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The development of housing policy in Písek after 1989 and its impact on residental differentiation and segregation
Jindrová, Veronika ; Matoušek, Roman (advisor) ; Kubeš, Jan (referee)
This thesis focuses on the development of housing policy in Písek after 1989 and its impact on residential differentiation and segregation. To do this it was necessary to carry out interviews with key stakeholders and to link the findings with quantitative analysis. From the research, it was found that the city primarily established rules of allocation and sale of city apartments and also tried to address the issue of social housing, especially in the context of an aging population. Also important was the development of residential development, which the town supported the various tools. Influence of the housing policy in Písek created several locations which became attractive for housing. In the city, however, also located 2 socially excluded localities incurred controlled migration socially maladjusted people. As an endangered locality by segregation and social exclusion is denoted housing estate Portyč where is but rather a residential differentiation. It is also possible to observe the cooperation of the city with local actors, as well as disputes between the leaders of housing policy. Contribution of the thesis also focuses on analyzing the implications of municipal housing policy of the city and its inhabitants. Key words: housing policy, Písek, residential differentiation, segregation
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Queer geography of Czechia: Heteronormativity of space
Pitoňák, Michal ; Šiftová, Jana (advisor) ; Matoušek, Roman (referee)
Drawing on rigorous foreign, both Western and non-Western, literature, this thesis introduces sexuality and its connected spatial conceptualizations to Czech geography. In the beginning of the theoretical part, I discuss the framework under which geography studies sexuality. Then, I discuss the crucial terminology while pointing out at some changes in it. After understanding some of the major terminological issues, I delve into a description of the multiple and diverse development of sexuality related geographies. Focusing on queer geography, I delineate the queer standpoint and concentrate on understanding the spatial construction of sexuality in space while unveiling the heteronormativity of space. Using the queer approach, I implicitly deconstruct the binary of public and private space by pointing out at its spuriousness regarding the sexuality. I present a queer bar as a typical queer space while revealing the sexual closetedness of LGBTIQ people. Then I introduce the school environment as, for the time being, a typical heteronormative space and institution. In the end of the theoretical part, I discuss the queer practices of destabilizing heteronormativity both at school and in public space. In the empirical part of the thesis, I discuss the methodology of my internet based chain-referral...
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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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Art spaces in geographical contexts: the case of Karlovy Vary
Adamec, Vítězslav ; Matoušek, Roman (advisor) ; Svobodová, Hana (referee)
This bachelor thesis is devoted to art spaces in Karlovy Vary and geographical contexts related to them. By using interviews with representatives of these spaces is obtained the image of culture of Karlovy Vary from a spaces players' perspective. Geographical context was understood by various levels of the scale, from the close environs to the influence of international events. Next research question was devoted to political and economic influences on the cultural life of the city and eventually it was turned attention to the net of mutual relations between culture players in Karlovy Vary. The thesis pointed to the contradictoriness of contemporary cultural situation of the city, which is the expression of the imbalance between the free activity of art spaces and the pressure to the economic profit. Keywords: cultural geography, urban geography, art spaces, art, cultural policy, geographical context
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Housing and Municipal housing policy in rural region
Mareš, Jakub ; Matoušek, Roman (advisor) ; Přidalová, Ivana (referee)
Housing and Municipal housing policy in rural region Abstract The main object of this thesis is to assess public houses and housing policies in rural area of the Tábor district. The first part of this paper serves as a theoretical and terminological introduction to the subject. This includes the first chapter, where goals and methods for achieving those goals are established and the second chapter that introduces reader to housing policies, municipal housing funds, a new concept of social housing and methodology that was used to collect research data. The second part of the paper analyzes municipal housing funds in Czech Republic's township, especial the Tábor district and deduces results based on qualitative interviews with citizens. The research indicates that townships to 500 citizens usually don't have a municipal housing fund and therefore don't establish social housing, whereas townships to 3000 citizens have public houses and uses them as a form of social housing. Keywords: Housing, Housing Policy, Housing Fund, Social Housing, Rural Region
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Functional transformation of Trutnov town centre: problems and potential
Bobr, Michal ; Matoušek, Roman (advisor) ; Slach, Ondřej (referee)
Diploma thesis analyzes and evaluates the status and change of the functional use of the historic centre of Trutnov in the transformation period 1992-2015. The thesis is focused both on the development of structures and the importance of retail and services of the center, so on the processes that determinate this development. The theoretical part of the thesis is devoted to the issue of the general processes that took place in the socialist city, their impact in the present, and also the processes associated with the postsocialist city or the transformation period. Apart from this issue, it is focused on retail trade and its development in the transformation period in the Czech Republic and the role of public space in the centre. The theoretical framework contents characteristics, the historical development and specifics of the centre of Trutnov and the town as a whole. The empirical part deals with the development of features in the center of Trutnov. The bottom line of the empirical part is an evaluation of the data from the database of the establishments since 1992 by 2015. The empirical part contents data about the number, spatial distribution and specialization of premises for each house within a defined territory. Processes that operate on functions in the center of the town are discussed in...
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Housing policy, social and spatial justice: new public housing construction in Czechia
Matoušek, Roman
A just society, as understood in this thesis, has to deal with several challenges. The society needs to address injustuces which arise from unequal participation on economic system, from cultural (discoursive) practices and from imperfections of democratic participation. Moreover, it has to deal with spatial dimensions of social processes and with variety of geographical contexts. This thesis draws on critical social science traditions. Beside scientific constribution, the aim of the thisis is to point out some hidden or omitted social problems and injustices. In Czechia, transformation processes after 1989 led among other results to increasing income differentiation and discrimination of some population groups. In the housing sector, these processes resulted in creation of segregated socially excluded localities. Devolution of housing policies to local/municipal level created an opportunity for solving these problems with respect to local circumstances. These activities could be supported by the program of new rental housing construction for population with limited income which was provided by the State Fund of Housing Development. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this thesis answers the question on (i) where was new public housing constructed, (ii) what were the motives of...
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