Martin Šimon

Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

The aim of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the size of activity spaces of homeless men and women in cities. Vulnerable population groups such as the homeless face the risk of mobility challenges that can exacerbate their social exclusion even more through mobility-driven spatial exclusion. The extent of an in-dividual's ac...

The aim of this study was to examine the spatial mobility of homeless people in urban areas, exploring homeless mobility, its drivers, limits and links to personal attributes, and whether there is an association between the extent of spatial activity and an individual’s housing situation. To our knowledge, there has been no prior exhaustive attempt...

This article reports on a new empirical study evaluating crime concentration at places in a post-socialist city. We use principles of the law of crime concentration at places and the Cambridge Crime Harm Index to measure crime count and crime harm concentration at the level of street segments. The research found differences between crime concentrat...

Tento článek přináší do debaty o segregaci migrantů poznatky z Česka jako nové destinace zahraniční migrace. Článek zkoumá vývoj prostorového rozmístění bydliště šesti hlavních skupin migrantů, definovaných na základě státního občanství, ve vybraných velkých městech Česka s využitím populačního rastru. K tomu využívá nově dostupná data z Cizineckéh...

Immigration is one of the most contentious fields of contemporary European urban policy. While the development of urban segregation is well documented in traditional immigration countries with population register data, there is a lack of detailed research on population dynamics in many countries and cities across Europe. This article examines ethni...

Comparative research aiming to explain differences in segregation on national level is highly desirable for public policy in increasingly diverse countries including new immigrant destinations. This study explores residential segregation of non-European migrants in Czechia using the individualised scalable neighbourhood method based on anonymised g...

This article explores the spatial mobility of disadvantaged populations in order to enhance our understanding of transport poverty. It is based on participatory GPS tracking data collected in peripheral rural regions in Czechia and Germany. The data provide information on the two-week mobility of 61 socially disadvantaged study participants belongi...

Research into the concentration of crime at places is a long-standing research area in environmental criminology. Studies demonstrate the practical potential of geo-localised data for criminological and security research. Knowledge about crime concentration at places makes it possible to focus repressive and preventive activities in localities wher...

V současném Česku dlouhodobě roste počet bydlících cizinců a otázka jejich soužití s majoritou se dotýká řady oblastí, od trhu práce, bydlení, přes sociální integraci až po bezpečnostní politiku státu. Veřejná správa, samospráva, odborníci, ale i laická veřejnost se zajímá o to, zda jsou nově příchozí obyvatelé přínosem pro českou společnost a zdal...

This paper reports on a new empirical study evaluating crime concentration at places in a post-socialist city. We use principles of the law of crime concentration at places and the Cambridge Crime Harm Index to measure crime count and crime harm concentration at the level of street segments. The research found differences between crime concentratio...

This article contributes to the discussion of the segregation of immigrants by presenting evidence from a new destination country of international migration. It explores residential patterns of immigrants, defined by citizenship, and their development in selected large Czech cities. The analysis is focused on six main immigrant groups. New register...

V současném Česku dlouhodobě roste počet bydlících cizinců a otázka jejich soužití s majoritou se dotýká řady oblastí, od trhu práce, bydlení, přes sociální integraci až po bezpečnostní politiku státu. Veřejná správa, samospráva, odborníci, ale i laická veřejnost se zajímá o to, zda jsou nově příchozí obyvatelé přínosem pro českou společnost a zdal...

Cílem příspěvku je představit návrh na zveřejnění dat o kriminalitě na úrovni ulic v podmínkách českých měst. Příspěvek nejprve informuje čtenáře o aktuálních výzkumech ve světě, které se věnují analýzám kriminality na úrovni ulic. Ze zahraničních výzkumů víme, že pokud analyzujeme kriminalitu na mikro-úrovni uličních segmentů, tak je polovina tres...

Cílem příspěvku je představit nový analytický přístup měřící společenskou škodlivost kriminality v místech, který má praktickou aplikaci v prevenci kriminality a policejní praxi. Rostoucí využití geolokalizovaných dat o kriminalitě a platnost zákona o koncentraci kriminality v místech nám umožňuje exaktně změřit míru společenské závažnosti kriminal...

The aim of the article is to examine the spatial mobility of homeless persons in urban areas. This study explores homeless mobility, its drivers, limits and links to personal attributes and whether there is an association between the extent of spatial activity and an individual's housing situation. To our knowledge, there has not been any prior tho...

This study investigates socioeconomic peripherality in Hungary and Czechia. Despite the current attention devoted to peripheries in post-communist societies, the authors argue that there is a lack of data-driven international comparisons of the socio-spatial outcomes of peripheralisation processes. In the study, the situations in Hungary and Czechi...

The aim of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the size of activity spaces of homeless men and women in cities. Vulnerable population groups such as the homeless face the risk of mobility challenges that can exacerbate their social exclusion even more through mobility-driven spatial exclusion. The extent of an individual’s act...

Abstrakt Cílem příspěvku je představit nový analytický přístup měřící spole-čenskou škodlivost kriminality v místech, který má praktickou aplikaci v prevenci kriminality a policejní praxi. Rostoucí využití geolokalizo-vaných dat o kriminalitě a platnost zákona o koncentraci kriminality v místech nám umožňuje exaktně změřit míru společenské závažnos...

A key issue in socio-economic geography is to understand how regional and social polarisation shapes the territorial organisation of society. We argue that effects of polarisation are not translated simply and straightforwardly in a whole region, but vary to a large extent with respect to different types of accessibility areas. We applied the time-...

The spatial concentration of social disadvantage in rural areas not only poses a risk to social cohesion but also represents a challenge for public policy. This article draws on a multidimensional concept of disadvantage to study spatial aspects of disadvantage in Czech rural areas. Current studies aimed at identifying 'inner peripheries' as areas...

A key issue in socio-economic geography is to understand how regional and social polarisation shapes the territorial organisation of society. We argue that effects of polarisation are not translated simply and straightforwardly in a whole region, but vary to a large extent with respect to different types of accessibility areas. We applied the time-...

The development of the Czech countryside differs in many ways from trajectories typical for Eastern and Central European rural areas in the last 25 years. In our article, we discuss the nature of the 'Czech exceptionalism' , with reference to three examples, namely population development, the dynamics of rural/agricultural labour markets and rural...

The concept of reurbanisation is discussed in this article from theoretical and methodological perspectives. Reurbanisation has been defined as one of the stages of urban development recently, but it is also tied to processes of gentrification, or perceived as a policy aimed at the revitalisation of inner cities. The main objective of this contribu...

The article focuses on Czech/German ethnic boundary from former interwar Czechoslovakia and its persistence (or transience) in electoral behaviour in selected post-1989 elections. In the analytical part of the article links between populations in regions and electoral results is discussed in order 'extract' phantom borders. The analysis draws on bo...

Cílem této kapitoly je na základě zevrubné analýzy výsledků voleb do Poslanecké sněmovny v jednotlivých obcích Česka detailně popsat regionální rozdíly v politických preferencích voličů. Pro všechny analýzy a mapové výstupy byl jako zdroj informací použit datový soubor výsledků voleb do Poslanecké sněmovny, které se uskutečnily v letech 1992 až 201...

Jednou z teorií zabývajících se rozdíly ve volebním chování je teorie ekonomického hla-sování, podle které jsou popularita politických stran a jejich úspěch ve volbách významně ovlivněny výkonem ekonomiky, respektive vnímáním a hodnocením stavu ekonomiky ze strany voliče (Evans, Andersen 2004). Teorie vychází z modelu racionální volby (rational cho...

The book presents an introductory information about demographic change in Central Europe. It is particularly targeted at practicioners and policy makers at local and regional level who deal with impacts of changing populations in their work. It presents an overview of population and policy development in Central Europe and provides a deeper insight...

The paper discusses the contextual effects on voting behaviour. Part of the Czech professional literature concludes that spatial contextual effects on voting behaviour in Czechia are weak and that the spatial patterns of election results can be basically explained as a reflection of territorial differences in social structure, i.e. compositionally....

Čermák, D., Kostelecký, T., Šimon, M., 2014, Prostorové vzorce volebního chování za první republiky – popis, proměny a možné příčiny (kapitola 4), s. 83-108. In: Kostelecký T., Mikešová, R., Poláková, M., Čermák, D., Bernard, J., Šimon, M. Koho volí Vaši sousedé? Prostorové vzorce volebního chování na území Česka od roku 1920 do roku 2006, jejich z...

popis, proměny a možné příčiny (kapitola 5), s. 109-132. In: Kostelecký T., Mikešová, R., Poláková, M., Čermák, D., Bernard, J., Šimon, M. Koho volí Vaši sousedé? Prostorové vzorce volebního chování na území Česka od roku 1920 do roku 2006, jejich změny a možné příčiny. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství SLON. 173 s. ISBN 978-80-7419-166-4.

The book challenges cost analysis of local public service across countries of Central Europe. It is beleved that demographic changes and cost of public service are interrelated within the supply-demand logic of public service delivery. Nevertheless, the linkages are obviously not direct and provoke many research questions. To decompose the variable...

The paper discusses the contextual effects on voting behaviour. Part of the Czech professional literature concludes that spatial contextual effects on voting behaviour in Czechia are weak and that the spatial patterns of election results can be basically explained as a reflection of territorial differences in social structure, i.e. compositionally....

The existence of fundamental infrastructures and services such as roads, a functioning public transport system, day-care services for the elderly or doctors are decisive when it comes to retaining and/or attracting residents to regions and cities. With shrinking population fewer and fewer people have to finance the provision and management of such...

The aim of the present e-book is to share the results of the project ‘ADAPT2DC - New innovative solutions to adapt governance and management of public infrastructures to demographic change in shrinking regions and cities of CE’ with the widest audience. The transfer knowledge to regional stakeholders and policy makers on demographic change especial...

Urban-rural research in post-socialist countries has focused on urban transformation, the impact of international migration and the spread of suburbanisation; little attention has been paid to counterurban migration. The aim of this article is to propose a typology of counterurban migration strategies based on quantitative research in rural areas i...

The study provides a basic comparative demographic analysis of regions in the Central European area. It is particularly focused on population shrinkage and population ageing which is present at the regional level in all the countries in Central Europe. Firtly, information about the territorial scope and thematic focus of the study is described. Sec...

Changing life-style patterns in urban and rural environment has been a perennial topic in social science research. The differences between urban and rural gained different meaning and different significance today then they has have during industrial urbanization characterized with strong outmigration from rural to urban areas. This article is focus...

This article presents a short introduction to the topic of migration into rural areas. Its first section discusses differences and similarities in terms of lifestyles in urban and rural areas.The second part presents the findings of a research project concerning migration into rural areas. Five groups of migrants are distinguished according to thei...

In this paper I seek to contribute to our understanding of Romanian immigration in the Czech Republic that has been neglected so far in the scholarly literature. This article presents evidence on a selected Romanian community in peripheral village in the Jeseník-region based upon biographic interviews. The emergence and function of the community ar...

This paper presents an overview of past and current debates over the conceptualization of migration into rural areas – counterurbanization. It begins with the history of the term itself, leading us from its original use to the contemporary plurality of its meanings. Key issues in the process of defining counterurbanization are examined, in light of...

In this paper I seek to contribute to our understanding of Romanian immigration in the Czech Republic that has been neglected so far in the scholarly literature. This article presents evidence on a selected Romanian community in peripheral village in the Jesenik-region based upon biographic interviews. The emergence and function of the community ar...

This paper presents an overview of past and current debates over the conceptualization of migration into rural areas – counterurbanization. It begins with the history of the term itself, leading us from its original use to the contemporary plurality of its meanings. Key issues in the process of defining counterurbanization are examined, in light of...

In this paper I seek to contribute to our understanding of Romanian immigration in the Czech Republic that has been neglected so far in the scholarly literature. This article presents evidence on a selected Romanian community in peripheral village in the Jeseník-region based upon biographic interviews. The emergence and function of the community ar...

This paper presents an overview of past and current debates over the conceptualization of migration into rural areas – counterurbanization. It begins with the history of the term itself, leading us from its original use to the contempo-rary plurality of its meanings. Key issues in the process of defining counterurbanization are examined, in light o...