Rohan City will be a philosophy-inspired district. Streets and parks will be named after important thinkers
The streets and parks in the new Rohan City district being built in Prague 8 on Rohan Island will be named after famous philosophers. They will thus commemorate Czech philosophers such as Jan Sokol, Radim Palouš, Erazim Kohák, Ladislav Hejdánek and J. L. Fischer, as well as world-renowned philosophers like Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Emmanuel Levinas and John Rawls. The new square will be named after French philosopher Simone Weil. Sekyra Group is the investor behind Rohan City, one of the largest urban developments in central Prague and one that aims to become the green centre of the city. The vision of its founder, Luděk Sekyra, was to honour important Czech and world philosophers through the street names. This idea was supported by the Prague 8 municipal district, the Václav Havel Library and a number of prominent figures. The concept for naming the streets and parks has already been approved by a topographical commission and Prague City Council. The Rohan City project will be completed by 2035. It will provide housing and jobs for 11,000 people. The total investment will reach CZK 25 billion.
Since 2021, Sekyra Group has been transforming the former brownfield site on Rohan Island in Prague 8 into a fully-fledged urban district that will include architecturally impressive residences, modern office buildings, premises for services, leisure and sports, a school and extensive green areas. The new green centre of Prague will be created here.
“Philosophy has been my lifelong passion, so I am truly delighted that Rohan City will be a philosophy-inspired district, and apparently the first of its kind. I am very pleased about the acceptance of our proposal to honour important Czech philosophers and great figures of Western thought who have fundamentally shaped the character of our civilisation and our thinking about values, morality, freedom and justice, both through their work and, often, through their attitudes. This is of particular significance at a time when these values are being questioned and shaken to their core. I strive to ensure that the districts we build always express transcendence and a message. The names of prominent personalities already adorn 23 streets and five parks. The Smíchov City project pays tribute to great female figures, and in Žižkov City we would like to honour writers and dissidents,” explains Luděk Sekyra, founder of Sekyra Group, adding with reference to the focus of his charitable activities: “My foundation has long supported philosophy, ethics and human rights, and so I am delighted it will be a partner of the Philosophy Festival that will be held every year in the streets of Rohan City and at our new headquarters, which bears the symbolic name Arché, the philosophical first principle and beginning.”
Find out more in the press release here.
