2024, Volume 58, Number 3–4

2024, Volume 58, Number 3 – 4

Scientific studies

The Historicist Architecture of the Grand Boulevard in Budapest and Its Urbanistic Significance

Enikő Tóth
The legacy of Hungarian historicist architecture has only attracted the attention of researchers in the past few decades. Although the…

Urban Transitions in Kraków in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries: The Inner and Outer Rings

Michał Baczkowski
Significant changes took place in the urban space of Kraków in the 19th and first half of the 20th century,…

Tendencies in Urban Fabric Extension at the Turn of the Century and Beyond: Networks and Centralization in the Urban Planning of the 11th District of Budapest

Domonkos Wettstein, Károly Zubek
South Buda (11th district of Budapest), as an artificially designed district, displays a revealing combination of urban design tendencies at…

The Hungária Ring Road of Budapest

Mariann Simon
In 1872, the Metropolitan Public Works Council decided on three rings for the capital of Budapest: the inner ring (Small…

The Green Rings of Budapest

Balázs Almási, Krisztina Szabó, Péter István Balogh, Orsolya Fekete Bagdiné
Though several attempts were made to create the Budapest Green Ring, it was never realized, keeping the green spaces of…

From Functional Urban Planning to the Art of Shaping Cities: The Ring Roads of Antal Palóczi in Miskolc and Budapest

Éva Lovra
The study is focused on the unrealized plans for ring roads in Buda and Miskolc created by Antal Palóczi at…

The History and Context of the Brno Ring Boulevard

Adam Guzdek
Frequently compared to Vienna’s Ringstrasse, the Brno ring boulevard must nonetheless – despite the shared association with Ludwig Förster –…

A Lost Opportunity: The Case of the Košice Ring Road

Ján Sekan
The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive view of the development of ring boulevards in Košice, to…

Open Spaces, Green Areas: The Szeged Circular Embankment as a Green Ring in the Plans of Endre Pálfy-Budinszky

Anna Váraljai
In 1879, the Hungarian city of Szeged was destroyed by the flooding Tisza River, necessitating its rebuilding from Lajos Lechner’s…

Replacing a River Canal with an Urban Highway: The “Gottwaldova Street” Ring Road in Košice as a Historical Urban Design Mistake from the 1960s

Ondrej Ficeri
Until the1960s, the east Slovak city of Košice displayed a ring road system, largely inspired by the models of Vienna…

Urban Rings as Indicators of Urban Transformation: The City of Nikšić, Montenegro

Vladimir Bojković
After liberation from the Ottoman Empire in 1877, Nikšić became part of Montenegro, a sovereign and internationally recognized state after…

An Imperfect Circle: An Investigation into the Variations and Contrarian Phenomena of Several Unique Intrusive Ring Roads

Cornelius Van der Westhuizen
Wherever the circles of car infrastructures have been drawn onto the map of the city, invisible fortress walls have arisen.…

Reviews

An Attempt to Capture the Indistinct

Marta Edith Holečková
Česká architektura v mezičase. Od perestrojky k novým pořádkům[Czech Architecture in Transition. From Perestroika to the New Order],2024Jirkalová, KarolinaPrague: Academy…

A Textbook for a New Discipline and an Overview of a Practitioner’s Research

Melinda Harlov-Csortán
Építészetszociológiaitanulmányok, 2022Tamáska, MátéBudapest: TercISBN 978-615-5445-88-0