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Authors: Gibas, Petr, Boumová, Irena
In this article we explore how nature becomes part of the city through the example of allotment gardening in the city of Prague, in the Czech Republic. Prague allotments were established based on an ongoing political‐ecological process of urbanization of nature that was locally d...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
‘Homeless’ people are usually considered as citizens without property. The absence of ownership, especially in terms of housing, co-creates the very idea of homelessness in current societies. Despite this fact, ‘homeless’ citizens negotiate and experience their property, things,...
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Authors: Roberto Cibin, Sarah Robinson, Nicola J. Bidwell, Conor Linehan, Laura Maye, Nadia Pantidi, Maurizio Teli
Recent HCI scholarship has critiqued anthropocentrism in design as contributing to the ecological crisis. The current paper contributes theoretically and empirically to this area, adopting the lens of Socio-Ecological Relations, inspired by Environmental History and STS. We argue...
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Authors: Decker, Anja
Rural studies have shown considerable interest in the implications the eventization of agriculture has for both rural communities and the agri-food system in the Global North. To contribute to the debate on the transformative potential of agri-food events such as farm festivals a...
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Authors: Gibas, Petr
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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: Kingsley, Jonathan, Donati, Kelly, Litt, Jill, Shimpo, Naomi, Blythe, Chris, Vávra, Jan, Caputo, Silvio, Milbourne, Paul, Diekmann, Lucy O., Rose, Nick, Fox-Kämper, Runrid, van den Berg, Agnes, Metson, Geneviève S., Ossola, Alessandro, Feng, Xiaoqi, Astell-Burt, Thomas, Baker, Amy, Lin, Brenda B., Egerer, Monika, Marsh, Pauline, Pettitt, Philip, Scott, Theresa L., Alaimo, Katherine, Neale, Kate, Glover, Troy, Byrne, Jason
There is a significant amount of evidence highlighting the health, wellbeing and social benefits of gardening during previous periods of crises. These benefits were also evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents a narrative review exploring gardening during the ea...
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Authors: Chelcea Liviu, Slavomíra Ferenčuhová and Gruia Bădescu
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Šimon, Martin
The spatial concentration of social disadvantage in rural areas not only poses a risk to social cohesion but also represents a challenge for public policy. This article draws on a multidimensional concept of disadvantage to study spatial aspects of disadvantage in Czech rural are...
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Authors: Kostelecký, Tomáš, Vobecká, Jana
Social inequalities have increased in the Czech Republic since the collapse of communism. While this has not led to an intensification of territorial inequalities, yet the analysis of the Prague metropolitan area presented in this chapter shows that pressure toward socio-spatial...
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Authors: Josef Bernard, Tomáš Kostelecký, Martin Šimon
Článek se věnuje problematice kontextových vlivů na volební chování. V části českéodborné literatury bylo konstatováno, že vliv prostorového kontextu na volební chování v Česku je nevýrazný a že převážnou část teritoriální diferenciace volebních výsledků lze vysvětlit j...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin
The article focuses on Czech/German ethnic boundary from former interwar Czechoslovakia and its persistence (or transience) in electoral behaviour in selected post-1989 elections. In the analytical part of the article links between populations in regions and electoral r...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin
Historický atlas obyvatelstva českých zemí je jedním z prvních děl hodnotících prostorové aspekty téměř stoletého vývoje obyvatelstva na dnešním území Česka. V celkem dvanácti kapitolách jsou ve vývojovém srovnání představena témata jako migrace, demografická, ekonomická a kultur...
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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: 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: Šimon, Martin
Téma odchodu z města na venkov je nejen námětem filmových či románových příběhů, ale je také předmětem geografického výzkumu. Předložený text si klade za cíl ukázat, kteří lidé nejčastěji odcházejí z města na venkov a jaké k tomu mají důvody. Na příkladech analýzy vyprá...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr, Petr Gibas
Časoprostor bývá základní konceptuální optikou, jakou je v sociálních vědách na bezdomovectví nahlíženo. Většina studií věnovaných vztahu bezdomovectví a časoprostoru ale chápe tento vztah nediferencovaně, tzn., dle našeho názoru dostatečně neproblematizuje jeho individuální...
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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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