B3 Temporality of Urban Space
Lucie Pospíšilová & Petra Špačková
Tuesday, April 11 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Daily mobility and variations of population within the city are of growing interest in urban studies. By adding the temporal dimension to the evaluation of a rather static socio-spatial patterns of residential population, this approach enhances our understanding of cities as dynamic and constantly changing. The lecture is focused on temporality of urban space from two mutually constituted perspectives: perspective of urban localities and perspective of urban inhabitants. It is divided into three interconnected parts. At the beginning, we briefly discuss theoretical concepts related to spatiotemporal aspects of the city: urban rhythms and pacemakers, chronotope, everyday life contexts and spatiotemporal constraints. Afterwards we move to the specific area of Prague metropolitan region and focus on particular empirical results assessing and explaining: (1) general pattern of spatio-temporal differentiation of Prague metropolitan region (2) impact of suburbanization (the main process influencing Prague metropolitan region in post-socialist period) on spatio-temporal differentiation of Prague metropolitan region and (3) problems of everyday lives of suburban inhabitants in the context of post-socialist Czechia. The lecture contains two interactive activities which enables students to build new knowledge based on their own experience.
Readings:
Time use, Gender and Life Course: Evidence from post-socialist Czechia