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Children's Daily Mobility: The Case Study of the City of Stochov
Křížová, Veronika ; Frydrych, Pavel (advisor) ; Dvořáková, Nina (referee)
Currently, the academic sphere pays more attention to children's daily mobility. There have been some transformations which fundamentally influenced everyday mobility. These changes bring many issues connected with decline of active ways of children's travelling and increase institutionalised children's game. The aim of this work is to find out patterns of everyday mobility and regular children's leisure activities in the city of Stochov. For this case study the city of Stochov has been chosen because of its environment offer, capable of supporting children's daily mobility. For the research, the form of spatiotemporal diaries is used. The diaries were supplemented by drawings to the map. While analysing them, the context was discovered between the records. The patterns of children's everyday mobility in the city of Stochov were revealed as well. The theoretical aim of the thesis is time geography concepts and above all the activity space and stations. The study results show that children of the city of Stochov have high independent mobility and they mostly use active ways of transport. Recorded stations and children's activities were concentrated mostly in the same urban system in which their school and residence are located. The activity space gained average size of 1 713 metres. The most popular...

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