cities. Original city areas (before joining) were separated from these villages by
agricultural and/or forested areas in many cities. Core areas and amalgamated
ones did not have a common historical development and created in fact a set of
individual urban areas with a central headquarter, services, etc.
• Associated areas are neighboring cadasters of villages that enlarged the core
areas in 1980s.
• Peripheral areas are villages that became self-standing administrative areas. The
separations occurred in the Czech Republic after the political change in the
country in early 1990s.
Core areas represent compact urban areas with a common historical development – described in Sect. 5.2. – forming thus homogenous units from the point of
view of urbanization. It was the reason why the authors analyzed the development
within core areas of cities and administrative areas.
5.3.2 Selected Cities
To analyze the influence of political regimes on land use development in the Czech
Republic, a set of 36 cities of various sizes was processed. These cities had a
complete set of indicators of 35 year period from the end of 1970s till 2005. The
communist regime covers in this analysis 1970–1989 period and the democratic one
1990–2005.
It was decided to analyze the differences in the developments of urbanization in
this time scale and as a function of road traffic intensity. Road traffic intensity
expresses significantly economical differentiation among the population and is one
of the more important indicators of urban areas. Figure 5.1 shows a distinct break of
the number of cars between both periods/regimes in examples of big cities (Brno,
Ostrava, Olomouc, Hradec Kra ´love ´) and small cities (Zlı ´n and Kutna ´ Hora).
Table 5.1 comprises of a list of all the cities which are processed is in the chapter.
Three groups of cities were used for processing to separate them into groups with
relatively common sizes and therefore similar conditions within each group. The
groups were created according to the number of inhabitants in the processed cities.
Location of the cities is in Fig. 5.2 and the position of the Czech Republic in
Europe is in Fig. 5.3.
5.3.3 Spatial Data
Spatial data had two different sources. One of them were data of the Czech Office of
Survey, Mapping and Cadastre (COSMOC) that determines administrative boundaries. Administrative areas of individual years were derived from a list of cadasters
which formed the given city area in the appropriate year.
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agricultural and/or forested areas in many cities. Core areas and amalgamated
ones did not have a common historical development and created in fact a set of
individual urban areas with a central headquarter, services, etc.
• Associated areas are neighboring cadasters of villages that enlarged the core
areas in 1980s.
• Peripheral areas are villages that became self-standing administrative areas. The
separations occurred in the Czech Republic after the political change in the
country in early 1990s.
Core areas represent compact urban areas with a common historical development – described in Sect. 5.2. – forming thus homogenous units from the point of
view of urbanization. It was the reason why the authors analyzed the development
within core areas of cities and administrative areas.
5.3.2 Selected Cities
To analyze the influence of political regimes on land use development in the Czech
Republic, a set of 36 cities of various sizes was processed. These cities had a
complete set of indicators of 35 year period from the end of 1970s till 2005. The
communist regime covers in this analysis 1970–1989 period and the democratic one
1990–2005.
It was decided to analyze the differences in the developments of urbanization in
this time scale and as a function of road traffic intensity. Road traffic intensity
expresses significantly economical differentiation among the population and is one
of the more important indicators of urban areas. Figure 5.1 shows a distinct break of
the number of cars between both periods/regimes in examples of big cities (Brno,
Ostrava, Olomouc, Hradec Kra ´love ´) and small cities (Zlı ´n and Kutna ´ Hora).
Table 5.1 comprises of a list of all the cities which are processed is in the chapter.
Three groups of cities were used for processing to separate them into groups with
relatively common sizes and therefore similar conditions within each group. The
groups were created according to the number of inhabitants in the processed cities.
Location of the cities is in Fig. 5.2 and the position of the Czech Republic in
Europe is in Fig. 5.3.
5.3.3 Spatial Data
Spatial data had two different sources. One of them were data of the Czech Office of
Survey, Mapping and Cadastre (COSMOC) that determines administrative boundaries. Administrative areas of individual years were derived from a list of cadasters
which formed the given city area in the appropriate year.
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