GIobaI competition, sustainabe development and civil society :three major challenges for contemporary urban governance and their reflection In local development practices In Prague

The first part of this article investigates city competition, sustainable development and civil society as three major challenges to urban planning and policy-making in the age of globalisation. The complexity of these challenges requires new modes of urban planning and policy-making based on the use of plurality of approaches and tools. The general discussion serves as a background for the assessment of contemporary urban planning in Prague. The second part briefly outlines the institutional framework for urban and regional planning and policy in the Czech Republic and overviews the most important planning documents, which influence, regulate and govern local development in Prague and its metropolitan region. The strengths and weaknesses of contemporary urban planning in Prague are assessed from the perspective of city competition, sustainable development and civil society challenges658

Proměny postsocialistických metropolí =Transformation of Post-socialist Metropolises

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Územně-správní členění hlavního města Prahy

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Suburbanization and its social consequences

Suburbanizací se zpravidla rozumí růst města prostorovým rozpínáním do okolní venkovské a přírodní krajiny, či vytváření suburbií - specifických typů sídel v zázemí měst. K suburbanizaci dochází příchodem nových lidských aktivit -bydlení, obchod, skladování, výroba - do lokalit ležících mimo kompaktní zástavbu města a přitom v rámci metropolitního území. Autor zkoumá podmínky a příčiny suburbanizace a její důsledky na metropolitní a celospolečenské úrovni.21723

Růst a úpadek metropole: věčné téma výzkumu měst

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Formy urbanizace :kritické zhodnocení modelu stadií vývoje měst a návrh alternativní metody klasifikace forem urbanizace

The article critically examines the model of stages of urban development and its operationalization for empirical research. We identify and display shortcomings in the model through an analysis of changes in the spatial distribution of the population and dwellings in Prague and Vienna urban regions from 1980 to 2001. We therefore suggest an alternative method of classifying forms of ur banization. Using the combination of growth or decline of an entire urban region and the centralization or decentralization within an urban region, the method clearly determines the four forms of urbanization, suburbanization, desurbanization and reurbanization.12

Environmental justice and residential segregation in Czechia :the case of Roma resettlement in the town of Vsetín

In this paper, we discuss environmental injustice in relation to residential segregation in Czechia. First, we pay attention to the concepts of environmental justice, social justice and residential segregation and their mutual relations. The core of our argument revolves around the case study of a segregated Roma community that was resettled by the municipal authority from an old dilapidated inner city block of flats to newly built housing on the industrial edge of the town and to isolated peripheral villages. We document multiple situations of environmental injustice and multiple causalities and contingencies in their production. Procedural injustices directly shaped by the public sector were central to the production of distributional injustices in terms of the quality of housing and residential environment, and socio-spatial isolation from the majority population.819