L'objectif central de la thèse est de décrire, analyser et discuter la dynamique spatiale de la population tchèque entre 1989 et 2007. La structure démographique et les migrations, les deux composantes de cette dynamique spatiale, sont analysées par le biais de deux articulations de l’espace : le gradient urbain-périurbain-rural et la distinction régionale centre-périphérie. Des outils quantitatifs sont utilisés, avec en particulier un modèle gravitaire explicatif des migrations. L’orientation principale de l´analyse repose sur les migrations internes, comme étant l’agent majeur de la dynamique spatiale de la population. La structure, les déterminants, et l’évolution dans le temps de ces migrations sont étudiés, ainsi que leurs conséquences sur la structure démographique des ensembles spatiaux. La thèse indique que le processus de périurbanisation est récemment devenu un facteur majeur, influençant la dynamique spatiale de la population tchèque. Il est également établit que le facteur explicatif clé de la destination des migrations est le statut social du migrant, tandis que son âge ne présente qu’une importance secondaire. Cependant, étant donné que les Tchèques sont généralement peu mobiles, la déconcentration de la population s’opère à une échelle plus modeste que dans les pays d’Europe de l´Ouest. Cette constatation permet d’expliquer en quoi les tendances récentes des migrations résidentielles ont un impact mesuré relativement faible sur les structures sociales et démographiques de la population dans les catégories d´espace. / The aim of the thesis is to describe, analyse and discuss the development of spatial population dynamics in the Czech Republic between 1989 and 2007. Demographic structure and migration, the two components of spatial population dynamics, are analysed using two spatial dimensions, the urban-suburban-rural gradient and the core-periphery region distinction, using quantitative analyses, including gravity regression modelling of migration. The analysis primarily focuses on domestic migration as the main vehicle of spatial population dynamics. It discusses the structure, determinants, and temporal evolution of migration and its consequences on the population structure in different spatial categories. The thesis indicates that suburbanisation has recently become the main factor influencing Czech spatial population dynamics. The key factor determining migration destination is the social status of migrants, whereas age has only secondary importance. However, since Czechs are not very mobile, population dispersal is less large-scale than in Western-Europe. This explains why recent domestic migration patterns have had only a small measurable influence on the social or demographic structures of the population across spatial categories. / Cílem této disertační práce je popsat, analyzovat a diskutovat vývoj prostorové dynamiky obyvatel v České republice mezi lety 1989 a 2007. Demografická struktura a migrace, dvě komponenty prostorové dynamiky obyvatel, jsou analyzovány ve dvou prostorových dimenzích, v gradientu město-suburbium-venkov a v regionálním rozlišení jádrových a periferních regionů, prostřednictvím kvantitativní analýzy, včetně gravitačního regresního modelu migrace. Analýza se zaměřuje především na vnitřní migraci jako hlavního hybatele prostorové dynamiky obyvatel. Zabývá se strukturou, determinanty migrace a jejím vývojem v čase a také jejími dopady na strukturu obyvatel v jednotlivých prostorových kategoriích. V disertaci je ukázáno, že suburbanizace se v poslední době stala nejdůležitějším faktorem ovlivňujícím prostorovou dynamiku obyvatel v České republice. Hlavním faktorem určujícím směr migrace je sociální status migrantů, zatímco jejich věk má pouze druhořadý význam. Nicméně, tím, že Češi nejsou příliš migračně aktivní, populační dekoncentrace dosahuje menších rozměrů a objemů než v západoevropských zemích. To vysvětluje, proč novodobé migrační trendy měly zatím jen malý měřitelný dopad na sociální a demografické struktury obyvatel jednotlivých prostorových kategorií.

Zuzana Vernerová: The rural and urban culture in terms of suburbanisation and sustainable development Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Department of Cultural Studies, MA Thesis, 90 pages, 2012 This thesis deals with changes of rural and urban landscape. It examines a young generation attitude to the ideal habitation and its relation to the landscape through eponymous case study. It pursues the current young generation's ideal of housing and estimates possible development of future suburbanisation trends on the sample of 360 respondents from all regions of the Czech Republic. It is also mapping the relevance of suburbanization phenomena in respondents' opinions, their infrastructural and surrounding expectations in the view of their ideal housing. The thesis emphasizes the evolution of relation between man and the landscape and linked implications such as landscape liveability and permeability. The major theme is the suburbanisation phenomenon from its beginnings to actual trends. Key words: suburbanisation, landscape, ideal housing, landscape liveability, sustainable development

Urbanisation and suburban housing development are the foci subjects of this thesis. The process of urbanisation may differ from one country to another in terms of socio-economic and political structures, environmental characteristics and also local features. In this context, housing areas at the urban fringe of Ankara were found to have been developed highly compatible with urban land use theories / but different from the process experienced in developed countries. In this thesis, a different dimension of suburbanisation has been discussed with regards to middle and lower-middle income groups&rsquo / suburban movement. The reasons why lower-middle and lower income residents prefer to live at the urban fringe have been found out. Suburban developments have various opportunities for the households such as larger housing unit due to cheap and available land, better urban services, quiet and clean environment and privacy. However, households living in urban fringe who are relatively from middle and lower-middle income are subject to high transportation cost. It is expected that they make a trade off between lower housing units and greater commuting distances and also many opportunities of living in such a suburb. With regard to these, the process of suburbanisation of middle and lower-middle income groups in Ankara within the boundaries of Sincan and Etimesgut Quarters in terms of their social characters and the features of using their urban space and house is discussed according to plan decisions, house builder and households&rsquo / characteristics, urban development pattern of Turkey and Ankara and then Etimesgut and Sincan, considering the theoretical basis and historical process.

Ce projet de recherche s’inscrit dans un contexte spécifique d’étalement de la ville d’Antananarivo, capitale de Madagascar, au-delà de ses limites administratives actuelles, en englobant les espaces périphériques. La poussée de l’urbanisation expliquée par une forte croissance démographique aussi bien dans la ville que dans ses Communes périphériques, est source de profondes mutations qui sont vécues au quotidien par la population et sont visibles dans le paysage. Ainsi, cette recherche consiste à analyser le déroulement, les manifestations et les enjeux de ces mutations. Reconnaissant que la périurbanisation recouvre tellement d'aspects, la focalisation sur les thématiques -population, habitat et occupation des sols, constitue un choix pertinent dans les analyses. Elles sont au centre des dynamiques et des forts enjeux qui caractérisent les espaces périurbains. La démarche est basée sur une étude comparée de trois Communes Rurales (Tanjombato,Sabotsy Namehana et Ambohimangakely) situées à la périphérie immédiate de la ville et qui sont représentatives de l’agglomération de par leur poids démographique, leur localisation sur les axes majeurs de périurbanisation et leur niveau d’urbanisation. / Antananarivo, the capital city of Madagascar, is facing to rapid urbanization with over two million people in 2009. This process occurs mainly in the suburbs of the city, through the decentralization of housing and activities. From a spatial retrospective and perspective, the key effect of suburbanization is the rapid land use changing. In addition to that, the trend to suburbanization during the last twenty years, leads to a larger scale, and therefore to a new concept which is the Greater Antananarivo. In this context, the urban sprawl retains interest of many stakeholders, including the scientific world. Thus, this study is focused on demographic, social and spatial changes at suburban areas. It describes the particularities of Antananarivo, where suburbanization is characterized by a ribbon development along public transport and infrastructural facilities, a limited sky-scraper development, an extensive consumption of land and a low density sprawl. Indeed, from the old city located on an elevated and symbolic site, the urbanization is expanding to surrounding plains and outskirt centers. The colonial and post colonial expansion contains some planned areas of collective housing and mixed activities. However, the recent expansion results from the individual housing spread, due to the self-house-building system.

En raison des mutations des systèmes productifs et distributifs, les activités logistiques gagnent en importance au sein des régions métropolitaines telles que la métropole parisienne. Ce secteur fait irruption dans la métropole en y imprimant de nouvelles logiques économiques et géographiques. Ce développement économique va de pair avec une diversité de régulations publiques depuis des politiques communales et intercommunales (petites infrastructures de transport, zones logistiques), plutôt invisibles à l'échelle métropolitaine, jusqu'à des politiques métropolitaines (planification stratégique, compétition portuaire) en passant par la gestion d'infrastructures publiques spécifiques (ports et aéroports, terminaux ferroviaires). Ces différentes actions publiques, autour desquelles interagissent de nombreux acteurs publics et privés, constituent l'objet de notre recherche.Cette thèse montre que la diversité des actions publiques impliquées dans le développement logistique rend compte de la coexistence de plusieurs modes de gouvernance du développement logistique, de différentes coalitions d'acteurs qui soutiennent le développement logistique. Notre objectif empirique est d'analyser ces coalitions et les situer parmi la diversité des modes de gouvernance à l'œuvre au sein de l'espace métropolitain. D'un point de vue plus théorique, nous proposons ainsi, à travers l'analyse de la gouvernance du développement logistique, un éclairage au sujet des ressorts de la gouvernance métropolitaine en termes de géographie des modes de gouvernance, des modalités de participation des acteurs privés à l'action publique et de construction d'un agenda et d'une gouvernabilité métropolitains. / Due to the transformations of production, distribution and consumption systems, logistics activities gain in importance in global city regions such as the Greater Paris Region. This economic sector bursts in these urban regions, bringing in new economic and geographic logics. This development is embedded in a diversity of public actions from municipal policies (small transport facilities, logistics zones), almost invisible at the regional scale, to metropolitan policies (regional planning, port competition), including the management of specific public infrastructures (ports and airports, rail terminals). These different public actions, structuring the interactions of a variety of public and private actors, constitute the object of this research.This thesis demonstrates that the diversity of public actions involved in the logistics development of the Greater Paris Region corresponds to different coexistent modes of governance, to different coalitions of actors supporting this logistics development. The empirical aim is to analyze these coalitions while situating them among the multiple modes of governance at stake in the global city region. From a more theoretical point of view, this thesis draws some perspectives about metropolitan governance through the analysis of logistics development governance. It takes part in a better understanding of metropolitan governance in terms of modes of governance geography, in terms of participations of private actors in public action and in terms of social construction of a metropolitan agenda and governability.

Thinking of the villa quarters of Budapest, Andrássy Road, Svábhegy or the Rózsadomd are the ones that first come to mind of many. These are the most well-known rows of villas of the capital, but in the green zone of the 16th district there is a less well-known but yet even more remarkable villa quarter: Mátyásföld. Mátyásföld was founded in 1887 in the outskirts of Cinkota, part of the eastern agglomeration of Budapest at the time. Every source has recorded the circumstances of its establishment as legendary. However, its founder was a good businessman rather than a character from a fairy tale. He recognised the change of lifestyles typical of the era, and sought business opportunities. It became fashionable at the time that anyone who could afford to do so, created a second, representative home in the green area outside the city, but still within the reach of the centre. In the outskirts of the city, more and more holiday homes and villa quarters were established, and Mátyásföld was created also for this purpose. The central issue of this dissertation is how Mátyásföld, founded in the agglomeration of the capital, was built and how it managed to fit into the urban development of Budapest, as well as the life of its inhabitants. Beyond its unique geographic and administrative situation, the role...

Homeownership and suburbanisation are two sides of the same coin in the context of Australia. This thesis explores the housing system that facilitates homeownership under a framework of institutional path dependence and how that has facilitated spatial patterns of suburbanization in contemporary Melbourne. Australia has been considered a homeowner society for the larger part of the 20th century. Living and owning a house on a ‘quarter acre block’ in one of its major cities is said to have been a virtue even before homeownership was in reach for the majority of the Australian population. The years after WWII enabled up to 70 per cent of the population to access homeownership tenure. In that, this thesis analyses the institutional, societal and economic configurations that enabled increased homeownership provision, but also the historical processes that further facilitated a system around a dominant tenure. Path dependency theory, developed in the field of historical institutionalism, offers an analytical toolbox to examine long-term processes. In a broad sense, path dependency refers to the continuous reproduction of institutional systems in place. The second part of this thesis examines urbanisation processes in Melbourne, under a framework of institutional and spatial change. Cities are changing environments that, although, they inhabit determinist and reinforcing spatial patterns and institutions, transition over time. By looking at historical and contemporary institutional processes, this thesis examines metropolitan strategies to consolidate the outward growth in the city of Melbourne. Under the aspect of change, current challenges to the built environment are presented. A third analysis connects the macro discussion with a case study of a local housing provider in Melbourne, that in some regards may be viewed as antithesis to the contemporary building regime in the Australian and Melbourne context. As the first in-depth path dependency analysis in the Australian context, this thesis can be viewed as a contribution to the growing body of path dependency literature with a housing focus that also combines the spatial nature of urban environments.

The study deals with the evaluation of landscape changes and ecosystem functions in the case study situated in the hintreland of Prague with the emphasis on the process of suburbanization. It analyzes the amounts, the range and the types of the changes of landscape due to suburbanization process and their effects on landscape structure and function. Landscape changes are evaluated using remote sensing and software ArcGIS, function and services of ecosystems are evaluated by modified Hessen method. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The purpose of the present work is to provide a brief survey of the process of urban sprawl. What are its origins, how did it develop and why? Moreover, focus will be on envi-ronmental concerns in the framework of urban sprawl. The thesis concentrates on develop-ments in Europe and North America, where cities can look back on a long history of sprawl, and where processes have become very sophisticated. Based on a detailed description of the origins and history of urban sprawl in Europe and the United States, potentially sprawl-induced effects on the environment will be presented and discussed. In a further step, urban sprawl in two case studies (Stuttgart and Leipzig) will be highlighted and discussed with special focus on environ-mental effects. The purpose in doing so is basically to provide a basis and a starting point for further discussions concerning potential and actual effects of sprawl on environment con-cerns.

Master´s thesis adresses the issue of public spaces of inner city of Brno. These spaces have good prerequisities to become attractive places for everyday use or for spending a good free time. These prerequsities include for example compact city structure, well defined public spaces, walking city distances, presence of public and commercial facilities and distinctive genius loci. But public spaces in these localities often do not fulfill their own potential and stay as average free space inbetween buildings. Thesis suggests a detailed system for categorisation of squares and streets in the inner city of Brno and examines the reasons for potential non-fulfillment on these typologies, it tries to find out the problems of public spaces and how they can be solved.