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Petra Špačková currently works at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University in Prague. Petra does research in urban geography with her main interest being in the development of postsocialist cities and especially (socialist) housing estates. Her research also covers topic such as residential mobility and stability, migration, everyday mobility and gender, and community and locality studies.
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April 2012 - present
August 2006 - March 2012
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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...
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...
An increasing number of studies focus on the divergent trajectories of housing estates in post-socialist cities; however, they are mostly case studies of particular cities. There is little research that offers a more systematic and comparative analysis of different housing estates between the settlement systems of different countries. This study ai...
The inner areas of post-socialist cities are experiencing dynamic transformation. However, changes are often selective and differ between capital, large and provincial cities, and their neighbourhoods. This article aims to analyze variations in residential change in individual localities within Holešovice, Prague’s inner-city district. The analysis...
The assessment of the scope of suburbanisation within the hinterlands of Czech cities is one of the core issues of both pure and applied research of settlement geography and related disciplines. The main objective of this article is to furnish a coherent methodology for the delimitation of suburban municipalities in Czechia, to describe and explain...
The housing estate is perceived to be one of the main symbols of the socialist regime in the former Eastern Bloc. Immediately after the Velvet Revolution, housing estates were to some extent rejected by the general public as well as neglected in spatial planning and policies. At the same time, Prague’s housing estates contained more than 40% of the...
Since the 1990s, reurbanisation has become an increasingly frequent trajectory for urban development. Many formerly shrinking cities have been able to stabilise their population or even see new growth. Especially prominent in regions like Germany and the UK, but also observed across the whole continent, a lively debate on reurbanisation has develop...
The main objective of this paper is to apply a synthetic approach to the delimitation of metropolitan areas, which combines traditional commuting data from the population census with alternative approaches. The presented delimitation, which was originally realized in response to a request from Prague’s planning authority, is based on three methodol...
An article presenting research on gender differences in time use and mobility based on the stage of the life cycle and place of residence (rural vs. urban) in the Czech Republic was published in the previous issue of this journal. This topic is not only present in the academic research, but also very often in the society-wide discussion about socia...
Suburbanization has been a particularly significant process in transforming the metropolitan regions in Central and East European countries in the past two decades. Many critics emphasize the negative consequences of suburbanization, such as a low level of residential environment quality, and some of them anticipate that suburbanites' expectations...
The article examines how different social and urban processes were reflected in the spatial patterns of three dimensions of population structure (demographic, socio-economic, and ethnic statuses) in Prague during the socialist and post-socialist periods. The article has three main objectives. First, it analyses inertia and change in socio-spatial p...
The paper deals with the differences in the time use between men and women and its spatial aspects on the example of Czechia and suggests the possible application of the topic into geography classes. Generally, women devote more time to housework and child caring, on the contrary, men spend more time at paid work and on leisure activities. The bigg...
This chapter deals with socio-spatial differentiation in Prague after transition. The empirical evidence shows decreasing segregation indices for the whole of the twentieth century, so this decrease cannot be ascribed solely to the period of post-socialist development. The process of professionalisation has flattening effects within the higher-stat...
Předkládaná kniha Sub Urbs: krajina, sídla a lidé je věnována jevům a procesům, které se v současnosti odehrávají za městem nebo vedle města (sub urbs). Kniha jejíž editory jsou Martin Ouředníček, Petra Špačková a Jakub Novák z Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, obsahuje třináct kapitol odborníků z různých pracovišť. Na fenomén suburbanizace, tedy na proc...
Analysis of actors and problematic aspects of decision making processes in territorial management of suburban municipalities
Theoretical approaches and current research of suburbanization
Methodological problems of research and zoning of residential suburbanization in the Czech Republic
Suburbanization is one of the most important processes changing the nature of metropolitan regions in Europe’s post-socialist countries. This paper evaluates the importance of social contacts of new suburbanites on local level social cohesion and development. The paper employs examples from empirical research into new suburban communities in the Pr...
Social environment, social capital and social climate in suburbia: case study of Jesenice u Prahy
Residential stability of population in Prague’s hinterland: case study of Říčany u Prahy
Spatial typology and zonation of Prague
The research presented in this article builds upon a phenomenon
of new socio-spatial differentiation progressively occurring in the Czech Republic since 1989, with special attention devoted to rural peripheral areas suffering from a long-term loss of population (depopulation). The authors argue that the persistent out-migration predominately of you...
Growing income differentiation in society, diversification of housing supply and selective population mobility are resulting in increasing socio-spatial differentiation in Czech cities and neighbourhoods during the post-socialist transition. Housing estates are no exception to the processes of urban change. The paper shows that development trajecto...
