The fifth volume of Industrial Topography is devoted to the Olomouc Region. Book localizes 757 buildings and sites in 402 items, contains 8 maps and 453 images.

The book is part of a project carried out by the Research Centre for Industrial Heritage at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University with the support of the Ministry of Culture’s programme of applied research on national and cultural identity (NAKI). Its objective is to map industrial heritage in the regions of the Czech Republic. It identifies values and draws attention to the heritage passed down from the industrial age and it seeks opportunities for their adapted new use.

Lukáš Beran – Vladislava Valchářová – Jan Zikmund (edd.), Industrial Topography / Olomouc Region, Prague 2013.

306 pages; Czech, English/German introduction and editorial; 453 images; ISBN 978-80-01-05230-3 / authors Lukáš Beran, Klára Brůhová, Dita Dvořáková, Benjamin Fragner, Hana Hlušičková, Vendula Jurášová, Robert Kořínek, Irena Lehkoživová, Zuzana Křenková, Martina Potůčková, Tomáš Řepa, Milan Starec, Milan Škobrtal, Vladislava Valchářová, Petr Vorlík, Jan Zikmund, Aneta Zlámalová, Michal Zlámaný / proofreading Hana Hlušičková / translation Robin Cassling, Susanne Spurná / scientific review Pavel Halík / graphic design Jan Forejt / typesetting and print Studio Element / published by the Research Centre for Industrial Heritage FA CTU Prague in conjunction with the Technical Monuments Committee of the Czech Chamber of Certified Engineers and Technicians and the Czech Union of Civil Engineers and the Association of Historical Settlements in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia

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