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The paper builds on previous definitions of functional regions of Slovakia. It uses data on commuting among municipalities from the 2021 census. It employs a widely accepted regionalisation algorithm of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, updated by the Olomouc school of quantitative geographers. For the first time, the same algo...
On Sunday, August 13, 2023, Stanislav Martinát – a respected Czech geographer and member of the Editorial Board of Moravian Geographical Reports journal – died after a short serious illness at the age of 47. Despite his relatively young age, Stanislav Martinát was one of the most productive and the most cited Czech geographers. He is the author or...
The paper develops the concept of a timescape of a city based on empirical analysis of geospatial big data. We understand the timescape as the temporal shape of a city, which reflects temporal dynamics of a city structure and rhythms based on aggregated time-space behaviour of individuals. The paper uses the concepts of rhythmanalysis and spatial i...
The rapid expansion of cars as the main transport mode over the last few decades has
caused many negative effects mainly in urban areas. One of the most important and
useful tools is supporting public transport by creating integrated transport systems
(ITS). ITS represent innovative solution for organising urban and regional public
transport. ITS a...
As demonstrated by the results of several studies, the population does not form a homogeneous unit in terms of migration behaviour. Preferences of individual population groups may differ significantly, manifested by different choices of migration destinations, such as the type of territory or the distance involved. The contribution focuses on analy...
Research on spatial history can be enriched by using approaches from quantitative geography. We analyse an historical regional system and highlight three basic assumptions, building upon Christaller’s central place theory: cities do not stand alone in space, they interact with their hinterlands, and they are hierarchically organised. We investigate...
Internal migration is an important process investigated by spatial and regional sciences. When intensive, it can significantly change settlement and regional systems. The paper reveals the structures of internal migration based particularly on distance of movements and partly on their motivations. In order to distinguish between short and long dist...
The paper presents new approaches to the visualisation of origin–destination flows, in which all three basic parameters of flows between pairs of geographic objects are cartographically expressed simply and clearly: the length of flows, their intensity, and the proportional distribution of both directions between pairs of objects (polarisation of f...
In this year, 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has imposed new challenges for most human activities. Time-geography is a theoretical approach with great potential for analysing the consequences of the new disease and other disturbances, and this article aims at identifying possible developments of interest for the approach in the post-Covid era. The art...
The geography of ageing is addressed in this article by providing new empirical evidence about the significant role of daily activities on the perceptions of isolation and loneliness. The developed model of socio-spatial isolation is based on data from time-space diaries and questionnaires completed by older adults living in three cities in the Cze...
Functional regions are autonomous (internally coherent and externally self-contained) spatial structures based on vector data, so-called spatial interactions. Typically, travel-to work, travel-to-school flows and migrations are analysed by various methods of functional regional taxonomy in order to define functional regions. There is still another...
Heterogeneity and continuity are two basic traits of geographic space that are also responsible for the problem of spatial uncertainty. In the existing research, heterogeneity and continuity have predominantly been discussed in relation to an analysis of scalar spatial information, i.e. information linked to a single place or a single region. This...
The paper deals with the issue of functional regionalisation on the global level and uses information on air transport movements as the regionalisation criterion. The analysis is based on several analogies regarding the use of traditional methods, scale context and the character of input information (flows), by which functional regions are usually...
Abstrakt Článek se zabývá možnostmi a problémy modelování prostorových interakcí v širší oblasti Krkonoš. Modely prostorových interakcí patří mezi tradiční analytické a predikční nástroje geografického výzkumu v oblasti toků a pohybů. V článku je aplikován gravitační model bez omezení na dopravní síti Krkonoš, která je interpreto-vána jako graf skl...
Methods of functional regional taxonomy and concrete definitions of functional regions based on prevailing population flows have been discussed in many regional studies. The resulting regions have been given various names (travel‐to‐work areas, local labour market areas, housing market areas, etc.) based on the character of the input data and the m...
This paper examines issues concerning mothering and childcare, with an emphasis on two crucial aspects which are based on the fact that mothers’ individual behaviours are undoubtedly time‐space dependent. First, unlike the majority of studies which have investigated mothers’ isolation by applying qualitative methods, this exploratory study using da...
The evaluation of the level of spatial uncertainty builds theoretically on fuzzy set theory and the premise that the affinity of a basic spatial unit may assume values along a continuum between zero and full affinity. The paper briefly presents the motivation for the evaluation of fuzziness in functional regions based on daily travel-to-work flows....
Selected traits of the spatial organisation of a geographical environment which stem from two types of human behaviour (locational and interactive) are examined in this paper. An attempt is made to find and account for similarities in the spatial patterns of scalar and vector geographical data. In doing so, the paper analyses a core-periphery dicho...
The monograph is concerned with one of the basic geographical concepts, a region, primarily from the point of view of the quantitative geography. The first part deals with the issue of the properties of regions, their typology, when the perspective of their structure is crucial to classify them into formal and functional regions. The second part pr...
Brownfields constitute a substantial portion of the land area in post-industrial cities. Many brownfields have been regenerated for various uses, addressing a range of extant problems in urban areas. However, re-use plans for current brownfields are driven by market demand and public sector prioritization and do not always meet the requirements of...
Příspěvek se zabývá ekologickými formami zemědělského hospodaření a navazujícími aktivitami v cestovním ruchu ve vztahu ke krajině a její ochraně. Na základě dotazníkového šetření byly tyto aktivity lokalizovány a analyzován jejich potenciál v oblasti udržitelného cestovního ruchu v Krkonoších.
Our contribution is focused on ecological forms of ag...
The paper generally builds on the concept of justice in social science. It attempts to interpret this concept in a geographical and particularly in a spatial context. The paper uses the concept of accessibility to define the principle of spatial equity. The main objective of the paper is to propose an approach with which to assess the level of spat...
A correct definition of administrative regions is one of the crucial factors in the efficient performance of public administration. The paper stresses the advantages of a spatial interaction approach. It builds on four conceptual cornerstones: functional relationships in space, functional regions, the distance–decay function and administrative geog...
Functional regions are based on horizontal links, flows and interactions. Sophisticated iterative algorithms are used for their definition, which is never completely unambiguous. The term spatial uncertainty denotes that the affinity of regional building blocks to a functional region can vary. The same term applies to the different affinity of buil...
The paper analyses migration flows with the purpose of defining functional regions at a micro level. It proposes an innovative approach to the processing of migration data. It includes a reflection on local level migration analysis in relation to local labour markets, and it is inspired by time geographical concepts and research into human spatial...
An attempt to provide a procedure for the assessment of the efficiency of various regional systems for the purposes of spatial analysis is presented in this paper. Functional regions as well as approximated functional regions and the existing administrative regions in the Czech Republic are evaluated, as examples of regional systems to be compared...
Some fifty years in the development of ideas about the definition and use of functional regions are elaborated in this article, as an introduction to this Special Issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports. The conceptual basis for functional regions is discussed, initially in relation to region-organising interactions and their behavioural foundat...
The issue of defining functional regions in Hungary is presented in this paper, which contains detailed methodological description with the help of relevant studies from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The use of Smart’s measure together with the CURDS algorithm and the relatively new concept of trade-off constraint function with four different se...
The paper deals with the issue of inner structure of functional regions in the Czech Republic and it is based on the analysis of spatial distribution of daily travel-to-work flows between so called proto-centres. 160 functional regions based on the CURDS measure and 667 proto-centres provided by the first step of the regionalisation algorithm have...
The paper deals with the issue of administrative regions from the point of view of their spatial efficiency. This approach takes the concept of a functional region as the basis for the assessment of spatial efficiency, particularly the self-containment of a functional region. In this respect the paper analyses three systems of administrative region...
The paper addresses the issue of the constraint function and its use in methods of regional taxonomy and assessment of regional systems. It proposes an alternative definition for the constraint function for rule-based methods of functional regionalisation, such as the delineation of local labour-market areas, including alternative conceptions of th...
The uneven distribution of centres in settlement systems and the non-homogeneity of social-economic space are the stimuli for the existence of spatial interactions. The interactions, that manifest the changes in their intensity with an increasing distance from a centre, can be described by distance-decay functions. This paper presents the construct...
The issue of defining functional regions in the Czech Republic is presented in this paper, which contributes to both theoretical discussions (e.g. the modifiable areal unit problem) and practical applications (e.g. spatial administration, regional planning). A multistage agglomerative approach to functional regional taxonomy is applied, which has b...
Functional regions in Slovakia according to daily travel-to-work flows Delineation of functional regions based on daily movements of population has a long tradition in world literature. They are commonly referred to as "travel-to-work areas" or "local labour market areas". The most frequent and stable regular movement of the population with a daily...
Delineation of functional regions based on daily movements of population has a long tradition in world literature. They are commonly referred to as “travel-towork areas” or “local labour market areas”. The most frequent and stable regular movement of the population with a daily periodicity is labour commuting. Therefore local labour market areas de...
The non-homogeneity of geographic space brings about the processes that horizontally relate sections of geographic space, in transport geography referred to as spatial interactions. The distance separating different types of locations plays a crucial role in these interactions. Distance is the major factor that influences the values of interaction...
Delineation of functional regions based on daily movements of population has a long tradition in world literature. They are commonly referred to as "travel-to-work areas" or "local labour market areas". The most frequent and stable regular movement of the population with a daily periodicity is labour commuting. Therefore local labour market areas d...
The issue of the footfall of large retail facilities in the city of Olomouc is treated in this article from the perspective of spatial interaction modelling. A production-constrained gravity model is applied to reveal spatial patterns of shopping travel intensities in the city. Three problems are addressed: the existing pattern and intensities of f...
The article compares the results of three simpler methods of functional regional taxonomy to the results of the more advanced methods. All methods use daily travel-to-work fl ows provided by the 2001 census as a regionalisation criterion. Simpler methods rest in the application of primary-fl ow linkage in order to assign a basic spatial zone to a p...
Český maloobchod prochází obdobím největších změn v celé své historii. Na kapacitní i kvalitativní nedostatečnost odvětví z konce 80. let minulého století navázala v první polovině let devadesátých etapa atomizace, podpořená malou privatizací, kdy se počet maloobchodních jednotek za deset let zvýšil dvojnásobně na téměř 100 tisíc. Od 2. poloviny 90...
The contribution is concerned with a concept of a region in spatial and regional science. A number of terms related to specific instances of a region can cause a misinterpretation of the concept both in scientific and applied sphere. The objective of the contribution is to provide a concise theoretical introduction into a concept of a region, parti...
The article deals with the issue of spatio-temporal human behaviour
in the scope of the social sciences with increased attention to human
geography. It endeavours to present possible approaches to the study of human
behaviour in the geographical and social environment and the limits
and constraints that affect behaviour. The article is inspired by...
The objective of the present article is an application of three versions of the Reilly’s model in a regional division of Slovakia at two levels: from the point of view of potential natural gravity towards regional centres, and from the aspect of an alternative proposal of administrative division of Slovakia at the regional level. In this contributi...
The article deals with a modern time transformations of suburban geographical environment in the hinterland of a city. Its aim is to identify and assess major changes in a structure and function of city segments on the basis interdisciplinary approach using methodological and source apparatus of geography and history. As a model example three typol...
Spatial interactions represent mutual relations between geographic areas or regions at different hierarchical levels. The Reilly’s law is one of the spatial interaction models which was originally constructed for survey of retail gravitation and was based on purely formal relations. The article aims at closer presentation of the Reilly’s law and pr...
Places and students in urban environment: A time-geographical perspective. The article analyses places of concentration (in time-geography referred to as "stations") of university students in the city of Olomouc. It is a part of research into the effects the changing urban environment exerts on the spatio-temporal behaviour of the selected populati...
Various issues concerning spatial organisation as a theoretical construct are discussed in this paper. Some basics of the theoretical background and a literature review on the subject matter, not aspiring to completeness, are provided. Three thematicallyrelated research projects, which are currently underway in conjunction with several Czech academ...
The 19th century witnessed important processes and changes affecting economic, political, social and cultural life. All these changes, mostly related to the phenomenon of the Industrial Revolution, were reflected in the spatial structures and landscape character. The first objective of the article is to identify and assess transformations of the se...
The article is focused on selected crucial themes in graphical modelling of the regions as a tool for approximation and symbolizing of geographical space. The aim of the article is to analyse an existing application of graphical models in geographical research, their characteristics and categorisation. Higher added value of the contribution lies in...
Spatial interactions express mutual relations between geographic areas or regions at different hierarchical level. The Reilly's law is one of the spatial interaction models and was originally constructed for survey of retail gravitation and was based on purely formal relations. Since its first application the literature presents several forms of th...
Development of retail in the Czech Republic in the period of economic transformation aft er 1989 went through crucial changes including both privatization process in the fi rst half of the 1990s and introduction of foreign retail concerns to the Czech market in the second half of the decade. Th e latter phase of transformation of the Czech retail i...
Suitability of an area for tourism and recreational needs belongs among traditional issues of the Czech geography. Generally this problem is divided into assessment of natural potential and assessment of cultural-historical potential of an area for tourism and recreation. This contribution is aimed at possibilities of quantitative expression of cul...
Publikace je určena studentům vysokých škol regionálního, ekonomického a sociálního zaměření i širší odborné veřejnosti. Přináší ucelený přehled o ekonomické a zčásti i sociální geografii, jež se na širší ekonomickou část bezprostředně váže. Deset kapitol postupně pojednává o dílčích disciplínách a vybraných průřezových tématech v rámci sociálněgeo...
The article deals with the issue of spatial differentiation of livestock breeding in the Czech Republic after 1989. These activities are studied from the geographical point of view in relation to the transition from the centrally planned economy towards market economy with regard to development after country´s accession to the EU. The first part co...
Cílem příspěvku je seznámit veřejnost s dosavadními poznatky Katedry geografie Univerzity
Palackého z výzkumu kvality života obyvatel města Olomouce. Za výchozí databázi pro výzkum byly
zvoleny odpovědi respondentu v dotazníkovém šetření realizovaném v květnu 2008. Průzkumu se
zúčastnilo 901 obyvatel města, tj. přibližně jedno procento osob ve veku...
Sustainability at the regional level: theory and application. Geografický časopis, 59, 2007, 3, 2 figs., 27 refs. The article is aimed at the possibilities of application of the sustainability concept on the regional level, with special regard to possibilities of spatial differentiation based on the analysis of sustainability, which can be projecte...
Současná zonace národního parku a biosférické rezervace respektuje vymezení dří-vějších státních přírodních rezervací a je vedena po liniích převážně umělých, které mnohdy rozdělují jeden typ ekosystému, který pak požívá různé typy ochrany, ačkoliv jeho environmentální a ekologické hodnoty jsou identické. Ekosystémově založená zonace národního park...
Our contribution is focused on ecological forms of agriculture and related tourism
activities. Their relation to landscape conservation has been pursued as well. On the basis
of the questionnaire survey these activities have been localized and their potential in the
sustainable tourism of the Giant Mts. (Krkonoše in Czech) has been analysed.
Changes in landscape structure are assessed on the basis of an analysis of selected socio-economic factors in two model regions: Vrchlabí and Vimperk. The resulting land use changes are discussed from the point of view of a sustainability concept. An attempt is also made to find relations between changes in socio-economic factors and land use chang...
Příspěvek se zabývá vybranými populačními a sídelními charakteristikami, jejich prosto-rovou a časovou dynamikou v oblasti Krkonoš. Hledá souvislosti mezi jednotlivými kvan-titativními a kvalitativními charakteristika obyvatelstva pohoří. V závěru jsou naznačeny hlavní možnosti dalšího výzkumu v oblasti geografie obyvatelstva a sídel. Our contribut...
V české části pohoří bylo vymezeno 51 krajinných mikrochor a to na základě čtyř kritérií: fyzickogeografického, land cover, land use a péče o přírodu. Na základě výše uvedených kritérií bylo těchto 51 mikrochor sloučeno do 12 krajinných typů.
In the Czech part of the mountain range 51 landscape microchores have been delimited on the basis of four...
