Analysis of Regulation of Residential Suburbanisation in Hinterland of Post-socialist ‘One Hundred Thousands’ City of České Budějovice

Abstract

Residential suburbanisation is currently the most important urbanisation process transforming metropolitan areas in European post-socialist countries, especially in Central Europe and at Baltic states. The paper compares the statements of the mayors of the suburban municipalities situated in the hinterland of the city of České Budějovice (a one-hundred-thousand city in the South-West of the Czech Republic) and also the local building officials, spatial planning ofcials and experts regarding the recent, currently on-going and upcoming construction of houses in the suburbs and the regulation of these constructions. Further, it discusses the possibilities of influencing the construction of the houses through the spatial plans of municipalities, settlement zones, and metropolitan areas. The interviewed mayors consider, rather uncritically, the recent large construction of houses in their suburbs in general as appropriate. One third of the mayors, however, do not want any further suburban development of this kind. Spatial planning officials and building officials do not have sufficiently powerful tools to influence the extent of the construction and the designs of houses in the individual suburban municipalities and their suburbs. Some of them, together with the experts, support the reintroduction of the metropolitan area spatial plan.

Urbanization processes related to the development of residential functions in gminas adjacent to the city of Olsztyn

“…The results of this study corroborate previous findings reported for other post-communist cities in Central and Eastern Europe such as Tallinn (Tammaru et al, 2009), České Budějovice (Kubeš, 2015), Riga (Krišjāne et al, 2012), Vilnius (Burneika, Ubarevičienė, 2011) and Brno (Sýkora, Ouřed-níček, 2007 …”

Impact of Suburbanisation on Sustainable Development of Settlements in Suburban Spaces: Smart and New Solutions

“…Another solution in the development of suburban communities is to create a green belt that will activate a new element in the suburban landscape and fulfil an environmental and socio-economic function in the ecosystem of local services, such as mobility, water supply, recreation and culture [108]. On the other hand, in many countries, there is no wider territorial regional planning, but Kubeš [109] considers the lack of metropolitan planning for more local and regional authorities to be explicitly inappropriate and impractical. Individual municipalities should pay attention not only to monitoring the impact of the suburbanisation process on the municipality and its functioning [13], but also to creating regulations that will guide development [13,73].…”

Suburbs around the Czech provincial city of České Budějovice – territorial arrangement and problems

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