A conference Urban landscape took place in Prague January 20, and was organized by the Institute of History of the ASCR and by Charles University in Prague. Its goal was to present and discuss a range of topics from the intercisciplinary field of science on the juncture between geography and history, called historical geography. and Eva Chodějovská, Robert Šimůnek.
Takto byla s trochou nadsázky nazvána 11. historickogeografická konference, kterou 28. ledna 2015 uspořádaly v prostorách PřF UK na pražském Albertově Výzkumné centrum historické geografie - Historical Geography Research Centre (grantový projekt excelence GA ČR P410/12/G113, jehož řešiteli jsou Historický ústav AV ČR a Katedra sociální geografie a regionálního rozvoje Přírodovědecké fakulty UK) a Komise pro historickou geografii. and Eva Semotanová, Robert Šimůnek.
The paper is aimed at regulated medieval settlements in Scandinavia (named mostly, although not always correctly solskifte). These systems comprehend green villages and row villages as well as regular chessboard-like field arrangements. In these systems each farmer had strips in each furlong. The location of his strip within the furlong was constant in relation to that of other farmers and was determined according to the sequence of houses in the village, counting with reference to the apparent course of the sun across the sky and beginning mostly in the south and east. Widths of the house plots were proportional to fiscal assessment of their farmsteads. For further description of those concepts see English references. Recent research in the Czech Republic revealed signs of applying similar planning principles. This is especially the case of the village of Nová Lhota, founded probably in the first half of the 16th century. Ordering of field strips mirror here the sequence of house plots in the village. Better understanding of genetic links between Scandinavian concepts of medieval landscape planning concepts and similar principles found in central Europe is thus the major task of future research.