PřF:Z0096 Social geogr. regionalisation - Course Information
Z0096 Social geographical regionalisation
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2000
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/1/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Stanislav Řehák, CSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D. - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- Z0153 Methods, human geography || Z4080 || Z4090
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Geography and Cartography (programme PřF, M-GR, specialization Socio-Economic Geography)
- Geography and Cartography (programme PřF, N-GR, specialization Socio-Economic Geography)
- Course objectives
- Approaches to geographical regionalization. Prague Albertov School. Conceptions of a region in Human Geography. Spatial concentration of population: methods of evaluation, hierarchical differentiation, development, spatial variability. Development of the hierarchical structure of settlement system. Rank-size-rule. Hierarchy of human needs and hierarchy of regional processes. Sources of data and general methods of regionalization. Comlex and particular (sectional) regions. Administrative-territorial division. Variables describing regional structure. Regional organization of the Czech Republic. New administrative division (regions). Contemporary development trends. Integrated settlement systems. Metropolization.
- Syllabus
- Spatial science and its place in the development of geographical thought. Theoretical basis (and assumptions) of regionalization in human geography. Classification of real systems and classification of sciences. The question of repeatability of elementary phenomena and complex (geographical) phenomena. Basic conceptions of a region. Spatial concentration of natural and social phenomena, and its hierarchical differentiation. Methods of measuring of spatial concentration. Development of spatial concentration of population in the Czech Lands, and hierarchical differentiation and spatial variability of the concentration process. Urbanization and development of the hierarchy of centres. Methods of assessing of the process of hierarchization (rank size rule, size of towns structuration index, etc.). Functional differentiation of the concentration process. Functional specialization of centres. Hierarchy of regional processes and the hierarchy of centres (in the Czech Republic) General principles of regionalization, method of defining of functional (nodal) regions. Selection of centres, the question of the minimal size of a region. Method of defining of commuting-to-work regions. Gravity models (Reilly, Huff, etc.) and their application to defining commuting-to-services region. Defining of a complex region. Regional structure evaluation indicators. Description of the contemporary regional structure of the Czech Republic. Development of the regional organization: general features a current trends. Metropolization and the integrated systems of centres. Methods of regionalization at the sub-regional level. Relationship between the functional regionalization and the territorial division for the public administration purposes. Development of the territorial division of the Czech Republic in 19th and 20th centuries.
- Literature
- HAMPL, Martin. Realita, společnost a geografická organizace :hledání integrálního řádu. 1. vyd. Praha: DemoArt, 1998, 110 s. ISBN 80-902154-7-5. info
- HAMPL, Martin. Geografická organizace společnosti a transformační procesy v České republice. 1. vyd. Praha: DemoArt, 1996, 395 s., 1. ISBN 80-902154-2-4. info
- HAMPL, Martin, Václav GARDAVSKÝ and Karel KÜHNL. Regionální struktura a vývoj systému osídlení ČSR. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1987, 255 s. URL info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2000, recent)
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