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Mr. Luděk Krtička
Department of Human Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava

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Journal article
Published: 01 July 2021 in Land
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We aimed to explain the spatial distribution of information and communication technology (ICT) firms in the city of Ostrava as an example of a medium-sized, shrinking, polycentric industrial city. The primary research question was to what extent micro-geographic location factors affect the current spatial clustering of ICT firms in polycentric cities characteristic by relatively weak urbanization economies and mostly routine character of ICT activities. We analyse and test the effects of the urban form at the level of urban blocks and individual buildings (considering their height, technical condition, age and dominant function) on the clustering of ICT firms of various sizes and ownership statuses. The inquiry was based on a detailed field mapping (using ArcGIS Collector) of ICT firms and physical/functional characteristics of the buildings and their immediate surroundings. ICT firms are significantly spatially concentrated in the historic city centre and inner city. Spatial patterns of ICT firms focused on less knowledge-intensive, routine and/or lower value-added functions do not differ fundamentally from innovative firms developing new products. Preference of denser, walkable, mixed-use neighbourhoods in urban cores/inner cities can be found in the group of firms focusing on routine functions: rather for larger than for smaller firms and domestic than foreign-owned firms.

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Jan Ženka; Luděk Krtička; Lenka Paszová; Tereza Pundová; Kateřina Rudincová; Simona Šťastná; Veronika Svetlíková; Jan Matula. Micro-Geographies of Information and Communication Technology Firms in a Shrinking Medium-Sized Industrial City of Ostrava (Czechia). Land 2021, 10, 695 .

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Jan Ženka, Luděk Krtička, Lenka Paszová, Tereza Pundová, Kateřina Rudincová, Simona Šťastná, Veronika Svetlíková, Jan Matula. Micro-Geographies of Information and Communication Technology Firms in a Shrinking Medium-Sized Industrial City of Ostrava (Czechia). Land. 2021; 10 (7):695.

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Jan Ženka; Luděk Krtička; Lenka Paszová; Tereza Pundová; Kateřina Rudincová; Simona Šťastná; Veronika Svetlíková; Jan Matula. 2021. "Micro-Geographies of Information and Communication Technology Firms in a Shrinking Medium-Sized Industrial City of Ostrava (Czechia)." Land 10, no. 7: 695.

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Published: 03 June 2020 in Cities
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One of the governance responses to urban shrinkage and the accompanying problems of city centre decline is mega-retail-led regeneration. It is a common regeneration tool that can, on one hand, create a popular shopping centre, but on the other hand, produce negative impacts on the city centre structures. Eventually, it can produce effects similar to urban shrinkage itself, the consequences of which should be reversed. This paper examines at the micro-spatial level the changing nature of selected services in the centre of the shrinking city of Ostrava, focusing primarily on analysing, identifying, and assessing the impacts of mega-retail-led regeneration represented by the development of the New Karolina shopping centre built within the historical city centre. Additionally, this text extends evidence of the impacts of such regeneration schemes and discusses their suitability in the case of shrinking cities.

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Ondřej Slach; Alexandr Nováček; Vojtěch Bosák; Luděk Krtička. Mega-retail-led regeneration in the shrinking city: Panacea or placebo? Cities 2020, 104, 102799 .

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Ondřej Slach, Alexandr Nováček, Vojtěch Bosák, Luděk Krtička. Mega-retail-led regeneration in the shrinking city: Panacea or placebo? Cities. 2020; 104 ():102799.

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Ondřej Slach; Alexandr Nováček; Vojtěch Bosák; Luděk Krtička. 2020. "Mega-retail-led regeneration in the shrinking city: Panacea or placebo?" Cities 104, no. : 102799.

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Published: 01 August 2019 in Sustainability
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Urban shrinkage has become a common pathway (not only) in post-socialist cities, which represents new challenges for traditionally growth-oriented spatial planning. Though in the post-socialist area, the situation is even worse due to prevailing weak planning culture and resulting uncoordinated development. The case of the city of Ostrava illustrates how the problem of (in)efficient infrastructure operation, and maintenance, in already fragmented urban structure is exacerbated by the growing size of urban area (through low-intensity land-use) in combination with declining size of population (due to high rate of outmigration). Shrinkage, however, is, on the intra-urban level, spatially differentiated. Population, paradoxically, most intensively declines in the least financially demanding land-uses and grows in the most expensive land-uses for public administration. As population and urban structure development prove to have strong inertia, this land-use development constitutes a great challenge for a city’s future sustainability. The main objective of the paper is to explore the nexus between change in population density patterns in relation to urban shrinkage, and sustainability of public finance.

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Ondřej Slach; Vojtěch Bosák; Luděk Krtička; Alexandr Nováček; Petr Rumpel. Urban Shrinkage and Sustainability: Assessing the Nexus between Population Density, Urban Structures and Urban Sustainability. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4142 .

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Ondřej Slach, Vojtěch Bosák, Luděk Krtička, Alexandr Nováček, Petr Rumpel. Urban Shrinkage and Sustainability: Assessing the Nexus between Population Density, Urban Structures and Urban Sustainability. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (15):4142.

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Ondřej Slach; Vojtěch Bosák; Luděk Krtička; Alexandr Nováček; Petr Rumpel. 2019. "Urban Shrinkage and Sustainability: Assessing the Nexus between Population Density, Urban Structures and Urban Sustainability." Sustainability 11, no. 15: 4142.

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Published: 17 July 2019 in European Planning Studies
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Vojtěch Bosák; Ondřej Slach; Alexandr Nováček; Luděk Krtička. Temporary use and brownfield regeneration in post-socialist context: from bottom-up governance to artists exploitation. European Planning Studies 2019, 28, 604 -626.

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Vojtěch Bosák, Ondřej Slach, Alexandr Nováček, Luděk Krtička. Temporary use and brownfield regeneration in post-socialist context: from bottom-up governance to artists exploitation. European Planning Studies. 2019; 28 (3):604-626.

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Vojtěch Bosák; Ondřej Slach; Alexandr Nováček; Luděk Krtička. 2019. "Temporary use and brownfield regeneration in post-socialist context: from bottom-up governance to artists exploitation." European Planning Studies 28, no. 3: 604-626.

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Published: 01 January 2019 in Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft
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Přemysl Mácha; Horst Lassak; Luděk Krtička. City Divided: Place Names and Nationalism in the Czech-Polish Borderlands. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft 2019, 1, 303 -329.

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Přemysl Mácha, Horst Lassak, Luděk Krtička. City Divided: Place Names and Nationalism in the Czech-Polish Borderlands. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. 2019; 1 ():303-329.

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Přemysl Mácha; Horst Lassak; Luděk Krtička. 2019. "City Divided: Place Names and Nationalism in the Czech-Polish Borderlands." Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft 1, no. : 303-329.

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Published: 13 June 2018 in Journal of Mountain Science
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This paper presents the changes of landscape structure in the Demänovská Valley which ranks among the most valuable protected areas of Slovakia. The area was selected on the basis of changes associated with the rapidly growing tourism industry and the rise of an important destination in the center of Low Tatras National Park, Slovakia. To document any changes, we visually interpreted data from aerial and satellite images in three periods (1949, 2007 and 2013) and for predicting future changes we used land use planning documentation. Interpreted data were analyzed using overlay analysis and landscape metrics. Results showed extensive changes in the landscape structure mainly connected with the development of tourism infrastructure. We also identified long-term changes whose causes stem from the transformation of society and forest management in the past. The dynamics and extent of these changes may increase in the future. We propose to stop future development of ski slopes and expansion of related infrastructure, to focus on sustainability and environmentally friendly operation of the existing ski resort and to invest a substantial portion of profits to support projects aimed to preserve surrounding lands and wildlife.

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Luděk Krtička; Ivana Tomčíková; Iveta Rakytová. Development versus conservation: evaluation of landscape structure changes in Demänovská Valley, Slovakia. Journal of Mountain Science 2018, 15, 1153 -1170.

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Luděk Krtička, Ivana Tomčíková, Iveta Rakytová. Development versus conservation: evaluation of landscape structure changes in Demänovská Valley, Slovakia. Journal of Mountain Science. 2018; 15 (6):1153-1170.

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Luděk Krtička; Ivana Tomčíková; Iveta Rakytová. 2018. "Development versus conservation: evaluation of landscape structure changes in Demänovská Valley, Slovakia." Journal of Mountain Science 15, no. 6: 1153-1170.

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Published: 01 June 2016 in Applied Geography
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In this paper we aimed to explain differences in agricultural labour productivity at microregional level. We tested the effects of three major independent variables – farmland fragmentation, urbanization economies and farm size structure with particular emphasis on the relationship between land-use fragmentation and microregional differences in agricultural labour productivity. Our principal question therefore was if higher agricultural labour productivity at microregional level is associated with internal scale economies resulting from large average farm size (in terms of employment), proximity to large cities as a proxy for urbanization economies and lower levels of land-use fragmentation. We also asked if productivity gains from large average size of plots is higher than potential losses resulting from land tenure (tenants are generally less productive than farmland owners). Drawing on a case study of Czechia – a country with extremely fragmented farmland ownership, but the largest average size of plots in the EU and a strong role of farmland rental market – we confirmed our initial expectation that land-use fragmentation affects negatively microregional agricultural labour productivity. Larger average size of plots is positively related to microregional agricultural labour productivity despite potentially negative effects of land tenure. At the same time, no significant effects of urbanization economies and farm size structure were documented.

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Jan Ženka; Ondřej Slach; Luděk Krtička; Petr Žufan. Determinants of microregional agricultural labour productivity – Evidence from Czechia. Applied Geography 2016, 71, 83 -94.

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Jan Ženka, Ondřej Slach, Luděk Krtička, Petr Žufan. Determinants of microregional agricultural labour productivity – Evidence from Czechia. Applied Geography. 2016; 71 ():83-94.

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Jan Ženka; Ondřej Slach; Luděk Krtička; Petr Žufan. 2016. "Determinants of microregional agricultural labour productivity – Evidence from Czechia." Applied Geography 71, no. : 83-94.

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Published: 01 December 2015 in Moravian Geographical Reports
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Drawing on empirical evidence from the Czech Republic, differences in agricultural labour productivity at the micro-regional level are examined. The role of geographical factors: natural conditions, landscape fragmentation, localisation and urbanization economies, are discussed. In addition, we also test the effects of farm size structure to capture the results of internal scale economies. The key importance of natural conditions is confirmed: they were significantly more important than farm characteristics such as size structure, ownership status and mode of production. Regional agricultural labour productivity was positively influenced by the nominal price of agricultural land and population density. Surprisingly, micro-regions dominated by large farms performed at lower productivity levels than micro-regions with fragmented farm size structure in the Czech Republic.

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Jan Ženka; Petr Žufan; Luděk Krtička; Ondřej Slach. Labour productivity of agricultural business companies and cooperatives in the Czech Republic: A micro-regional level analysis. Moravian Geographical Reports 2015, 23, 14 -25.

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Jan Ženka, Petr Žufan, Luděk Krtička, Ondřej Slach. Labour productivity of agricultural business companies and cooperatives in the Czech Republic: A micro-regional level analysis. Moravian Geographical Reports. 2015; 23 (4):14-25.

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Jan Ženka; Petr Žufan; Luděk Krtička; Ondřej Slach. 2015. "Labour productivity of agricultural business companies and cooperatives in the Czech Republic: A micro-regional level analysis." Moravian Geographical Reports 23, no. 4: 14-25.

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Published: 01 December 2014 in Environmental & Socio-economic Studies
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The article deals with the recent positive changes in the industrial landscape of the Karviná region in a broader context. The Karviná region has been the most important part of the coal-bearing Ostrava-Karviná District. Since the industrial revolution, the position of the primary mining area has brought a dynamic economic development and a great concentration of population into the fast-growing conurbation cities, particularly between 1950s and 1980s. However, the dominant coal mining and processing has had a negative impact on the environment, the character and utilization of the landscape. Many environmental, socioeconomic and other problems did not become fully evident until the social changes at the turn of 1980s and 1990s. At present, a great attention is being paid to the reclamation of the affected landscape. As a result, the region is starting to change its unflattering image of an industrial and problematic area devastated by coal extraction for the better after many years. The various forms of land reclamation, modification of water bodies, construction of new sports and recreational facilities and so on are bringing a gradual improvement of the environment in the region, creating a new cultivated landscape that can be used, among other things, for various forms of tourism and relaxation.

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Jan Havrlant; Luděk Krtička. Reclamation of devastated landscape in the Karviná region (Czech Republic). Environmental & Socio-economic Studies 2014, 2, 1 -12.

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Jan Havrlant, Luděk Krtička. Reclamation of devastated landscape in the Karviná region (Czech Republic). Environmental & Socio-economic Studies. 2014; 2 (4):1-12.

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Jan Havrlant; Luděk Krtička. 2014. "Reclamation of devastated landscape in the Karviná region (Czech Republic)." Environmental & Socio-economic Studies 2, no. 4: 1-12.