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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...
Active seniors, their everyday activities and mobility: the example of City District Prague 12
Kotlínová, Lucie ; Pospíšilová, Lucie (advisor) ; Chodounská, Helena (referee)
Active seniors, their everyday activities and mobility: the example of City District Prague 12 Abstract Regarding to ageing of the Czech population the daily mobility of seniors is becoming still more current topic. The aim of the thesis is to describe daily motion and implemented activities of seniors that are moving into the territory of the City District Prague 12. The first part of empirical research is based on the findings of the questionnaire survey. The second part uses information detected in semi-structured interviews. It was found, that the respondents are quite satisfied with their mobility and other aspects of daily life. The most common activities are motion activities and small purchases. Though the respondents have to deal with several difficulties during their day-to-day travel, a variety of strategies have been identified to help them overcome these complications. Research reveals that measures which might encourage seniors in daily motion should involve great spectrum of actions realized by many different participants. Key words: daily mobility, active seniors, daily activities, City District Prague 12

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