Historic Town’s Atlas of the Czech Republic, vol. 32, Ústí nad Labem

The 32nd volume of the Historic Town’s Atlas of the Czech Republic is on Ústí nad Labem, a former royal city formed in the 13th century from an agglomeration linked to long-distance trade routes to Saxony. The medieval town was undergoing a major transformation thanks to the rapid development of industry and transport since the 19th century, but the devastating air raids at the end of the Second World War and the efforts to build a new socialist city in the second half of the 20th century were crucial to its urban transformation. Ústí nad Labem, with its fundamentally transformed original historical centre and the circle of prefabricated housing estates on the hills around it, is one of the most urbanistically transformed medieval royal towns in Bohemia. This transformation, though not always positive, together with the dynamic surroundings of the city, is somewhat unique.
The structure of the atlas is analogous to all previous volumes. The opening historical and urban study is accompanied by black-and-white illustrations, while the core of the atlas consists of map sheets containing reproductions of old and reconstruction maps. The atlas is equipped with standard scientific apparatus (a detailed list of published map and picture materials with comments and a selected bibliography on the history of the town). The work is also accessible to foreign readers: essential parts of the atlas and a summary of the opening study have been translated into English and German.

The sale of this volume is handled by the Historical Department of the Faculty of Arts at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem.