ABSTRACT
Of the three towns from the Czech Republic included in this collection, two of them – Cˇeské Budeˇjovice and Telcˇ – were selected for their archetypal public squares. The first type epitomized by Cˇeské Budeˇjovice, as well as Kromeˇrˇízˇ, Kolín and Novy´ Jicˇín, is a typical planned colonial town with a regular, enclosed central square distributed throughout the Bohemian and Moravian kingdoms. The second type epitomized by Telcˇ, like Chleb and Olomouc, is planned but with an elongated, slightly triangular, closed square formed more by topography and existing trade routes. These two representative squares illustrate that Bohemian and Moravian towns followed similar patterns that have remained astonishingly unchanged over the past several centuries. Moreover, despite the differences between centralized or elongated, each town’s square remains successful.
