Commuting flows in the post-socialist city region - actors and places
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The aim of the paper is to depict the functional structure of the post-socialist city region through the analysis of commuting-to-work flows. Detailed data on commuting are used to outline the relational structure of the Brno city region and to derive the relational-based characteristics of particular metropolitan sub-areas. Firstly, employment centers, as well as the areas with the negative commuting balance, were identified to recognize the elementary functional division of the urban region. Secondly, sub-regions with high levels of relational self-containment, representing rather autonomous spatial employment systems, were delimited. Thirdly, the set of individuals involved in the particular flows was scrutinized to get the picture of daily spatial routine of distinct social and professional status groups. Fourthly, the identified relational metropolitan structure was confronted with the socio-economic and morphogenetic patterns based on more or less static attributes of urban population and physical environment. Special attention was paid to multi-layered pattern of linkages that attach different socio-economic groups to specific places with different dynamics of the transitional post-socialist development. |
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