The evolution of spatial patterns of residential segregation in Central European Cities: The Łódź Functional Urban Region from mature socialism to mature post-socialism

Abstract Stewart and Oke (2012) recently proposed the concept of Local Climate Zones (LCZ) to describe the siting of urban meteorological stations and to improve the presentation of results amongst researchers. There is now a concerted effort, however, within the field of urban climate studies to map the LCZs across entire cities, providing a means to compare the internal structure of urban areas in a standardised way and to enable the comparison of cities. We designed a new GIS-based LCZ mapping method for Central European cities and compiled LCZ maps for three selected medium-sized Central European cities: Brno, Hradec Králové, and Olomouc (Czech Republic). The method is based on measurable physical properties and a clearly defined decision-making algorithm. Our analysis shows that the decision-making algorithm for defining the percentage coverage for individual LCZs showed good agreement (in 79–89% of cases) with areas defined on the basis of expert knowledge. When the distribution of LCZs on the basis of our method and the method of Bechtel and Daneke (2012) was compared, the results were broadly similar; however, considerable differences occurred for LCZs 3, 5, 10, D, and E. It seems that Central European cities show a typical spatial pattern of LCZ distribution but that rural settlements in the region also regularly form areas of built-type LCZ classes. The delineation and description of the spatial distribution of LCZs is an important step towards the study of urban climates in a regional setting.

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The Future of Central European Cities – Optimization of a Cellular Automaton for the Spatially Explicit Prediction of Urban Sprawl

Optimization Algorithms - Methods and Applications ◽

10.5772/62424 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Andreas Rienow

Keyword(s):

Cellular Automaton ◽

Urban Sprawl ◽

Spatially Explicit ◽

Central European ◽

European Cities ◽

The Future

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Municipal Activism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Prague: The House Numbered 207-V and Ghetto Clearance

Austrian History Yearbook ◽

10.1017/s0067237800020518 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 34 ◽

pp. 247-278

Author(s):

Cathleen M. Giustino

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Municipal Governments ◽

Central European ◽

The Public ◽

Public Projects ◽

European Cities ◽

Common Process ◽

History Of ◽

Late Nineteenth

There was always much that was ordinary about the house numbered 207-V up to the time of its disappearance from Prague's built landscape in 1905. Like many other buildings sheltering some of the city's most underprivileged residents, this place had no artistic worth; no one had contemplated hanging a plaque on its exterior to commemorate a well-known person having slept inside its walls; no published material pointed out any history-altering event that took place behind or in front of its doors. The ordinariness of house 207-V becomes even greater when its final years are situated within the history of a common process taking place, with some exceptions, throughout nineteenth-century Central Europe. Many of the structure's last experiences were part of the growth of what German historians of Germany have called the “Leistungsverwaltung,” and what Austrian historians of Austria- Hungary have called “die aktive Stadt.”1 These two different lab ls are used to describe the fact that during the course of the nineteenth century, a great many Central European cities expanded tremendously, not only in terms of their territoriesś populations, but also in terms of the number and extent of public projects that their municipal governments managed. The public projects included, among others, gas and electric works, transportation lines, sewers, baths, parks, libraries, museums, market halls, slaughterhouses,

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Social Order in Central European Cities

Journal of Urban History ◽

10.1177/009614429602200306 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 384-390 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

James H. Jackson

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Central European ◽

European Cities

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Dispersal limitation is stronger in communities of microorganisms than macroorganisms across Central European cities

Journal of Biogeography ◽

10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02664.x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 39 (6) ◽

pp. 1101-1111 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Milan Chytrý ◽

Zdeňka Lososová ◽

Michal Horsák ◽

Bohuslav Uher ◽

Tomáš Čejka ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Dispersal Limitation ◽

Central European ◽

European Cities

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Compositional development of spaces related to the fortification of cities from the point of view of garden art and landscape architecture

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis ◽

10.11118/actaun201260080087 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 60 (8) ◽

pp. 87-100

Author(s):

Lucie Hronová Šafářová

Keyword(s):

Special Interest ◽

Landscape Architecture ◽

Spatial Development ◽

Landscape Design ◽

Point Of View ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Historical Maps ◽

Central European ◽

European Cities ◽

The City

The article deals with the specific urban and suburban spaces where landscape design and garden art were confronted with existing or later disappearing fortification system. It analyses structures related to the landscape architecture from the baroque and classical times to the era of the pseudohistorical style, from the end of the 17th century to the end of the 19th century, with special interest devoted to the less known historical forms of the 18th century and their development. Using detailed historical maps and plans, the research reveals elements of landscape architecture in smaller or larger scale of several types – gardens close to the city walls, tree plantings and gardens on the fortification bastions, gardens and promenade alleys under them on the glacis or private gardens on the surrounding grounds, that were still influenced by the existence of the fortification system.Two historically important Moravian cities were used here as an example – Brno and Olomouc, where main types of green spaces (near the walls on their both sides) and several possible ways of their development were followed and analysed, and specific types of compositional and spatial development were defined. These could be understood as basic ‘evolution types’ specific for central European cities in general, and can be found in variations in other cities and towns in this region.

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Urban climate in Central European cities and global climate change

Acta climatologica et chorologica ◽

10.14232/acta.clim.2018.52.1 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 51-52 (1) ◽

pp. 7-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Anita Bokwa ◽

Petr Dobrovolný ◽

Tamás Gál ◽

Jan Geletič ◽

Ágnes Gulyás ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Urban Climate ◽

Global Changes ◽

Climate Modelling ◽

Complex Data ◽

Central European ◽

European Cities ◽

The Impact

Urban areas are among those most endangered with the potential global climate changes. The studies concerning the impact of global changes on local climate of cities are of a high significance for the urban inhabitants' health and wellbeing. This paper is the final report of a project (Urban climate in Central European cities and global climate change) with the aim to raise the public awareness on those issues in five Central European cities: Szeged (Hungary), Brno (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia), Kraków (Poland) and Vienna (Austria). Within the project, complex data concerning local geomorphological features, land use and long-term climatological data were used to perform the climate modelling analyses using the model MUKLIMO_3 provided by the German Weather Service (DWD).

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