Time-space Rhythms of the City – The Industrial and Post-industrial Brno

MULÍČEK, Ondřej, Robert OSMAN and Daniel SEIDENGLANZ. Time-space Rhythms of the City – The Industrial and Post-industrial Brno. Environment and Planning A. SAGE, 2016, vol. 48, No 1, p. 115-131. ISSN 0308-518X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X15594809.

Basic information

• Original name: Time-space Rhythms of the City – The Industrial and Post-industrial Brno
• Name in Czech: Časoprostorové rytmy města - industriální a postindustriální Brno
• Authors: MULÍČEK, Ondřej (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Robert OSMAN (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Daniel SEIDENGLANZ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Environment and Planning A, SAGE, 2016, 0308-518X.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50700 5.7 Social and economic geography
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Abstrakt Celý článek
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 1.389
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14310/16:00087723
• Organization unit: Faculty of Science
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X15594809
• UT WoS: 000367745100008
• Keywords (in Czech): rytmus; rytmizátor; postindustriální město; Brno; veřejná doprava
• Keywords in English: rhythm; pacemaker; post-industrial city; Brno; public transport
• Tags: AKR
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

This paper examines the transformation of the post-industrial city in terms of its temporal structure. It takes concepts of time geography, routine and rhythmicity of the classic Lund school, Lefebvre’s analysis of rhythms and Crang’s geographic application of the chronotope concept as its starting points. Analysing changes in the city bus transport services in Brno between 1989 and 2009, the paper attempts to capture in empirical terms the onset of the post-industrial phase of the city’s development. While temporality of an industrial city can be characterized by a shared rhythm determined by a small number of dominant pacemakers (industrial plants), the deindustrialized city is associated with a significant weakening of such pacemakers cutting across the society and thus with a distinctive individualization of urban rhythmicity.

Links

• GA14-14547S, research and development project: Name: Geografie městských rytmů

Investor: Czech Science Foundation