Publication details
Kompaktní formy, centralita osídlení a mobilita jako témata pro plánování funkčních městských regionů: případová studie Brněnské metropolitní oblasti
| Title in English | Compact Forms, Settlement Centrality and Mobility as Themes for Planning Functional Urban Areas. A Case Study of the Brno Metropolitan Area |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Urbanismus a územní rozvoj |
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| Web | https://www.uur.cz/casopis-uaur/cisla-casopisu-journal-issues/2023/62023/ |
| Keywords | compactness; centrality; functional urban area; work mobility; spatial planning |
| Description | Functional urban areas have long been a subject of consideration for integrated strategic and spatial planning. At the same time, the regional scale of functionally closed territorial units becomes part of the imagination of compact forms and centrality of space. The article explores the meanings of compactness and centrality in urban environment and the metropolitan area as a whole. Using data on labour mobility and functional territory use, the specifics of settlement structures of different scales are demonstrated in the example of the Brno metropolitan area. The results show the spatial variability of the relationship between urbanistically approached static compactness and functionally viewed population dynamics (mobility). While the accessibility of central (urban) functions is related to shorter walking or cycling routes for personal mobility mainly in the historically established city centre, (however not in all other secondary urban centres), short routes are being replaced by public transport, largely by train transport, as the scale shifts to the metropolitan level. However, it turns out that the deconcentration of the population into the wider metropolitan area does not imply a relative increase in the share of train travel, as even in population-gaining municipalities connected directly to rail infrastructure, the importance of the car as a means of regular commuting has been increasing. The findings can serve both to set the basis for mobility planning and to rethink the planning concepts of the short-distance city and the fifteen-minute city. |