Suburbanisation processes in Prague urban region

Title

Suburbanisation processes in Prague urban region

Project start date

01/01/2004

Project end date

31/12/2006

Contributing country

Czech Republic

Covering city

Prague

Keywords

Suburban development, suburbanisation migration, post-socialist city, Pragu

Introduction

The project is concerned with analysis of urbanisation processes in Prague urban region during transformation period and in 2000-2005 periods. It is based on analysis of migration data and comparison of two latest population censuses held in 1991 resp. 2001 and also on case studies of selected neighbourhoods in Prague urban region.

Summary

Main attention is put on suburbanisation and suburban development and their impact on the change of socio-spatial structure. Project modifies and empirically tests theoretical approaches of urban research - theory of stages of urban development and theory of differential urbanisation. Main outputs of this project are book of selected topics, series of articles, www pages and conference papers. Particular stress is paid on cooperation with pre-gradual and post-gradual students of social geography. Results of project will be useful for two university courses - Urbanisation and urban development and Social geography of Prague.

Approach

The core project is the following three main objectives:

1. to develop and to validate  the theoretical approaches focus on the processes of urbanization and the socio-spatial structure of urban regions,  particularly on the example of post-socialist cities;

2. to continue with the empirical researches of the urbanization of the population in the Prague urban region in the present, focusing on detailed study of selected sites strongly influenced by urbanization processes, especially with emphasis on the study of suburbanization and suburban development ;

3. to present the results to Czech and foreign professional public and use the results of research in the universities, engaging students in scientific research.

Results

Many studies, papers and publications were published by the research team as a result of the project. The links to the relevant document are provided below.

Organisation

Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science

Department of Social Geography and Regional Development

Contact person

RNDr. Martin Ouředníček, Ph.D.

Phone

+420221951378

E-mail

slamak@natur.cuni.cz

Links (text)

URRlab is a research working group associating social geographers.

Links (URL)

http://www.urrlab.cz/?prague_en=

Attachments

http://web.natur.cuni.cz/~slamak/gacr/weimar.html

http://web.natur.cuni.cz/~slamak/gacr/annaler.pdf

http://web.natur.cuni.cz/~slamak/gacr/selma.pdf

http://web.natur.cuni.cz/~slamak/gacr/index.html