Found 513 publications (displayed results 61 - 80)

The article explores how homeless people make places in the public space, while revealing some of the overlooked effects these places may have on the wider city. The article relies on extensive ethnographic research and media coverage analysis of a place called Eskalátory (the Escalators) in Pilsen, a second-order city in Czechia. Eskalátory is part of an underpass with a four-lane road, a tramway, and four outdoor escalators, altogether, forming a specific urban assemblage.

Topic: housing, economics, globalisation, urban and rural studies, social inequalities

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Local and regional studies

The Stability of Crime at Places: A Case Study of a Czech City

Topic: trust/social cohesion, crime, urban and rural studies, regions, public policy

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Local and regional studies

Immigrants in large Czech cities 2008–2015: the analysis of changing residential patterns using population grid data – This article contributes to the discussion of the segregation of immigrants by presenting evidence from a new destination country of international migration. It explores residential patterns of immigrants, defined by citizenship, and their development in selected large Czech cities. The analysis is focused on six main immigrant groups.

Topic: housing, trust/social cohesion, identity, urban and rural studies, methodology, regions, public administration

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Local and regional studies

Basic trends in the deployment of foreigners in the Czech Republic 2008-2015: Residential segregation from the perspective of individualized neighbourhoods of various size, by Martin Šimon, Ivana Křížková, Adam Klsák, Renáta Mikešová and Yana Leontiyeva

Topic: housing, identity, kultura, urban and rural studies, methodology, migration and mobility, regions, public administration

Type of publication: Peer-reviewed journal articleDepartment: Czech Social Science Data Archive, Local and regional studies

This article focuses on the issue of climate change scepticism among the inhabitants of the Czech Republic and pursues two objectives: to compare climate change scepticism of Czech citizens with citizens of other European countries and to examine the relationship between individual characteristics of Czech citizens and their opinion on climate change. For this purpose, the concepts of epistemic scepticism and response scepticism are employed.

Topic: value orientations, klimatická změna

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Local and regional studies

Výzkumná studie se věnuje problematice občanské vybavenosti malých obcí. Hledá odpovědi na následující otázky: (1) Které aspekty občanské vybavenosti jsou v malých obcích v Česku nejrozšířenější a kterými typy služeb nebo infrastruktur jsou obce naopak vybaveny méně?

Topic: urban and rural studies, regions

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Local and regional studies

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. However, let’s start with your beginnings. I have discovered that you started to study informal urbanism in Montevideo in the 90s, 1997 to be exact, which is a pretty long time ago. So, how did it all begin?

Topic: housing, economics, globalisation, urban and rural studies, migration and mobility, regions, social inequalities

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Local and regional studies

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 individual’s housing situation. To our knowledge, there has been no prior exhaustive attempt to explore the spatial mobility of homeless people using Global Positioning System (GPS) location devices.

Topic: housing, urban and rural studies, methodology, migration and mobility, social inequalities, technology/technique

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Local and regional studies, Socioeconomics of Housing

The book explores "rurality" as a cultural category. In 18 chapters, European ethnologists and cultural anthropologists discuss the methodological and conceptual approaches that can be used to capture and describe the ›rural‹ beyond generalizations, causal speculations and dichotomous thinking.

Topic: urban and rural studies, regions

Type of publication: MonographDepartment: Local and regional studies

The chapter gives a thematic introduction into the edited volume “The Rural as a Cultural Category. Contemporary Perspectives of Cultural Studies on Urban-Rural Relations” edited by Manuel Trummer and Anja Decker.

Topic: urban and rural studies, regions

Type of publication: Chapter in monographDepartment: Local and regional studies

This paper focuses on a grassroots community movement address-ing climate change: the transnational Transition (Towns) movement. While this movement has mainly spread to Anglophone countries, it is almost en-tirely absent from Eastern Europe and the Czech Republic in particular.

Topic: klimatická změna, civil society, životní prostředí

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Local and regional studies

The share of foreigners in individualised neighbourhoods in the Czech Republic 2015: a multi-scale approach.

Topic: housing, urban and rural studies, methodology, migration and mobility, public policy

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Local and regional studies

Topic: technology/technique, public administration, health

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Local and regional studies

Topic: housing, economics, urban and rural studies, wages and incomes, social inequalities

Type of publication: Chapter in monographDepartment: Local and regional studies

The aim of this manuscript is to analyze notions of democracy among Czech mayors. Czechia is dotted with municipalities of various sizes, each with its own mayor, each of whom has a vision of how democracy at the local level should be practiced. Our focus here is on two types of democracies that are seen as alternatives: participatory democracy and representative democracy.

Topic: elites, urban and rural studies, public administration

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Local and regional studies

In the last three decades, Karlovy Vary has been the main destination for Russians in Czechia (besides Prague) in terms of residential, investment and tourist attractiveness. This has affected many aspects of its life. Presence of foreign inhabitants, businessmen and tourists change the composition of the population according to citizenship, property structure of real estates, their physical condition and use, or international tourism and the related orientation of local economic activities.

Topic: housing, identity, urban and rural studies, migration and mobility, public administration

Type of publication: Peer-reviewed journal articleDepartment: Local and regional studies

This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago.

Topic: elites, public administration

Type of publication: Chapter in monographDepartment: Local and regional studies

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