Reframing Centrality: Exploring Time-Space Imaginations in
Czech Border Microregions

k 2025

Reframing Centrality: Exploring Time-Space Imaginations in Czech Border Microregions

MALÝ, Jiří a Ondřej MULÍČEK

Základní údaje

Originální název

Reframing Centrality: Exploring Time-Space Imaginations in Czech Border Microregions

Název anglicky

Reframing Centrality: Exploring Time-Space Imaginations in Czech Border Microregions

Autoři

MALÝ, Jiří a Ondřej MULÍČEK

Vydání

Cities After Transition: 11th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference, 2025

Další údaje

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Klíčová slova anglicky

Centrality; Time-space; Experience; Czech micro-regions

Změněno: 28. 9. 2025 15:38, Mgr. Jiří Malý, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

This paper explores centrality by contrasting the dominant polycentric planning discourse with the perception of lived space. Urban system theories perceive the centre as a tangible feature of both the physical and social urban landscape, grounded in aggregated data analysis and embedded in the technical planning discourse. This continues to be reflected in European spatial policy that normatively prescribes a desired model of territorial development. Yet, such analytical representations often fail to reflect everyday lived experience and ignore the temporality of action space. Based on nearly 2,000 face-to-face questionnaires using a non-probability quota sample, the study investigates potential discrepancies between analytically derived spatial representations and individually perceived time-space experience. The case study focuses on peripheral and border regions of the Czech Republic—postsocialist, formerly industrialised areas affected by transformation, depopulation, and service decline. Preliminary findings show that many people anchor their activities within a single spatio-temporal context and perceive time and space in a predominantly monocentric manner. However, mapping individual action time-spaces reveals notable heterogeneity in imagined centralities across sociodemographic groups. This contrast between analytical and experience-based centrality may offer valuable insights for planning and regional policy.

Návaznosti

CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008717, interní kód MU

Název: Společnost v pohybu: příležitosti a rizika nových forem mobility pro českou společnost a ekonomiku

Investor: Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy ČR, Společnost v pohybu: příležitosti a rizika nových forem mobility pro českou společnost a ekonomiku, Priorita 1 - Výzkum a vývoj

Citovat

MALÝ, Jiří a Ondřej MULÍČEK. Reframing Centrality: Exploring Time-Space Imaginations in Czech Border Microregions. In Cities After Transition: 11th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference. 2025.

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   booktitle = {Cities After Transition: 11th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference},
   keywords = {Centrality; Time-space; Experience; Czech micro-regions},
   title = {Reframing Centrality: Exploring Time-Space Imaginations in Czech Border Microregions},
   year = {2025}
}

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ER  -

MALÝ, Jiří a Ondřej MULÍČEK. Reframing Centrality: Exploring Time-Space Imaginations in Czech Border Microregions. In \textit{Cities After Transition: 11th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference}. 2025.

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