Dr. Jan Dostalík

Jan Dostalík is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He has received degrees in art history, environmental studies, and economics and also worked for three years as a town and country planner for a private urban planning firm.

He specializes in the history of architecture and urban and regional planning in the twentieth century, including overlaps into the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. He focuses particularly on the environmental and social aspects of architecture and urban and regional planning, as well as on eco-friendly spatial theories and practice. Specifically, he looks at what past eco-friendly theories and practices can bring to today's architecture and spatial planning.

He is currently working on the project “Eco-friendly Tendencies in Czechoslovak Urban and Regional Planning (1965–1990).”

RCC Research Project: Developing Research-Oriented Degree Programs at the Faculty of Social Studies

Selected Publications:

• “The Organicists: Planners, Planning, and the Environment in Czechoslovakia (1914–1949).” Planning Perspectives 32, no. 2 (2017): 147–73.
• with Eva Fraňková and Radoslav Škapa. “Editorial: Behavioural Views in Environmentalism.” Sociální studia / Social Studies 12, no. 3 (2015): 5–8. 
• Organická modernita. Ekologicky šetrné tendence v československém urbanismu a územním plánování (1918–1968) (Organic Modernity: Eco-friendly Tendencies in Czechoslovak Urban and Regional Planning [1918-1968]). Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2015.
• “Die pannaturalistische Utopie Ladislav Žáks: Anfänge der Landschafts- und Regionalplanung in der Tschechoslowakei.” Planerin 3 (2014): 47–48.
• with Zbyněk Ulčák. “Biologický universalismus Emanuela Hrušky” (Biological universalism in the work of Emanuel Hruška). Architektúra a urbanizmus 47, no. 1–2 (2013): 52–71.