Inconspicuous innovations and resilience in the urban context: Researching global questions through Central and Eastern European cities

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This project is supported by the 2020 Lumina Quaeruntur award of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It establishes a new research team - The Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment (CESCAME) based at the Institute of Sociology.  
Trvání projektu: 2021 - 2025
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Residential segregation and mobility of foreign citizens: analysis of neighbourhoods, housing trajectories, and neighbourhood context

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The research addresses residential segregation in urban areas with a novel method using individual scalable neighbourhoods. The research examines segregation, mobility, and neighbourhood context shaping spatial behaviour of immigrants. All numerically significant minorities in Cz...
Trvání projektu: 2019 - 2021
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Between Home and Nature: Urban Political Ecology of Allotment Gardening in Post-socialist City and Its Urban Impacts

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The project focuses on Prague allotments as an empirical example of the changing approach to urban nature and urban planning after the fall of socialism. Allotments represent spaces of affection and care. As urban nature, they are spaces of intense political negotiations. The pro...
Trvání projektu: 2016 - 2018
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The History and Future of Czech Housing Estates

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Post-war housing estates (HEs) represent an important part of the housing stock in postsocialist countries and their development over the past decades is often discussed. Yet, in spite of relatively rich research evidence based on case studies, systematic and comprehensive resear...
Trvání projektu: 2020 - 2023
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Time and Space of Homeless Persons in a Post-socialist City: A Comparison of Prague and Pilsen

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The project focuses on the time and space of homeless persons in relation to conditions of a post-socialistic city. Its goal is to describe characteristics, life and time-space paths and everyday life of homeless people in the context of two Czech cities. The project is unique in...
Trvání projektu: 2015 - 2017
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Do-It-Yourself culture and its importance for Czech national and cultural identity: Current situtation in social, cultural, historical and political perspective, typology and potential for regional development

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At present, Do-It-Yourself culture (DIY) is generally understood as part of the Czech national identity and a Czech national feature, which reflects the nation´s specific historical experience and national memory. Although DIY as a Czech national feature refers to the everyday ex...
Trvání projektu: 2018 - 2020
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