Housing development along the railway at U Morašická Road in Litomyšl (“Husovka”) A more expansive development of building activity in Litomyšl was restricted by an absence of a modern regulatory, urban plan. The situation improved after the First World War when the town had at its disposal a project by Jaroslav Pantoflíček – a surveyor, and professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague – and the architect Vladimír Zákrejs. They proposed three new quarters: the representative Masaryk Quarter, as a counterpart to the Chateau Hill (trail 04), and two residential quarters – the Fügnerova and Husova Quarters. The latter, on the western outskirts of the town, was worked out in detail by Pantoflíček's Prague colleague Antonín Ausobský in 1927.
Due to the irregular terrain, Ausobský could not base the street layout on a strictly rational, regular, geometric grid. In spite of connecting most of the streets at right angles, his design feature of a curved connecting tract in
The most active construction period in “Husovka” was from 1928 to 1929 when several detached, semi-detached and terraced houses were built. There was even space for a small apartment block (No. 715), built in 1929 for the Town bank according to designs by the Prague architect Josef Mařík. The original flat-roofed building was incorporated as a focal point into the main Míru Street and contained eight flats (a recent reconstruction has completely changed the look of the building today). Although the new houses constructed in “Husovka” are in no way architectonically exceptional, they offered dozens of mainly middle-class families the opportunity to live in a harmonic, healthy environment.
Ausobský proposed setting all the buildings in gardens. He also planned strips of greenery along the pavements, around the wells, in the central space around a small playground, and as a “verge” around the quarter itself. His concept was close to the English Garden City concept, whose advocates attempted to achieve “idyllic geniality”, housing which is “modest, but of sufficient area, airy and sunlit” and housing “within reach of the less well-off”. He considered the semi-detached house the ideal architectonic choice.
The actual building development of this quarter of the town, however, adopted very little from Antonín Ausobský's original urban plan.