Planning
The Metropolitan Plan, zoning decisions and city strategy.
With the Metropolitan Plan in Force, IPR Splits Prague Into Four Offices and Moves Its Weight to Planning Contracts
The city's planning institute has reorganised around the work the new zoning plan creates: one team per quarter of Prague that follows each site from study to negotiation with the developer. The section will also own future changes to the plan.
Prague Finishes the Expert Round on Its Public Lighting Concept, With Darkness Now an Explicit Constraint
IPR has closed the first stage of updating the city's lighting concept: two workshops that put lighting engineers in a room with chronobiologists, ecologists and traffic specialists. The brief came from the city assembly, and the drafting starts now.
Prague 10 Signs Six Residents' Associations Into the Redevelopment of the Town Hall It Sold
The district sold the derelict old town hall, the Eden cultural centre and the land around them for 1.117 billion crowns in June. On 29 September it signed an agreement with six owners' associations from the Vlasta estate, who are to take part in preparing the architectural competition.
Seven Degrees Between Staré Město and Ruzyně: IPR Publishes the Heat Data It Wants New Districts Designed Against
Prague had 29 tropical days and 12 tropical nights between May and September. The planning institute's new storymap sets out the three methods behind the numbers — weather stations, satellites, and a model that computes street-level air temperature from the city's 3D model — and its director says the point is to catch the risky sites at design stage.
IPR Has Mapped 239 Kilometres of Vanished Paths in Prague, and the City Owns 141 of Them
A new study from IPR's landscape office, Cesty, reconstructs the field and pilgrim routes erased by collectivisation and building. In the wider metropolitan area 3,673 kilometres have gone; inside Prague the lost network still exists in the cadastre, mostly on city land.
The Metropolitan Plan Is Now Binding — and the Architect Who Drew It Says It Lost the Thing It Was For
Prague's new zoning document replaced the 1999 plan on 1 September. IPR calls the result predictable flexibility. Roman Koucký, Arnika and a deputy mayor each object to a different part of it, and the property lobby's complaint is the opposite one.
CityDeal Goes from Five Cities to Twelve, and Starts Arguing About Who Sets the Rules
The planning-office platform IPR helped start has more than doubled. Its stated ambition has shifted from swapping tips to reopening where responsibility for planning should sit — with cities or with the state.
Three Thousand Kilometres of Lost Paths: IPR Maps What Prague Could Simply Reopen
A new IPR study finds more than 3,000 km of vanished historical routes in Prague and its metropolitan area — and more than half of them are still municipally owned. Mayors got the material in June.
Fourteen Years in the Making, Prague's Metropolitan Plan Takes Effect on 1 September
The document replacing a zoning system conceived a century ago clears the way for 350,000 new homes — and pushes them onto brownfields rather than the open countryside.