as an urban building site“. It proves that Zákrejs left the Institute already in 1927 and continued in his activities as an independent urban planner until 1933. His comprehensive approach was replaced by a technocratic tendency, which put emphasis on transport, and a left- -leaning tendency, which focused on housing.

Keywords

EN

urbanism; environmentalism; Institute for the Construction of Cities; Masaryk’s Academy of Labour; Vladimír Zákrejs; Cyrus Kehr

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 117
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 992-1029
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ivo  Cerman

• Český časopis historický, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic