Tomáš Krejčí

This paper explores the implementation of grand spatial planning narratives such as the compact city and polycentricity in planning practice. The effects of overlapping scales on the application of spatial imaginaries in metropolitan space are examined. Using post‐socialist space, the research enriches the geographical context of metropolitan studi...

Reuse preferences for post‐agricultural brownfields on former socialist agricultural premises in CEE countries are likely to be diverse and may depend on communities' experiences. Our research question is to reveal, through a questionnaire survey of 774 respondents from 180 communities, the difference in reuse preferences among communities with dif...

Structural change in the agricultural economy may result in the abandonment of agricultural buildings, creating rural brownfield sites. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, post‐agricultural brownfields have become very common in Central and Eastern Europe. Our aim is to uncover and understand the reuse preferences for 16 reuse options, amon...

Spatial planning practice is increasingly facing the challenge of managing the complexity of daily urban systems. As a normatively defined spatial imaginary, the concept of polycentricity has become widely used in planning practice in order to mitigate territorial disparities and to enhance urban competitiveness. Although polycentricity has been th...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) plants fed by agricultural biowastes are highly relevant renewable energy producers supporting the transition towards sustainable waste management. However, local support for the operation of individual AD plants seems to be highly diverse, case specific and generally insufficient. Following this challenge visible especiall...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) plants undoubtedly represent an integral and irreplaceable element in rural energy transition and sustainable waste management. In our study, we focus on an advanced understanding of the dynamics behind the changing perceptions of AD plants in host communities in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The surveyed AD pla...

In the post-socialist period, rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a complex transformation process that resulted in creation of numerous large-scale abandoned post-agricultural premises not unlike industrial brownfields. Our study aims to reveal hidden but critical points of successful and sustainable regeneration of abandoned and c...

In the 21st century, rural communities face many challenges, including implications of dynamic population aging, a lack of social care services, and the occurrence of abandoned post-agricultural brownfields. This paper is methodologically based on the findings derived from a set of qualitative in-depth interviews with the key rural stakeholders, ex...

We aim to contribute to in-depth comprehension of the factors and preferences behind the reuses of large-scale underused or abandoned former collective farms from the 1950s–1980s for biogas plants and solar photovoltaic power plants. As a case study, three regions in the southern part of the Czech Republic have been selected. Our findings signal th...

Urban brownfield remediation and reclamation have attracted much attention, but rural spaces do not receive the same focus and suffer from the effects these sites have on society, the economy, and land. The objective of this study is to evaluate how social, economic, and environmental features affect agricultural brownfield regeneration between 200...

The fall of the Iron Curtain created a vacuum upon which large-scale collectivized agriculture was largely abandoned. Post-agricultural brownfields emerge in multiple manners across national, regional and local levels. While these sites remain rarely explored, we aimed to better understand the spatial consequences of the formation, persistence and...

The paper deals with the importance of scale in metropolitan and urban planning, in connection with the promoted and often applied concept of polycentric development. Although the normative conceptualization of polycentricity to some extent reflects the multi-scalar dimension, the operationalization of the concept encounters a number of limitations...

The book Geography of Barriers: Examples of Good Barrier-free Practice offers a collection of texts that are interested in making space, services, and information accessible. Thus, the collection is primarily about barriers, their nature, localization, and possible effects. Under barriers, most people imagine material barriers for wheelchair users...

The book Geography of Barriers: Examples of Good Barrier-free Practice offers a collection of texts that are interested in making space, services, and information accessible. Thus, the collection is primarily about barriers, their nature, localization, and possible effects. Under barriers, most people imagine material barriers for wheelchair users...

Re-using and regenerating derelict and abandoned areas constitutes an important element in sustainable land use policy and planning. This paper explores the phenomenon of derelict farm premises in South Bohemia, the Czech Republic. It analyses the origin and extent of this phenomenon as well as land use targets applied to such sites by planning doc...

The cultural landscape of the historic country of Moravia is constantly undergoing changes, which are caused by various human interventions, based on economic intentions and human goals. Nevertheless, even in the current landscape, there are still sites that have avoided change. These, like others, bear in their properties the marks of past times....

Nearly every village in Central and Eastern European countries with heavily collectivized agriculture has its collective farm premises that encompass substantial parts of the village area, were built in the sixties, and now are unable to be used in former ways. The aim of the paper is to identify indicators that are relevant for spatial disparities...

The paper deals with the process of searching and inventorying of relict-so-called pre-industrial landscape-in Moravia (approximately 1/3 of the territory in the east of the Czech Republic). So far, during the inventory of pre-industrial landscape segments in Moravia, around 1,500 land use mosaic areas have been registered, surviving without signif...

The return of the local democracy to the military training areas raises a number of complex challenges even under the conditions of a democratic state. In the municipalities that were established in the Czech Republic on 1 January 2016 by a separation from the territory of the military training areas, a nondemocratic paternalist system has dominate...

The integration of socioeconomically marginalized areas into regional systems in the context of post-communist transformation has been an important subject of social science research in general. The military training areas (MTA), as specific type of peripheries, have been so far little explored. Based on the results of an extensive questionnaire su...

The large pre-1989 agricultural premises that were built in the communist period are still with us and considerably shape the face of our villages to the present times. Its new uses are particularly problematic, but some changes took place during the last three decades. That is why we tried to compare former uses with uses to the year of the EU acc...

The variety of post-socialist agricultural transitions in four different rural regions located in South Bohemia (Czech Republic), with respect to the utilisation of the older premises, is subject to analysis in this article. A complete database was constructed, containing the identification of agricultural premises in 1989 and their use in 2004 and...

Although agriculture is considered a „traditional” or even „traditionalist” branch of economy, it is recently undergoing a rapid change along the development of production technologies. In East and Central Europe, these changes are significantly modified by processes of privatisation and profound changes in grant policies. The aim of the paper is t...

Military training areas (MTAs) are special spatial units. Closed and inaccessible for the general public, they have been shaped by long-term military use of various potential type and intensity. Following the suspension of operation, some MTAs fell derelict and buildings and infrastructures on it become brownfields. Local municipalities will have s...

The application of principles of good governance in brownfield regeneration, for instance through improved transparency and participation of various groups of stakeholders, varies between regions and cities. In this article, we approach good governance as a strategic response of actors in the struggle for creating development opportunities on brown...

The map was created thanks to a project No. TL01000013 Strategic tools for building a barrier-free city of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic. It shows institutions located in the City of Brno which declares systematic interest in removing physical barriers in space. The map shows location of these institutions as same as their focus group...

Central Europe is replete with legacy contaminated sites, commonly called “brownfields”. The question is what can be done to remediate them and make them again safe and useful to society. This question is addressed in post-socialistic city of Brno, the Czech Republic. Our research assesses public perceptions of such sites that are currently utilize...

COMMUNITY AREA RISK ASSESSMENT FOR FLASH FLOOD The flash floods forecasting is struggling mainly with extraordinary irregularities in origin of causal precipitations. They only in conjunction with the territory water saturation caused by antecedent precipitations start effect of other local factors that can consequences of short-term extreme precip...

The whole Map includes three maps views, overview map of the Czech Republic and additional information. Each of three map views shows one of selected region (Pilsen Region, Liberec Region and Moravian-Silesian Region), where the mapping was held in 2016. Each map shows industrial heritage sites divided in five categories (factories, railway constru...

Kniha ŘEKY VE MĚSTECH vznikla jako výstup projektu č. EHP-CZ02-OV-1-032-2015 " Zvyšování povědomí a propagace významu funkcí lesů v krajině a přírodě blízkých koryt vodních toků v městském prostředí jako součást ekosystémových služeb povodí " , pracovně nazývaného RaFA. Cílem autorů bylo představit široké veřejnosti řeky ve městech v České republic...

The publication is a summarising outcome of a part of a project financed by EEA fund “Increasing of awareness and propagation of significance of functions of forests in landscape and nature-close water course basins in urban areas asa part of ecosystem services of drainage areas” (EHP -CZ02-OV -1-032-2015). The project was solved during January 201...

SCENARIOS OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT SUPPORT BY GEO-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Optimization of activities during flash floods, landslides and toxic leakage accidents on roads and railroads The monograph outlines selected aspects of geo-information technology application, particularly of geographic information systems in disaster management. The Preface gi...

Locating and developing factors are generally well known, studied and taken into account in the accepting of the solution. In contrast, the limiting factors of development usually stands in the background. Current data sources, knowledge and modelling technologies allow greatly anticipate the extent of the flood situation. Evaluation of the risk of...

Recently running climate changes have resulted in an increased incidence of natural phenomenon that can adversely affect the life of people - so called flash floods. A typical characteristic of these floods is their very rapid onset, relatively short peak and rapid retreat. This short period varies and might range somewhere between few minutes up t...

Previous studies have demonstrated that the location of brownfields is an important factor affecting potential investor decisions and brownfields regeneration. In this study, the spatial patterns of urban redevelopment are explored, using an analysis of variance model for a detailed database of existing and regenerated brownfields in the city of Br...

Regeneration of brownfields gradually becomes an important challenge for regional and local development across the East-Central European countries. Due to the recent huge economic transition and global societal changes thousands of abandoned sites (brownfields) sprang up across the landscape after various economic activities, the Czech Republic inc...

Czech-Polish border, 800 km long, includes the longest-lasting international borders in Europe in its western half. In the period of real socialism it represented a genuine development barriers and obstacles of cross-border cooperation. After both countries joined the EU (2004) and the Schengen area (2007), the importance of boundaries as barriers...

Příspěvek je zaměřen na představení východisek teoreticko-metodologického charakteru, která formují metodiku anticipace rizik u velkých projektů v brownfields managementu. Předkládá poznatky odkazující se na již realizované mezinárodní projekty 7. rámcového programu (zejména prioritizační nástroj rozvoje brownfields) stejně jako z řešených projektů...

In the period after 1989, the sugar industry was influenced by a dramatic transition process, which was accompanied by many changes as for example: some sugar factories ruduced their production, other closed down completely; there were changes of ownership and increased role of foreign (often unpredictable) investors, modifications of sugar distrib...

In the period after 1989, the sugar industry was influenced by a dramatic transition process, which was accompanied by many changes as for example: some sugar factories ruduced their production, other closed down completely; there were changes of ownership and increased role of foreign (often unpredictable) investors, modifications of sugar distrib...

The paper pays attention to the relations between regeneration of brownfields and tourism. The first, theoretical part is focused on examining the relationships of both phenomena, in the second part the results of thematic questionnaire survey are presented. The survey with tourists was held in three locations in the South Moravian Region, where...

The paper deals with the regeneration of agricultural brownfi elds in the Czech Republic. The fi rst part of paper introduces the issue and the most important results of the previous scientifi c researches. The second part describes the goal of paper and methodology of own research activities. The third part brings own analysis of the Czechinvest A...

The relation between local government and the post-industrial landscape is discussed in this article for a case study area in the Czech Republic, the Tanvald region (area with the spatial concentration of glass and textile industries before 1989). The situation significantly changed with the return of the market economy, when many industries were c...

The paper deals with the issue of population and its spatial changes in two second-order cities in the Czech Republic (Brno and Ostrava) after 1989 when the post-socialist period in Central Europe began. We analysed two different hierarchic levels of the urban space: city districts and basic settlement units (within inner cities). Research on evide...

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