Název publikace/Name
Prague and Central Bohemia: Current Population Processes and Socio-spatial Differentiation
Citace/Citation
OUŘEDNÍČEK, M. ed. (2022): Prague and Central Bohemia: Current Population Processes
and Socio-spatial Differentiation. Karolinum Press, Prague.
Abstrakt/Abstract
The theme of socio-spatial differentiation has belonged to the core issues of social
geography and urban studies for a long time. The general aim of the book is to
describe and explain the current socio-spatial differentiation of Prague and the Central
Bohemian Region and the processes that have influenced it during the first two decades
of the twenty-first century. The book offers its own theoretical perspective on the
structuration of spatial patterns and the social environment, a general view of regional
development, and the main socio-spatial processes of the period after transition. Maps
are an important part of this volume and concentrate crucial information within most
chapters. Apart from the static information described in the maps, the book offers a look
at current population “processes”, as hinted at by the subtitle of the publication. The
presentation and evaluation of “processes” require more dynamic forms of cartographic
visualisation and new methods of investigation. Among them, new tools of segregation
measurement, various approaches for the use of mobile phone data, and an innovative
form of population forecast are presented in the book. The common thread connecting
all chapters is a regional focus on Prague and the Central Bohemian Region and
a quantitative approach to comparing spatial patterns and regional processes.