The ninth volume of Industrial Topography is devoted to the Vysočina Region. Book localizes 683 buildings and sites in 324 items, contains 5 maps and 473 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 / Vysočina Region, Prague 2014.

273 pages; Czech, English/German introduction and editorial; 473 images; ISBN 978-80-01-05544-1 / authors Lukáš Beran, Jakub Bacík, Benjamin Fragner, Hana Hlušičková, Pavel Jákl, Michal Kamp, Robert Kořínek, Irena Lehkoživová, Viktor Mácha, Miroslav Pavel, Tomáš Řepa, Milan Starec, Vladislava Valchářová, Jan Zikmund, Michal Zlámaný / proofreading Hana Hlušičková / translation Robin Cassling, Susanne Spurná / scientific review Pavel Halík / graphic design Jan Forejt / typesetting Studio Element / print MM Production / 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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