Small towns of intermediate countryside

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Small towns of intermediate countryside

Original language description

Small towns always played an important role in the settlement system as providing suitable employment opportunities, urban services and social contacts. Due to high density of small towns there were established evenly settlements in the Czech Republic. The town location, its advantages and limits were determined by surrounding landscape, which formed the basis for its foundation and future expansion. As a small town can be considered a settlement with the basic characteristics of a town located on small area. One of the simplest division of cities is by population. Such division is not fully uniform. The paper results from dividing cities into four categories: small cities/towns (from 5,000 to 30,000 inhabitants), medium-sized cities (30,000 to 100,000 inhabitants), large cities (100,000 to 500,000 inhabitants) and metropolis (over 500,000 inhabitants). The close linkage of individual town parts to the centre, including basic services belongs among advantages of small towns. Small towns represent a compromise between the villages and cities and play an important role in regional and micro-regional centres. Besides, link to the surrounding countryside is still strong enough. Expansion of suburban residential development, manufacturing and logistics prevail in the surrounding countryside. Suburban landscape can be seen as a part of the landscape, which immediately melt into built-up area. Aim of the paper was to classify three settlements into the proper size category according to population number. Following methods were used: statistical survey focusing on development of population, characteristic of the area, land use and calculation of the coefficient of an ecological stability. The studied small towns fall into intermediate countryside according to typology of rural municipalities. Intermediate countryside represents average developed municipalities that are placed farther away from the large urban centres with good transport connections.

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů