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Demographic ageing and the city: seniors in Karlín
Kubíček, Ondřej ; Matoušek, Roman (advisor) ; Galčanová, Lucie (referee)
The following thesis addresses the process of growing old in an urban environment. It concentrates on the factors, which infulence the quality of senior citizens' lives and how they do it. The main focus is put on the city disticts that are subject to dynamic changes caused by the processes of post-socialist transformations, revitalization and gentrification. The thesis explores the problems but also the benefits, which these changes can bring to elderly citizens' every day lives. Looking for the answers to these questions is based on the case study of a city district in Prague - Karlín. The qualitative research have been done by semistructured interviews with local senior citizens. It has shown possible perception of some aspects of environment of Karlin and changes of this environment.
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Demographic ageing and the city: seniors in Karlín
Kubíček, Ondřej ; Matoušek, Roman (advisor) ; Galčanová, Lucie (referee)
The following thesis addresses the process of growing old in an urban environment. It concentrates on the factors, which infulence the quality of senior citizens' lives and how they do it. The main focus is put on the city disticts that are subject to dynamic changes caused by the processes of post-socialist transformations, revitalization and gentrification. The thesis explores the problems but also the benefits, which these changes can bring to elderly citizens' every day lives. Looking for the answers to these questions is based on the case study of a city district in Prague - Karlín. The qualitative research have been done by semistructured interviews with local senior citizens. It has shown possible perception of some aspects of environment of Karlin and changes of this environment.
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Reflection of the stray dogs in Bucharest
Ludvík, Filip ; Žíla, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kocián, Jiří (referee)
This work aims to shed light on the issue of stray dogs living in Bucharest, Romania. This phenomenon, unknown in the Czech environment, has effected thousands of lives in the Romanian capital city for centuries. In the past, there have been sporadic attempts of city authorities to solve the issue of stray dogs, but these efforts have been largely unsucessful due to a lack of commitment and an overall indifference to finding a lasting solution. Today, citizens in Bucharest are constantly confronted with the threat of being attacked by one of the thousands of stray dogs currently living in the city. Statistics show that an average of 7,000 people are attacked annually. Thus, solving this issue is one of the most pressing problems the city of Bucharest faces today. However, finding a solution has divided Romanian society into two: proponents of euthanasia and its opponents. Research shows that while the majority of the population percieve the prescence of stray dogs in the capital a major problem, citizens simeoltaneously feel a strong sense of affection toward the animals. Based on my analysis of field research results, I can conclude that this ambivalent attitude of Bucharests citizens towards dealing with stray dogs is a major obstacle to finding an effective solution to this issue.
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Gentrification of Karlin district. Current status of physical environment and sociodemographic and economic development after 2002
Richterová, Denisa ; Špačková, Petra (advisor) ; Brabec, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to find out if then Prague quarter of Karlin has been under the process of gentrification recently. Karlin is an inner city and has been going through dynamic changes in the last thirteen years. This is not only because of post-socialist transformation but the regeneration was also accelerated by dealing with the consequences of the flood in 2002. Different census areas of Karlin are classified into three categories according to the degree of gentrification: gentrified, ungentrified and below average areas. The research is based on the results summarizing a field research which determined physical condition of the houses, the result of analyses of ownership and price levels of Karlin houses and the development of sociodemographic and economic structure. Key words: gentrification, post-socialist transformation, physical environment, sociodemographic and economic structure
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