Publication details
Hybné síly dlouhodobých proměn industrializované krajiny
| Title in English | Driving forces of long-term changes of industrialized landscape (case study of Hrušov) |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Acta Pruhoniciana |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Earth magnetism, geography |
| Keywords | Hrušov; Ostrava; industrial landscape; deindustrialisation; land use; brownfields |
| Description | In this contribution long-term landscape development and its spatial use and forming is followed on the example of cadastral area Hrušov (part of Slezská Ostrava city district in the city of Ostrava in the Czech Republic). Spatial landscape development of Hrušov has been observed since the beginning of Industrial Revolution in the fi rst half of the 19th century, over dynamic and even precipitous industrialisation during the second half of the 20th century, to nowadays process of deindustrialisation and occurrence of abandoned and neglected areas so called brownfi elds. Th is development is followed by use of historical and contemporary topographical maps, by use and analyses of historical and contemporary aerial pictures and completed by analyses of land use statistics from land registers. Emphasis is stressed on seeking of coherences of main driving socio-economic forces, factors and analyses of its refl ections in landscape. |