Banská Bystrica a České Budějovice v transformačnom období - závery z komparácie
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2008
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Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, Fakulta pedagogická, Katedra geografie
Abstract
The paper presents main results of the comparative study of
eské Bud jovice and Banská Bystrica (cities in the Czech and Slovak Republics, regional
capitals with a similar population size, administrative rank and third and quarter sector
orientation of city economy) from the perspective of urban geography. The author summarizes
outcomes from the comparison of changes in inner spatial structure of researched cities during
the transitional, postsocialist period (from 1991). As a point of departure, the author observes
differences in all spatial structures of the cities that are outcomes of uneven historical
development before 1918 and their different geopolitical position. On the other hand, the author
establishes common features of the development of eské Bud jovice and Banská Bystrica,
mainly those connected with the socialist period (1948 – 1989), which brought convergency in
many areas, such as appearance and operation of cities. Therefore researched cities got over the
period of transition with lot of common and a few specific problems.
eské Bud jovice entered the transitional period in better position which was reflected also in
a socioeconomic position of its inhabitants. The reason was that changes in intraurban structures
of eské Bud jovice in the socialist period were not as extensive as were fundamental changes
in the city organism of Banská Bystrica that was much less developed in the capitalist period
(before the Second World War) as eské Bud jovice.
The result of these facts was reflected especially in shifts and an extent of the postsocialist
transformation of spatial structures in the researched cities. These shifts we can summarize as a
combination of: 1. the time shift (2-4 years); 2. the shift in extent; 3. the shift in quality … in the
process of postsocialist transformation in eské Bud jovice and Banská Bystrica. These shifts
represent the backwardness of the development of the postsocialist transition in Banská Bystrica
opposite to eské Bud jovice, which was induced by modified conditions of the postsocialist
transition. The author illustrates these modified features on the examples of four case studies (the
transformation of retail; the housing construction; the residential suburbanization; the situation of
homeless people in both cities).
The last part of the paper is dedicated to an assessment of comparative studies of the
(postsocialist) cities, their strengths and problems (e.g. the problem of data comparability). It is
possible to stress that comparative studies of (postsocialist) cities bring many important findings
and impulses, which stay unknown if we study cities only individually.
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Bánská Bystrica, České Budějovice, územní struktury, porovnání
Citation
Miscelanea geographica: Universitatis Bohemiae Occidentalis. 2008, roč. 14, s. 47-56.