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Influence of the suburbanization process on demographic development and capacities of education facilities in Pragueʼs hinterland
Benáčková, Kristýna ; Špačková, Petra (advisor) ; Ouředníček, Martin (referee)
The objective of the thesis is to study impacts of suburbanization on demographic development of the hinterland of Prague and on capacities of education facilities in selected municipalities. The paper assesses the approaches taken by representatives of these municipalities to set conditions for provision of school and preschool education to their citizens. The demand for civil amenities gradually increases as a result of population growth and specific age structure changes. Many suburban municipalities thus often face the same problem: low capacities of kindergartens and elementary schools caused by a growing population of children. Most research focused on the approaches of seven case study municipalities from the southeastern hinterland of Prague to the solution of the capacity issues. A policy of respective municipalities differs based on the fact whether or not it runs its own school. However, the lack of capacities of education facilities does not generally force the municipalities to regulate a further housing construction and the expansion of the community.
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Analysis of the residential mobility of the young people in Prague's hinterland
Dušek, Petr ; Špačková, Petra (advisor) ; Šimon, Martin (referee)
Analysis of the residential mobility of the young people in Prague's hinterland Abstract This thesis deals with the residential mobility of the young people aged 17-29 in Prague's hinterland. The main aim of this study is to evaluate present and expected future rate of the migration mobility with an emphasis on the migration behavior analysis, chiefly regarding the attitudes and motives of the young people towards prospective move in future. Another aim is to identify groups of the young people with different attitudes to move. First part of the thesis is devoted to the discussion of relevant theoretical approaches. Next chapter introduces applied methods of research: the analysis of statistical data and the semi-structured interview. Empirical part of this study analyses development of migration in Prague's hinterland. The main chapter of the study investigates key factors, which play a role in the process of residential mobility of the young people. Keywords: suburbanization, residential mobility, young people, Prague metropolitan region, interview
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Interactions of developers and mayors of suburban municipalities in hinterland of Prague
Martinovská, Denisa ; Špačková, Petra (advisor) ; Čermák, Zdeněk (referee)
This master's thesis is devoted to the character of the interaction and negotiation about residential development between the municipality representatives and development companies, the key players in the suburban development. As the geographical area for the research were chosen selected municipalities in north-east hinterland of Prague. The theoretical part summarizes the institutional approach, residential suburbanization, spatial planning and the residential development. The practical part consists of the research itself. It was done as the qualitative analysis of the semi-structured interviews with the municipality representatives and development companies. The interviews are then evaluated on the basis of the theoretical thematic analysis. The interaction between developers and mayors is quite complicated because it represents the conflict of private and public interests. This leads to further negotiations. The character of the interaction and also the negotiations are more or less formed by various circumstances. In this thesis have been distinguished four types of interactions. These types differs in the conditions and requirements determination by the mayors and its fulfillment by the development companies. Keywords: suburbanization, spatial planning, developer, development project,...
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The Impact of Citizens' Initiative on the Urban Development The Case Study of Vyšehrad Station
Moravcová, Ivana ; Slámová, Eliška (advisor) ; Špačková, Petra (referee)
The aim of the bachelor theses "Význam občanských iniciativ na rozvoji města - případová studie nádraží Vyšehrad" is to find a way how the citizens' initiative are involved in the development of the city, what resources they use and whether their activity is effective. The theoretical part of the theses introduces the basics of the community theory and research of local development, there is also included an explanation of Czech laws about citizens' initiatives and the urban planning process. The research is based on the case study of Vyšehrad station and involved groups. The main methods were semi-structured interviews with involved subjects and also detailed study of documents and newspaper articles. In the research there were identified three main types of initiatives. Members of citywide associations are mainly professionals. They help locals to be able to fight for their neighborhood and be a successful participant of the urban planning process. Local movements are more powerful because of strong identification with local issues and bigger amount of time and energy of its members. But those groups are not established in the city center because they fight against big projects built in the outskirts of the city. Last group can be called citizens' initiative; those are formed by dissatisfied...
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Young people in the suburb: the case study of Zvole
Dušek, Petr ; Špačková, Petra (advisor) ; Dvořáková, Nina (referee)
Young people in the suburb: the case study of Zvole Abstract This thesis deals with the impact of the process of residential suburbanization on changes in mobility and spatial structure of daily activities of young people. The aim is to assess the nature of some aspects of the social environment, such as character of interactions between original inhabitants and newcomers. The move to the suburban areas resulted in the need for frequent commuting to Prague to schools and services. The research showed that young people are limited by the public transport in their daily movement. The social interactions of the newcomers and the indigenous people are limited, however, it is possible to anticipate their positive development. Keywords: suburbanization, young people, spatial mobility, everyday life
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Changes in Development of Urban Spatial Structure after 1990 - the Case Study of 5 Towns in South Bohemia
Kopecká, Zuzana ; Ilík, Jan (advisor) ; Špačková, Petra (referee)
The thesis is focused on changes of spatial urban structure in context of post socialist transformation. The most important phenomena which affect the character of post socialist cities in the two last decades were pointed out on the base of studied literature. The development of the phenomena was examined as a case study of five towns in the Czech Republic. The election of the cities encompasses - Benešov, Jindřichův Hradec, Pelhřimov, Písek and Tábor. The research was pointed on the following features: new residential areas, the quality of estates and its regeneration, the changes caused by industry restructuring, the revitalization of brownfields, the new localization trends of retail and the city centre utilization changes. The aim of the thesis is considering the influence of process diffusion from the capital city. The results of the research indicated some trends of the studied features development. However the intensity of progressing changes was too marginal to assign definite conclusion.
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Reforms in Turkey under the EU membership vision 1995 - 2005
Špačková, Petra ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
The thesis "The Reforms in Turkey under the EU membership vision, 1995 - 2005" charts the sphere of political, social and economical reforms in Turkey. The reforms were divided into the three waves, which were started by, in EU - Turkey relations framework, breaking events (1995 - Custom union Agreement, 1999 - Turkey has obtained the candidate state statut, 2003 - pro-european R. T. Erdogan began the turkish Prime minister). This thesis also touches the EU member states positions to possible Turkey EU membership, which are often ambivalent. Neither the impact of turkish membership in Union (on EU functioning, on Turkey internal progress etc.) is omitted. The work summarized these important conclusions: 1) In the interest of Turkey's accession to the European Union really extensive reforms were realized and they are still realizing in this country. Compared to other accessive countries these reforms cover much larger sphere of life and they are much more extensive. 2) The focal point of reforms in Turkey is still in the legislative level (resp. theoretical level) - not in the practical life, where the reforms are realized very slowly. 3) The reasons of deficienty reforms realization lie mostly in the historical, also in cultural and especially in religious background of Turkey. 4) The reason behind opening...
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The position of the town Říčany in Prague hinterland: a case study of families with children
Chrpa, Jiří ; Špačková, Petra (advisor) ; Mulíček, Ondřej (referee)
This master thesis deals with the question, whether the town Říčany performs functions of the local centre for its residents. Part of the text is devoted to the transformation taking place around the Czech capital. The paper uses the theoretical framework of Time geography. Using a qualitative questionnaire survey targeted at families with children, the work is trying to identify, where the residents localize their activities. The thesis also attempts to recognize the activity localisation mechanisms. Another goal was to find differences between various categories of the respondents. Children and adults working in Říčany usually localize their activities close to their home. Adults working in Prague have an elliptic activity space, in which home is however main station. One of the contributions of this work is the typology of four groups of households. In addition to long-term residents and two types of suburbanites, the group of "grounded residents" was defined. Although they have moved to the town rather recently, they usually live in the older parts of the town and localize there most of their life.
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Social environment and local communities: city, suburb , countryside
Špačková, Petra ; Ouředníček, Martin (advisor) ; Kostelecký, Tomáš (referee) ; Ptáček, Pavel (referee)
Since the 19th century, the processes of modernization, industrialization and urbanization have fundamentally impacted the spatial organization and the actual contents of social ties. In particular, the role of place of residence in everyday life has significantly changed. Compared to the past, the spatial distance is less relevant for maintenance of interpersonal ties and non-local social relations are of growing importance. This process has been recently enhanced by development of communication technologies and the Internet in particular. The Internet has transferred many social ties into virtual communities without any spatial reference. The dissertation deals with the consequences of the above indicated changes for the social environments in urban, suburban and rural localities and it is built on the geographic perspective of social network research. The theoretical framework of the research is based on combination of the concepts of social environment and the concept of local community. Further, the conceptualization of the study of local social environment is presented. In addition, the factors undermining the differentiated social environment and the character of community ties in various types of geographical contexts are discussed. The attention is also paid to the importance of population...
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