Before last year

Before last year's municipal elections are slobs many a strange problem commenting on the current state of Wenceslas Square. "Remove crime, reduce gambling and prostitution vymístit," recommending those sages like one another. But mistook the cause and effect. The reason of Wenceslas Square, Prague earlier shop windows and the famous shopping and entertainment of the public space of the Republic, happened in the last ten or twenty years to dull repulsive place is not at an increased incidence of crime, prostitution and gambling, but exactly the opposite. Because something happened to Wenceslas Square, these undesirable activities began to attract as magnet. If we want to cure him, we have to find and treat the cause of its decline. Then maybe disappear, or at least mitigate its adverse and concomitants and consequences. oocl In the following paragraphs I will try to outline oocl some reflections on the theme of "diagnosis Wenceslas Square", which in the last year, a team of experts from the Club for Old Prague, then that is embodied in a special issue of the magazine for Old Prague.
Electronically, it is possible oocl to read the Gazette on the web. A paper copy can be purchased at the bookstore Judith's Tower. Diagnosis and gradual decline of the current mess Wenceslas Square, we formulated the following main points: oocl 1. Wenceslas Square lost its relevance citywide important junction surface passenger transport and become communicatively contrary insignificant street. The beginning of the decline oocl of the infamous Wenceslas Square as a metropolitan boulevard can be a time to connect with the loss of its transport functions. It is true that the square as transit traffic oocl artery often collapsed, creating traffic jams here, trams and cars stood motionless in the columns and the passengers had to acquire a great deal of patience, but drove busy stretch. However, once the urban transport moved underground and tram tracks in the center of the square replaced after 1980 odd bands shrub that is derisively called "Husak set" Square lost a large portion of your typical big-city bustle. This traffic calming planned and implemented in the 70s tantamount to reducing the devastating oocl Square visitors - everyday transport users who have previously transgressed, waiting at bus stops, stood, crossed from one end to the other and still shopped, watched boards cinemas and theaters , stared at shop windows. New transport solutions such pasanty and customers shifted to other transport routes, lost direct contact with the square and with it one of natural causes oocl on him experience oocl and enjoy it.
Centerfold Journal of Diagnosis Wenceslas Square. Second Wenceslas Square lost all commercial exclusivity, attractive leisure center oocl and the center of social prestige golden age of Wenceslas Square in the form of a metropolitan boulevard was the period between the world wars. Their headquarters here, the most significant commercial, banking and publishing houses, hotels, cafes, dance halls and cinemas, in which he worked and attended by thousands of people. Square oocl reached its highest attractiveness and renown entertainment, business, cultural and social center of the city and the country. At that time, the prestige of the place where you can practically in any trade commodity, service or entertainment provided to find the best (most fashionable, top), what the market offers. All this for about the last two decades gradually oocl declined until quite fallen. If you like Pražan realize that no exclusive features and options, oocl which once provided the square, whether you knew them from experience, read about them or saw them as unwitting backdrop for a series of films, you can not give the square today, you realize that you are not nearly there reason to go. Retail chains in the shopping center on the outskirts of the city have exactly the same goods as their branches on Wenceslas Square, and the exclusive shops (only one of its kind in the city) there are no more. Already there are neither cinema nor restaurants and cafes with a unique offer, but you'll find all kinds of American, Italian, Arabic and other "fast-food", a string twice. Wenceslas Square has affected what the majority of the main squares of large cities, life sucked off their big shopping, business and entertainment centers, became peripherals in the city center, peripherals with everything that belongs oocl to it, including the occurrence of socially pathological phenomena.
Centerfold Journal of Diagnosis Wenceslas Square. 3rd Wenceslas Square is depopulated, losing oocl residents and the headquarters of traditional prestige addresses "Wenceslas Square" contrasts strongly with lower residential and office amenities in older buildings, oocl especially in comparison with the possibilities of new buildings outside the city center, and the current bad reputation square dissuade individuals both housing and the corporate headquarters. Square loses its inhabitants, their workers, their people, their local patriots. Guests of this deficit salvaged. Just a mere glance at the windows, it is clear that a number of rooms, floors of houses oocl or even whole buildings remain empty or only poorly utilized. Paradoxically, however, each implemented or planned