Research team of the Faculty of Science, Charles University

Urban and Regional Laboratory

The main focus of the team is on sharing and discussing topics related to research and practical issues in cities, settlements, regional development and related research fields.

Urban and Regional Laboratory is a research working group associating social geographers affiliated within the Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development.

The main research fields

Central European cities
Urban geography
Social & physical environment
Migration & everyday mobility

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Atlas of Population

Historical GIS

Prague Suburbs

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Our services

We have long-term experience with processing regional and territorial analyses, situation analyses, and strategic documents at various scales (from individual cities and rural areas to macro-regional levels).

We offer our expertise within a diverse range of broadly defined issues related to urban and regional development.

Social & ethnic segregation
Quality of life & lifestyle
Unemployment and poverty
Social & ethnic segregation
City, urbanisation, suburbanisation
Spatial mobility & migration
Municipalities around large cities
Time use & leisure research
Age group related issues
Social & physical environment of cities

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Contact us

If you decide to visit us, we will be pleased to welcome you to our office at Albertov or at Legerova street. Contacts for individual members can be found on the profile pages.

Albertov 2038/6

room number 365
128 43 Praha 2 – Nové Město
tel. 221 951 378

Legerova 1878/5

room number 325 (URRlab)
128 43 Praha 2 – Nové Město
tel. 221 951 970

Contact person

Jiří Nemeškal
221 951 972
jiri.nemeskal@natur.cuni.cz

Postal address

KSGRR PřF UK
Albertov 2038/6
128 43 Praha 2 – Nové Město

Research team of the Faculty of Science, Charles University

Urban and Regional Laboratory

The main research fields

News

Prof. Vlček Scholarship for Adela Petrovic

CATference 2023 in Riga

IGU Conference in Mecico City

Atlas of Population

Historical GIS

Prague Suburbs

Recent projects

Big data in the analysis of urban mobility and spatio-temporal behaviour of the population

Place attachment and renovation in socialist housing estates of Prague and Bishkek

In the face of gentrification: the changing identities of working-class neighbourhoods in the inner-city of Prague

Recent expert articles

Interurban mobility: Eurythmic relations among metropolitan cities monitored by mobile phone data

Changes in children’s rhythms of everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic in a small town in the Prague metropolitan area

EO + Morphometrics: Understanding cities through urban morphology at large scale

Recent books

Prague and Central Bohemia: Current Population Processes and Socio-spatial Differentiation

Geografie „okrajem“: Každodenní časoprostorové zkušenosti

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Albertov 2038/6

Legerova 1878/5

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URRlab

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