Jižní Město

Jižní Město (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪʒɲiː ˈmɲɛsto], colloquially Jižňák or Jižák and abbreviated JM) is a panel housing estate situated in an open area in the southeast of Prague.

The housing built was still not enough to satisfy the huge volume of workers, so at the beginning of the 1970s construction began on further blocks in an empty meadow between Chodov and Háje.

At the time when the flats began to be available to the Czechoslovak people, the construction was still not entirely finished, a reality documented in Věra Chytilová's 1979 documentary film Panelstory,[2] which is set in Sídliště JM I during its teething stages.

[3] Their exterior was painted according to an artistic code devised by architects Zelený and Rothbauerová, which coloured different areas of the estate black, brown, red and green, an analogy to the traditional elements Sun, Water, Earth and Air.

Jižní Město is served by Roztyly, Chodov, Opatov and Háje stations, the final four stops on the southern end of Line C of the Prague Metro.