Luděk Sýkora
Biographic Data
| ID | 1555591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luděk Sýkora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luděk |
| FAMILY NAME | Sýkora |
| SIGNATURE | SÝKORA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9880-4650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Questioning post-socialism in urban studies? Don’t shoot ourselves in the foot
The Performativity of Metropolization
This article identifies a set of practices through which multiple actors, from the European Commission to local governments, perform the concept of the metropolitan region. It specifically investigates the practices and actions which brought this concept into being in the Prague metropolitan region of Czechia. We uncover how the meanings associated with the concept of the metropolitan region evolved through material‐discursive practices constitut…
Territorial Arrangements of Small and Medium‐Sized Towns from a Functional‐Spatial Perspective
This contribution applies a functional‐spatial perspective to the study of small and medium‐sized towns. A methodology for functional analysis is developed and tested to identify towns, distinguish towns from cities, and detect town positionality within urban territorial arrangements, focusing on whether they are autonomous, networked with other towns or agglomerated with large cities. The methodology is used to compare settlement systems in two …
Locked-in post-socialism
This paper uses the experience of post-socialist district heating reforms to tell a broader story about the continued and shared challenges that central and eastern European cities face as they grapple with the legacies of the recent and more distant past. We argue that the restructuring of this infrastructural domain has been contingent upon geographically embedded trajectories stemming from previous historical periods, while leading to the crea…
Living Together in an Urban Neighbourhood
This article contributes to the discussion of everyday interactions between a settled majority population and new immigrants in an urban neighbourhood with recent experience of immigration. It analyses daily interactions between the majority population and Vietnamese immigrants in one Prague neighbourhood in an effort to identify both tensions and conflicts and conviviality in everyday life, while distinguishing between the stereotypes prevalent …
Cities Under Postsocialism
Discursive Framings of Low Carbon Urban Transitions
The discursive and representational aspects of the multiple political, economic and cultural challenges associated with low carbon urban transitions remain insufficiently explored in the academic literature. This is particularly true in the post-communist states of eastern and central Europe, which have been undergoing an additional transition of their own—from a centrally planned to a market-based economy. This paper, therefore, explores the man…
Multiple Transformations
This paper develops a conceptual framework for interpreting the process of urban change in post-communist cities. The departure from the legacies of the communist past has been effected through multiple transformation dynamics of institutional, social and urban change. While institutional reforms have been largely accomplished, the adjustment of urban land use patterns to new societal conditions is still ongoing. Hence, post-communist cities are …
New Socio‐spatial Formations
The paper investigates places of residential segregation and separation in Czech cities and discusses them in the context of new socio‐spatial divisions that are emerging in the context of post‐socialist transformations in the Czech Republic. It is argued that in post‐socialist countries, where patterns shaped in previous decades still apply and new patterns conditioned by the mechanisms of capitalist society are emerging, the current pattern of …
The micro-regional nature of functional urban areas (FUAs)
This article argues that any conceptualization and delimitation of functional urban areas must reflect their formation on the micro-scale and detect the smallest complete, complex, organic territorial units where the daily life of the population is organized. This is often neglected when a top-down approach is applied, leading to incomplete representations of reality that can misinform territorial policies. In presenting the analysis of the Czech…
A city in motion
This contribution attempts to reveal the relations between new suburban areas and other parts of the Prague metropolitan area by investigating the time‐space activity and mobility patterns of the inhabitants of newly built suburban districts. The focus on some aspects of the everyday life of people in new suburbs helps us to identify the impact of suburbanization on the changing geography of the metropolitan region and to better understand how th…
Suburbanisation and Its Social Consequences
The article argues that suburbanisation is going to become an important part of research and the social agenda. First, suburbanisation is the most important process of urban change in the metropolitan regions of post-communist cities. Second, some forms of suburbanisation, specifically, sprawl-like developments, introduce certain negative economic, social, and environmental consequences. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate this process from…
Regional Policy and Planning in Europe
1. Introduction 2. The economic basis of integration 3. Introduction to government and planning systems 4. Unitary states with centralised planning powers 5. Unitary states with planning powers substantially devolved to the municipalities 6. Unitary states with planning powers devolving to the regions 7. Unitary states with planning power substantially devolved to the regions 8. Federal states with planning power largely vested in the regions 9. …
Changes in the internal spatial structure of post-communist Prague
Processes of Socio-spatial Differentiation in Post-communist Prague
This paper analyses processes which transform the socio-spatial pattern of post-communist Prague and describes major changes in the city's social geography. It begins with a brief introduction about the socio-spatial pattern of a socialist city and a discussion of methods and concepts of investigation of processes of socio-spatial change in contemporary Prague. Growing income inequalities and transformations in the housing system are examined as …
City growth and migration patterns in the context of 'communist' and 'transitory' periods in Prague's urban development / Croissance urbaine et modèles migratoires à Prague au temps du communisme et d…
Croissance urbaine et modèles migratoires à Prague au temps du communisme et dans la période de transition Cet article présente le rôle des migrations dans le développement de l'agglomération pragoise depuis la fin du XIXe siècle en insistant sur la période récente. Avec la chute du communisme, la nature des mouvements migratoires s'est modifiée. En distinguant trois auréoles radio-concentriques nommées « ville-centre », « Prague communiste », et…
Local Urban Restructuring as a Mirror of Globalisation Processes
This paper argues that Prague is rapidly becoming a standard Western city considerably shaped by forces of contemporary global capitalism. The impact of global forces on local urban restructuring in Prague is enabled by system transformations, which form the backbone of a government-directed transition to market economy. The system transformations, such as public management deregulation, privatisation processes and liberalisation of prices, have …
City in Transition
Prague
Multiple Transformations
This paper develops a conceptual framework for interpreting the process of urban change in post-communist cities. The departure from the legacies of the communist past has been effected through multiple transformation dynamics of institutional, social and urban change. While institutional reforms have been largely accomplished, the adjustment of urban land use patterns to new societal conditions is still ongoing. Hence, post-communist cities are …
Changes in the internal spatial structure of post-communist Prague
Processes of Socio-spatial Differentiation in Post-communist Prague
This paper analyses processes which transform the socio-spatial pattern of post-communist Prague and describes major changes in the city's social geography. It begins with a brief introduction about the socio-spatial pattern of a socialist city and a discussion of methods and concepts of investigation of processes of socio-spatial change in contemporary Prague. Growing income inequalities and transformations in the housing system are examined as …
A city in motion
This contribution attempts to reveal the relations between new suburban areas and other parts of the Prague metropolitan area by investigating the time‐space activity and mobility patterns of the inhabitants of newly built suburban districts. The focus on some aspects of the everyday life of people in new suburbs helps us to identify the impact of suburbanization on the changing geography of the metropolitan region and to better understand how th…
New Socio‐spatial Formations
The paper investigates places of residential segregation and separation in Czech cities and discusses them in the context of new socio‐spatial divisions that are emerging in the context of post‐socialist transformations in the Czech Republic. It is argued that in post‐socialist countries, where patterns shaped in previous decades still apply and new patterns conditioned by the mechanisms of capitalist society are emerging, the current pattern of …
Local Urban Restructuring as a Mirror of Globalisation Processes
This paper argues that Prague is rapidly becoming a standard Western city considerably shaped by forces of contemporary global capitalism. The impact of global forces on local urban restructuring in Prague is enabled by system transformations, which form the backbone of a government-directed transition to market economy. The system transformations, such as public management deregulation, privatisation processes and liberalisation of prices, have …
City in Transition
The micro-regional nature of functional urban areas (FUAs)
This article argues that any conceptualization and delimitation of functional urban areas must reflect their formation on the micro-scale and detect the smallest complete, complex, organic territorial units where the daily life of the population is organized. This is often neglected when a top-down approach is applied, leading to incomplete representations of reality that can misinform territorial policies. In presenting the analysis of the Czech…
Locked-in post-socialism
This paper uses the experience of post-socialist district heating reforms to tell a broader story about the continued and shared challenges that central and eastern European cities face as they grapple with the legacies of the recent and more distant past. We argue that the restructuring of this infrastructural domain has been contingent upon geographically embedded trajectories stemming from previous historical periods, while leading to the crea…
Territorial Arrangements of Small and Medium‐Sized Towns from a Functional‐Spatial Perspective
This contribution applies a functional‐spatial perspective to the study of small and medium‐sized towns. A methodology for functional analysis is developed and tested to identify towns, distinguish towns from cities, and detect town positionality within urban territorial arrangements, focusing on whether they are autonomous, networked with other towns or agglomerated with large cities. The methodology is used to compare settlement systems in two …
Suburbanisation and Its Social Consequences
The article argues that suburbanisation is going to become an important part of research and the social agenda. First, suburbanisation is the most important process of urban change in the metropolitan regions of post-communist cities. Second, some forms of suburbanisation, specifically, sprawl-like developments, introduce certain negative economic, social, and environmental consequences. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate this process from…
Prague
Discursive Framings of Low Carbon Urban Transitions
The discursive and representational aspects of the multiple political, economic and cultural challenges associated with low carbon urban transitions remain insufficiently explored in the academic literature. This is particularly true in the post-communist states of eastern and central Europe, which have been undergoing an additional transition of their own—from a centrally planned to a market-based economy. This paper, therefore, explores the man…
The Performativity of Metropolization
This article identifies a set of practices through which multiple actors, from the European Commission to local governments, perform the concept of the metropolitan region. It specifically investigates the practices and actions which brought this concept into being in the Prague metropolitan region of Czechia. We uncover how the meanings associated with the concept of the metropolitan region evolved through material‐discursive practices constitut…
Living Together in an Urban Neighbourhood
This article contributes to the discussion of everyday interactions between a settled majority population and new immigrants in an urban neighbourhood with recent experience of immigration. It analyses daily interactions between the majority population and Vietnamese immigrants in one Prague neighbourhood in an effort to identify both tensions and conflicts and conviviality in everyday life, while distinguishing between the stereotypes prevalent …
Prague
City in Transition
Local Urban Restructuring as a Mirror of Globalisation Processes
This paper argues that Prague is rapidly becoming a standard Western city considerably shaped by forces of contemporary global capitalism. The impact of global forces on local urban restructuring in Prague is enabled by system transformations, which form the backbone of a government-directed transition to market economy. The system transformations, such as public management deregulation, privatisation processes and liberalisation of prices, have …
City growth and migration patterns in the context of 'communist' and 'transitory' periods in Prague's urban development / Croissance urbaine et modèles migratoires à Prague au temps du communisme et d…
Croissance urbaine et modèles migratoires à Prague au temps du communisme et dans la période de transition Cet article présente le rôle des migrations dans le développement de l'agglomération pragoise depuis la fin du XIXe siècle en insistant sur la période récente. Avec la chute du communisme, la nature des mouvements migratoires s'est modifiée. En distinguant trois auréoles radio-concentriques nommées « ville-centre », « Prague communiste », et…
Changes in the internal spatial structure of post-communist Prague
Processes of Socio-spatial Differentiation in Post-communist Prague
This paper analyses processes which transform the socio-spatial pattern of post-communist Prague and describes major changes in the city's social geography. It begins with a brief introduction about the socio-spatial pattern of a socialist city and a discussion of methods and concepts of investigation of processes of socio-spatial change in contemporary Prague. Growing income inequalities and transformations in the housing system are examined as …
Regional Policy and Planning in Europe
1. Introduction 2. The economic basis of integration 3. Introduction to government and planning systems 4. Unitary states with centralised planning powers 5. Unitary states with planning powers substantially devolved to the municipalities 6. Unitary states with planning powers devolving to the regions 7. Unitary states with planning power substantially devolved to the regions 8. Federal states with planning power largely vested in the regions 9. …
Suburbanisation and Its Social Consequences
The article argues that suburbanisation is going to become an important part of research and the social agenda. First, suburbanisation is the most important process of urban change in the metropolitan regions of post-communist cities. Second, some forms of suburbanisation, specifically, sprawl-like developments, introduce certain negative economic, social, and environmental consequences. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate this process from…
A city in motion
This contribution attempts to reveal the relations between new suburban areas and other parts of the Prague metropolitan area by investigating the time‐space activity and mobility patterns of the inhabitants of newly built suburban districts. The focus on some aspects of the everyday life of people in new suburbs helps us to identify the impact of suburbanization on the changing geography of the metropolitan region and to better understand how th…
New Socio‐spatial Formations
The paper investigates places of residential segregation and separation in Czech cities and discusses them in the context of new socio‐spatial divisions that are emerging in the context of post‐socialist transformations in the Czech Republic. It is argued that in post‐socialist countries, where patterns shaped in previous decades still apply and new patterns conditioned by the mechanisms of capitalist society are emerging, the current pattern of …
The micro-regional nature of functional urban areas (FUAs)
This article argues that any conceptualization and delimitation of functional urban areas must reflect their formation on the micro-scale and detect the smallest complete, complex, organic territorial units where the daily life of the population is organized. This is often neglected when a top-down approach is applied, leading to incomplete representations of reality that can misinform territorial policies. In presenting the analysis of the Czech…
Multiple Transformations
This paper develops a conceptual framework for interpreting the process of urban change in post-communist cities. The departure from the legacies of the communist past has been effected through multiple transformation dynamics of institutional, social and urban change. While institutional reforms have been largely accomplished, the adjustment of urban land use patterns to new societal conditions is still ongoing. Hence, post-communist cities are …
Discursive Framings of Low Carbon Urban Transitions
The discursive and representational aspects of the multiple political, economic and cultural challenges associated with low carbon urban transitions remain insufficiently explored in the academic literature. This is particularly true in the post-communist states of eastern and central Europe, which have been undergoing an additional transition of their own—from a centrally planned to a market-based economy. This paper, therefore, explores the man…
Cities Under Postsocialism
Locked-in post-socialism
This paper uses the experience of post-socialist district heating reforms to tell a broader story about the continued and shared challenges that central and eastern European cities face as they grapple with the legacies of the recent and more distant past. We argue that the restructuring of this infrastructural domain has been contingent upon geographically embedded trajectories stemming from previous historical periods, while leading to the crea…
Living Together in an Urban Neighbourhood
This article contributes to the discussion of everyday interactions between a settled majority population and new immigrants in an urban neighbourhood with recent experience of immigration. It analyses daily interactions between the majority population and Vietnamese immigrants in one Prague neighbourhood in an effort to identify both tensions and conflicts and conviviality in everyday life, while distinguishing between the stereotypes prevalent …
Territorial Arrangements of Small and Medium‐Sized Towns from a Functional‐Spatial Perspective
This contribution applies a functional‐spatial perspective to the study of small and medium‐sized towns. A methodology for functional analysis is developed and tested to identify towns, distinguish towns from cities, and detect town positionality within urban territorial arrangements, focusing on whether they are autonomous, networked with other towns or agglomerated with large cities. The methodology is used to compare settlement systems in two …
The Performativity of Metropolization
This article identifies a set of practices through which multiple actors, from the European Commission to local governments, perform the concept of the metropolitan region. It specifically investigates the practices and actions which brought this concept into being in the Prague metropolitan region of Czechia. We uncover how the meanings associated with the concept of the metropolitan region evolved through material‐discursive practices constitut…
Questioning post-socialism in urban studies? Don’t shoot ourselves in the foot
Urbanization and City Planning (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Geography (13 works) · Economic geography (12 works) · Economics (7 works) · Economy (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works)