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Cultural, Environmental or an Anthropological typology of the City? The Concept of Genius Loci and Local Mobility in Brno in the Czech Republic

PAŘIL, Vilém, Eva CHOVANCOVÁ and Aneta KRAJÍČKOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Cultural, Environmental or an Anthropological typology of the City? The Concept of Genius Loci and Local Mobility in Brno in the Czech Republic

Authors

PAŘIL, Vilém (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Eva CHOVANCOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Aneta KRAJÍČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Scientia et Societas, Prague, NEWTON College, 2020, 1801-7118

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50702 Urban studies

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14560/20:00117557

Organization unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Keywords in English

city; environment; Genius loci; typology

Tags

Reviewed
Změněno: 28/11/2023 12:20, Mgr. Pavlína Kurková

Abstract

V originále

This research paper aims to presents the inconvenient approach to identify the typology of the city on the example of the Czech regional centre of Brno. This ‘town’ became ‘city’ since 1919 when 23 other municipalities were annexed (based on the project Greater Brno) according to law 213/1919. This process starts again through the suburbanization in the 90s. Brno changes its appearance and characteristic features that individual affiliated districts/villages bring to the agglomeration. These characteristics of urban areas refer to the lives of different people and different societies, their sources of livelihood, their status, but also the representation of the majority or minority society. Some areas, despite swift construction development, keep their genius loci, others change it, and others lose it. The goal of this paper is to identify Brno's urban areas according to its ‘genius loci’, conditioned by the socio-cultural, urban and environmental determinants of the given locality with a distinction not only of rural, suburban or urban but also of the cultural, historical, socio-anthropological or regional-economics. The method proceeds from semi-structured interviews and ‘tram-story’ location choice to achieve as objective results as possible in such a subjective issue as Genius loci. Then a selected application example presents Brno Bohunice. This example shows the Genius loci isn´t the case of fast development or stagnation, but different factors determine it.

Links

CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_026/0008430, interní kód MU
(CEP code: EF16_026/0008430)
Name: Nová mobilita - vysokorychlostní dopravní systémy a dopravní chování populace (Acronym: NOVÁ MOBILITA)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Priority axis 1: Strengthening capacities for high-quality research
EF16_026/0008430, research and development project
Name: Nová mobilita - vysokorychlostní dopravní systémy a dopravní chování populace