In female gender: Milota Sidorova (podcast_SK)

Have you ever wondered how different men, women, children and seniors live and work in cities and suburbias? Do you know how these groups usually move around the city and what obstacles they have to face? To what extent do we realize how bad the city's infrastructure, the cars on the sidewalks or the lack of large trees make our lives worse? In this edition of the Female Gender, with the urban planner Milota Sidorova, we will talk about livable cities, the women's view of the profession, the world around us, and how important it is to support women in the profession.

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Restless Cities: Lessons from Central Europe, Bratislava (book launch_EN)

Restless Cities: Lessons from Central Europe is a publication edited by Milota Sidorová and Zdeňka Lammelová that reflects a year-long training programme of the Prague office of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation focusing on understanding the political aspects of urban planning in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. It consists of four thematic chapters that offer introductions into social housing in Brno, participatory processes in Prague, urban development of Bratislava and influencing strategies in Budapest.

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Without Urban Greenery We Will Not Be Able To Deal with Sudden Stormfalls (interview_SK)

Climate change is beginning to affect our daily lives. For example, this summer it happened to me that I had to cancel a meeting with my colleague from Piešťany because she could not come to Bratislava. Because of the extreme heat, the tracks broke and trains got stuck. The tracks were simply not designed for temperatures of new summers. This is a practical demonstration of the impact of climate change on today's technology. Today we do not need to make cosmetic repairs, plant trees or flowers in pots, pour black asphalt roads - what we see in Bratislava. We have to get underground. This means bringing together and involving all those in charge of urban networks, that's the beginning.

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City Has to Serve Everyone, Bratislava Serves People in Cars, Says Urbanist and Landscape Architect Milota Sidorová (interview_SK)

Who rides by car in the city? Who spends time in the parks? Who uses public transport? Who are the people who spend the most time in the city during the day? These are questions that should be the starting point for any public space intervention or urban design. With the urbanist and landscape architect Milota Sidorová, we talked about the topic of gender-sensitive planning. For example, she explained why it is important for girls and boys to play on the playgrounds.

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The Time Has Come For Young Generation to Change Our Cities (Interview_SK)

It is very difficult to catch Milota. Just shortly before our conversation in a pleasant interior block of Panenská Street, she returned from Japan. We spent an hour's interview mainly on Bratislava and its upcoming changes. A public space expert perceives very sensitively non-systemic solutions for managing cities and neglecting the needs of weaker groups in city planning. She believes that Bratislava will also benefit from the positive experience with the transformation of the Prague self-government and the streets of Ljubljana.

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Feminism x City, Košice (debate_SK)

Together with the team Spolka, we have prepared a series of lectures for you "Mestoláska", about life in the city, urban planning through the themes of democracy, equality, transparency and opportunities in the city. We give the city its attention because its future is about the everyday about establishing relationships. In the third lecture Feminist City / Sexist City, we welcome architect Milota Sidorova - a freelance urban planner who, as an urban planning consultant, helps fine-tune public, private and non-governmental projects, especially in Central and Eastern Europe.

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How to Design a Fair Shared City? Prague (networking event)

We cordially invite you to an event, the first of its kind - aimed at networking and sharing experiences, organized by prominent Czech and international organizations involved in raising awareness of gender equality, architecture and spatial planning. How to design a fair shared city? What is gender mainstreaming? How can we use its principles to improve the quality of architectural practice and spatial planning and thus the quality of life in cities?

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Is There Enough of Greenery in Bratislava? Bratislava (debate)

In the discussion held at the Slovak Technical University we spoke about opportunities and obstacles how can Bratislava become greener city. Guests: Zuzana Hudekova, Boris Hrban, Dasa Effenbergerova, Patrik Krizansky, Michal Marcinov. Moderator: Milota Sidorova Language: Slovak

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Design Thinking, Culture Led Urban Development, Kosice (debate)

I presented a critical evaluation and patterns of participation case study of Dvorakovo nabrezi I concluded early spring in Prague. Where are joint moments of agreement among motivations of property owners, public, politicians? How do we increase the trust among parties and what are the costs of all of this? 

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Shared Governance. Urban Activism 2.0, Tallinn

Past years we, Central Europeans come across urban projects sharing similar features: blending edges of responsibilities, financing and know how between non-governmental, private & public sector. What we can learn from it and how we can improve our understanding of the other party?  Language: English

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Brownfields, Those common and creative ones, Prague (lecture)

When we are talking about brownfields we tend to confuse them with creative clusters and there is a certain unstoppable idealism that each brownfield can be revitalized by cultural interference. Let's have a little methodical insight into brownfield status quo in Czech Republic and Prague particularly. Language: Slovak

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