Marie Sýkora Horňáková

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Researcher at Charles University in Prague

This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped everyday life within five large housing estates (LHEs) in three major Czech cities: Prague, Brno and Ostrava. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 72 residents, the research explores the dynamics of coping with confinement within the limited space of apartments and their surrounding neighbourhoo...

Neighbourhoods play a crucial role in residents’ everyday lives. People become attached to neighbourhood attributes throughout their lives and various activities performed within residential environments. Everyday time-space mobility routines actively impact how residents connect with their neighbourhoods. This paper aims to analyse residents’ link...

In recent decades, evolving residential preferences among young middle-class families have diversified spatial mobility patterns, challenging the traditional suburban inclination with the emergence of reurbanization tendencies. Our study employs the concept of life course and explores the decision-making process of housing relocation in a post-soci...

The main objective of this chapter is to study and explain the residential mobility of people living in the Central Bohemian Region’s suburbs. As the migration data shows that the largest number of people from the Central Bohemian suburbs move between municipalities located in this area, our aim is to understand this trend in greater detail by usin...

Recently, post-socialist inner cities have been transforming through various processes of revitalisation and gentrification. The resulting physical and social contrasts of neighbouring localities lead to the spatial fragmentation of inner-city areas that may produce variegated effects on the everyday life of local residents. This paper examines how...

Suburbanization is the most significant process involved in shaping the socio-spatial structure of many western European and post-Socialist cities. In Prague, suburbanization began in the mid-1990s. In contrast with most studies, we consider the suburbs not as a final residential destination but as a place that people leave as a result of life-phas...

Contemporary housing preferences and related behaviour are highly diverse due to the variety of lifestyle cultures in cities, dissimilarities in residents’ resources, and urban changes. In recent years, the Prague Metropolitan Area in Czechia has seen gradual changes in residential mobility patterns. While suburbanization remains the most significa...

Článek se věnuje u nás zatím spíše ojedinělému konceptu spolu-bydlení – cohousingu. Seznamuje čtenáře s konceptem, jeho rozšířením v Česku a představuje výsledky šetření v cohousingem inspirovaném rezidenčním projektu Alfarezidence ležícím ve vnitřním městě Prahy. Pozornost je věnována roli sousedské blízkosti a sdílených prostor v procesu výběru n...

In addition to the still significant suburbanization process, the Prague metropolitan area is also seeing the emergence of reurbanization. While existing studies in this field are mainly concerned with the resulting spatial patterns, the present work focuses on the process of selecting a new place of residence. This topic is of significance because...

Residential mobility is a dynamic process connected to the development of the social and physical structure of urban areas. In addition, housing has become an expression of style, identity and self-orientation, while still representing a basic human need. Together with a diverse mixture of lifestyle cultures occurring in cities and dissimilar resid...