What's in a Prague street name

Nad spádem was built in 1925.

‘Spád’ can be translated as ‘momentum, ‘speed’, ‘cadence’, ‘flow’ and much else besides.

In the context of this street, it would be a ‘gradient’, ‘slope’, etc., and ‘Nad spádem’ denotes that the street is above one.

Continuing the theme of publishing companies quite liking setting up their headquarters in Podolí, number 10 is the home of PROSTOR, which focuses on publishing social science works, as well as publishing journalism and fiction.