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The ongoing pressure on building new shopping centres and office complexes is seen as a threat to the lively metropolitan structure and to the transport network. The new European trends is to mix compact construction with lower capacity facilities. Newly constructed and reconstructed big capacities of retail outlets and offices, such as the newly opened Palladium complex, place emphasis on traffic because of parking demands and with their 100% built-up land they limit areas for new parks or greenery for the relaxation of local inhabitants and workers. Due to greater interest in shopping complexes the survival of existing parks in the Prague city centre is endangered as well. | The ongoing pressure on building new shopping centres and office complexes is seen as a threat to the lively metropolitan structure and to the transport network. The new European trends is to mix compact construction with lower capacity facilities. Newly constructed and reconstructed big capacities of retail outlets and offices, such as the newly opened Palladium complex, place emphasis on traffic because of parking demands and with their 100% built-up land they limit areas for new parks or greenery for the relaxation of local inhabitants and workers. Due to greater interest in shopping complexes the survival of existing parks in the Prague city centre is endangered as well. | ||
A negative trend is the low support of the private sector in | A negative trend is the low support of the private sector in meeting the financially less attractive functions of the city, which includes public facilities, greenery and recreation areas. There is also a mismatch between customer interest in traditional dispersed retail networks and the new fashion for travelling to big shopping centres on the outskirts of Prague which generates traffic congestion and so causes damage to the environment. | ||
A problem solvable by the Master Plan is insufficient coordination of store and logistic areas in the city surroundings. What is beyond the competences of the plan, however, is regulation of retail network in favour of smaller units, as well as the pressure of economic land use at the expense of urban aspects and environmental protection. | A problem solvable by the Master Plan is insufficient coordination of store and logistic areas in the city surroundings. What is beyond the competences of the plan, however, is regulation of retail network in favour of smaller units, as well as the pressure of economic land use at the expense of urban aspects and environmental protection. | ||