Die Dissertation beleuchtet das Thema Flächenverbrauch, welcher seit Jahrzehnten eines der dringlichsten Umweltprobleme in Deutschland und Europa darstellt, zumal mit ihm eine Reihe sozialer und wirtschaftlicher, u. a. fiskalischer, Auswirkungen einhergehen. Hauptschwerpunkt der Dissertation bilden retrospektive indikatorengestützte GIS-Analysen urbaner und suburbaner Regionen, für welche Flächennutzungs- und Transportsysteme-Datenbanken von acht europäischen Großstädten – Bilbao, Bratislava, Dresden, Kopenhagen, Lyon, München, Palermo und Porto – aus den EU-Projekten MURBANDY/MOLAND über einen Zeitraum von 50 Jahren anhand von vier Zeitschnitten (Anfang der 1950er bis Ende der 1990er Jahre) untersucht wurden. Dabei wurden Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in den Entwicklungen der Städte, ansatzweise ebenso mit Blick auf die unterschiedlichen Wirtschaftssysteme, herausgearbeitet. Hauptziel der Dissertation ist es, eine Lücke zwischen theoretischer Analyse des Flächenverbrauchs und der damit oft einhergehenden Zersiedelung, konkret in (sub)urbanen Siedlungsräumen, und der praktischen Vermittlung der Thematik, hauptsächlich mittels geeigneter kartographischer Darstellungsformen, zu schließen. Des Weiteren versucht die Dissertation, einerseits die wissenschaftliche Erforschung des Flächenverbrauchs mit dem politischen Handlungsbedarf zu verbinden und andererseits einen Bogen zur kommunikativen Vermittlung der Thematik an relevante gesellschaftliche Gruppen zu spannen. Für dieses Anliegen wurde die Arbeit um eine Betrachtung des bevölkerungsseitigen Umweltbewusstseins in Deutschland mit dem Fokus auf das Thema Flächenverbrauch sowie tiefergehende Überlegungen hinsichtlich der Vermittlungsformen und -wege, welche als weiteren Schwerpunkt kartographisch-konzeptionelle Betrachtungen beinhalten, erweitert. / The dissertation sheds light on the topic of land consumption, which marks one of the most pressing environmental problems in Germany as well as in Europe since decades, and which is accompanied by several social and economic, e.g. fiscal, effects. Retrospective indicator-aided GIS analyses of urban and suburban regions – using land use data of eight European cities (Bilbao, Bratislava, Dresden, Copenhagen, Lyon, Munich, Palermo and Porto), taken from the EU projects MURBANDY/MOLAND with a time span of about 50 years (beginning of the 1950s until end of the 1990s) – build the main part of the work. Within this, similarities and differences in the developments were worked out, to some degree also including a look on the different economic and political systems at that time. The principal objective of the PhD thesis is to close a gap between the theoretical analysis of land consumption and the often linked urban sprawl, particularly in (sub)urban settlement regions, and the practical communication of the research subject, primarily by means of adequate cartographic presentations. Furthermore, the dissertation aims on the one hand at connecting scientific investigations of land consumption and political need for action, and on the other hand at building a link to the communication to various stakeholders in the society. For this, the dissertation was also broadened by an analysis of the environmental awareness of the German society – focussing on the topic of land consumption – and by deeper considerations regarding forms and ways of communicating the topic in particular by means of cartographic approaches.

The Ph.D. Thesis is based on the principle of open approach into the urban greenery in the frame of sustainability improvement in inner cities. Sustainable inner city planning and management brings also the supply for indicators of sustainability and life quality in urban space. The Ph.D. thesis is interested in evaluation of positive and negative impact of greenery into life quality in the inner city. There is studied the impact of greenery into the human being in the city and what has influence on urban greenery too. The thesis observes existing indicators whose describe urban greenery quality and its utilizing from the point of view of sustainability and collaterally observe the greenery perception from the city inhabitant’s point of view. On the basement of analysis and theoretical knowledge including in the thesis is for urban life quality measurement constructed new aggregated indicator – the Indicator of Common Urban Greenery Quality. This indicator is in the thesis valuated on the data set of 70 Czech cities and medium sized towns. There is valuated its possibility to describe urban greenery potential. The relationship between the indicator and clime change and other urban development changes is also solved. The indicator and its mathematical construction brings new information about urban greenery potential and its impact and usage in city sustainability and urban life quality increasing.