architecture and urban studies(38)

Praha univerzitní

Prague has been a center of university education for almost seven centuries. It was on April 7, 1348, that Charles IV, King of Bohemia an...

Praha secesní

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Prague underwent a radical transformation, once again becoming a prestigious center for the l...

Praha barokní

Baroque Prague, covers the period in the history of Prague starting with the Battle of White Mountain through the Enlightenment, from 162...

Ruprechtice: veřejný prostor podle mentálních map

The reestablishment of democracy and civic society in the Czech Republic after 1990 was also associated with new challenges concerning th...

Mariánský sloup na Hradčanském náměstí

This monograph presents a complete "biography” of one of the most interesting and largest sculptural and architectural works erected in B...

The Country House Revisited

This monograph provides an insight into English country house fiction by twentieth and twenty-first century authors, with a focus on the ...

Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst

Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Largely unknown small towns, always in the shadow of famous cities, are mostly overlooked by historical research. English, Spanish, Portu...

Heritage and Development Strategies

The Cathedral of St. Vitus at Prague Castle

The Cathedral of St. Vitus at Prague Castle is one of the symbols of the Czech statehood; it is the coronation and burial site of Bohemia...

Praha renesanční

In this book, the scholar paints a vivid picture of Prague at the time when the Jagiellons and first Habsburgs rulers sat on the Bohemian...

Prague: Its Gardens and Parks

The design of Prague’s gardens and parks, including those that belong to palace, castle and monastery complexes, private and public alike...

Smrt a zmrtvýchvstání národa

This monograph focuses on the phenomenon of Slavín, and presents it as a formative point in the national discourse, in which the present ...

Sen o Slavíně v české literatuře a kultuře

Prague: The City and Its River

The appearance, character, and life of Prague, since the birth of the city, has been shaped by the River Vltava. The river enabled the se...