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Entered keyword "urban and rural studies" yielded 54 results.
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Bernard, Josef
The development of the Czech countryside differs in many ways from trajectories typical for Eastern and Central European rural areas in the last 25 years. In our article, we discuss the nature of the ‘Czech exceptionalism’, with reference to three examples, namely...
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Authors: Křížková, Ivana, Klsák, Adam, Šimon, Martin
Příspěvek se zaměřuje na stěhování a rezidenční mobilitu cizinců v Praze a Středočeském kraji, kde se soustředí značná část cizinecké populace Česka. Na základě kombinace dvou zdrojů dat ukazuje, že vzhledem ke specifickým prostorovým vzorcům pobytu a pohybu mají cizinc...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Křížková, Ivana, Klsák, Adam
Immigration is one of the most contentious fields of contemporary European urban policy. While the development of urban segregation is well documented in traditional immigration countries with population register data, there is a lack of detailed research on population dynamics i...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Křížková, Ivana, Klsák, Adam
The aim of this text is to describe and compare the residential segregation of foreigners in Prague and Central Bohemian region in years 2012–2018. The distribution of foreigners is measured using a new method of individualized scalable neighbourhoods. This method allows to compa...
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Authors: Ouředníček, Martin, Šimon, Martin, Kopečná, Martina
The concept of reurbanisation is discussed in this article from theoretical and methodological perspectives. Reurbanisation has been defined as one of the stages of urban development recently, but it is also tied to processes of gentrification, or perceived as a policy aimed at t...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr, Jan Váně
This article explores the operation of homeless encampments as a part of governance by highlighting the role of affective atmospheres. The COVID-19 pandemic and the imposition of lockdowns have seen the introduction of unprecedented measures into homelessness governance in Czech...
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Authors: Fernández, Alejandra, Petr Vašát
Macro-paintings have become a popular tool used by various actors to uplift marginalized communities in cities of the global South by transforming their physical environments. These actors operate under the assumption that improving the material conditions of these communities wi...
A Guide to Communication and Participation in Decision-Making on Siting a Deep Geological Repository
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Authors: Ďurďovič, Martin
This guide is the outcome of a project based on qualitative and quantitative empirical research that examined the social embeddedness of decisions about the location and construction of a deep geological repository (DGR) for spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste in the Czech Re...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Jíchová, Jana
This article reports on a new empirical study evaluating crime concentration at places in a postsocialist city. We use principles of the law of crime concentration at places and the Cambridge Crime Harm Index to measure crime count and crime harm concentration at the le...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef
In the chapter the author explains endogenous local development of rural communities and how it relates to the concept of community development. The author then examines the various ways in which local development is defined and some Czech empirical studies based on the terms of...
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Authors: Illner, Michal
The chapter sums up findings of research carried out in different countries on the relationship between community size and the effectiveness of local government, of municipal economy, local democracy and local economic development. It adresses itself to the question of integratio...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Tomáš Kostelecký
In the chapter, the authors present a statistical analysis of the internal development potential of small rural communities or settlements. Drawing on statistical data (census data, election statistics, urban and municipal statistics, demographic statistics, municipal budget stat...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Křížková, Ivana, Klsák, Adam, Mikešová, Renáta, Leontiyeva, Yana
Basic trends in the deployment of foreigners in the Czech Republic 2008-2015: Residential segregation from the perspective of individualized neighbourhoods of various size, by Martin Šimon, Ivana Křížková, Adam Klsák, Renáta Mikešová and Yana LeontiyevaThe number of for...
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Authors: Vobecká, Jana, Josef Bernard, Michal Illner
The chapter summarises the results of three qualitative case studies of local government and the development potential of three selected small municipalities: Verměřovice, Vražkov, Roztoky. The case studies are based on interviews with the main actors of public affairs in the com...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Tomáš Kostelecký, Michal Illner, Jana Vobecká
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision maki...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Michal Illner, Jana Vobecká, Tomáš Kostelecký
The chapter summarises the main findings of the study. It describes the basic factors which impact the development of small rural communities and the main development actors. Local governments are explained as the dominant development actors on the local level. The chapter points...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision maki...
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Authors: Vajdová, Zdenka, Daniel Čermák
Description of a process of municipalities disintegration during 90’s in the CR that happened as an effect of political changes. Basic information covers: 2199 new municipalities emerged as a result of division of 1032 municipalities. Disintegration touched small municipali...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Michal Illner, Tomáš Kostelecký
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision maki...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin
This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters present various themes relating directly to population from a historical perspective, such as dem...
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