Regeneration of Historic Areas of Small Cities (Kutná Hora, Pelhřimov, Šumperk) and New Development There at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Context of the Then Considerations on Monument Conservation

The project will seek answers to questions regarding forms of interaction between the then theory of monument conservation and building practice outside Prague at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It will expand and fill in the existing fragmentary knowledge of this issue and, at the same time, it will create conditions for impact assessment of new findings on modern monument conservation. New knowledge will enable to enrich the teaching of monument conservation at FA CTU thus contributing to the improvement of teaching in the area of the treatment of building and urban heritage, it will provide valuable reference material for doctoral thesis of the applicant and it will contribute to strengthening of cultural memory in the surveyed regions.