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Entered keyword "urban and rural studies" yielded 245 results.
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Authors: Fernández, Alejandra, Petr Vašát
Macro-paintings have become a popular tool used by various actors to uplift marginalized communities in cities of the global South by transforming their physical environments. These actors operate under the assumption that improving the material conditions of these communities wi...
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Authors: van Dülmen, Christoph, Šimon, Martin, Klärner, Andreas
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 informa...
Akce
2. 5. 2022
Lecture by sociologists Ruta Śpiewak and Wojciech Goszczyński on Alternative Food Networks in Poland
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Authors: Heřmanová, Marie
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Authors: Heřmanová, Marie
Akce
2. 5. 2022
Přednáška sociologů Ruty Śpiewak a Wojciecha Goszczyńskiho o alternativních potravinových sítích v Polsku.
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Vašát, Petr, Daňková, Hana, Gibas, Petr, Poláková, Markéta
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...
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Authors: Bischof, S., Decker, A.
Rural governance increasingly involves a broad range of political agents – but whom do rural dwellers consider responsible for creating and maintaining local opportunity structures? Focusing on the issue of places to socialise, our paper investigates resident-municipality relatio...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
Petr Vašát (PV): Maria, first of all, thank you for meeting with me. For our interview, I have prepared questions spanning from informal urbanism to building techniques to politics. Some of these questions are more related to research, while some are more about urban development....
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Authors: Kingsley, Jonathan, Donati, Kelly, Litt, Jill, Shimpo, Naomi, Blythe, Chris, Vávra, Jan, Caputo, Silvio, Milbourne, Paul, Diekmann, Lucy O., Rose, Nick, Fox-Kämper, Runrid, van den Berg, Agnes, Metson, Geneviève S., Ossola, Alessandro, Feng, Xiaoqi, Astell-Burt, Thomas, Baker, Amy, Lin, Brenda B., Egerer, Monika, Marsh, Pauline, Pettitt, Philip, Scott, Theresa L., Alaimo, Katherine, Neale, Kate, Glover, Troy, Byrne, Jason
There is a significant amount of evidence highlighting the health, wellbeing and social benefits of gardening during previous periods of crises. These benefits were also evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents a narrative review exploring gardening during the ea...
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Authors: Gibas, Petr, Boumová, Irena
In this article we explore how nature becomes part of the city through the example of allotment gardening in the city of Prague, in the Czech Republic. Prague allotments were established based on an ongoing political‐ecological process of urbanization of nature that was locally d...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
‘Homeless’ people are usually considered as citizens without property. The absence of ownership, especially in terms of housing, co-creates the very idea of homelessness in current societies. Despite this fact, ‘homeless’ citizens negotiate and experience their property, things,...
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Authors: Roberto Cibin, Sarah Robinson, Nicola J. Bidwell, Conor Linehan, Laura Maye, Nadia Pantidi, Maurizio Teli
Recent HCI scholarship has critiqued anthropocentrism in design as contributing to the ecological crisis. The current paper contributes theoretically and empirically to this area, adopting the lens of Socio-Ecological Relations, inspired by Environmental History and STS. We argue...
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Authors: Slavomíra Ferenčuhová
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Authors: Decker, Anja
Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe rarely find their way into the debate on rural gender inequality. In this article, I aim to mitigate this imbalance by exploring everyday arrangements of women with dependent children in a peripheralised rural region of the Czech Repub...
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Authors: Decker, Anja
Rural studies have shown considerable interest in the implications the eventization of agriculture has for both rural communities and the agri-food system in the Global North. To contribute to the debate on the transformative potential of agri-food events such as farm festivals a...
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Authors: Millard, Jeremy, Sturla, Alberto, Smutná, Zdeňka, Janssen, Meike, Vávra, Jan
The concept of the city-region food system is gaining attention due to the need to improve food availability, quality and environmental benefits, for example through sustainable agri-food strategies. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of coherent and inclusive fo...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Jíchová, Jana
This article reports on a new empirical study evaluating crime concentration at places in a postsocialist 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 le...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin
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 r...
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