A Bridge That Turned Into A Pier. Late Epilogue To Karel Prager's Vision of Prague's Košíře District (1975)

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A Bridge That Turned Into A Pier. Late Epilogue To Karel Prager's Vision of Prague's Košíře District (1975)

Original language description

Karel Prager&apos;s project of the experimental housing development in Košíře (1975) was doomed to be an ultimate failure from the beginning. As a specific variation of Yona Friedman&apos;s vision of the &quot;city above the city&quot;, it was supposed to hover above the town, exploiting inaccessible or built-up terrain, as well as avoiding a costly and painful redevelopment. It promised to be just a small sample of a universal solution for overpopulated cities, as well as a universal construction set for any unforeseen requirements of the future populations. For these purposes, the simple frame utilised the bridge-system, and also relied on the logic of the labyrinth. Yet in doing so, however unintentionally, it both turned the existing city into a second-rate underworld and imposed on its inhabitants a most determinative system of limited variations, trading the burden of architectural responsibility for the apparent freedom of combinatorics. The essay analyses both the key structural elements of the superstructure - the bridge, the labyrinth, the environmental aspect - and the logic of the megastructural movement which presents a proper context for Prager&apos;s vision.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Lidé města / Urban People

ISSN

1212-8112

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

353-377

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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