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This chapter focuses on the development of some selected cities in the Czech Republic during the last 40 years. This time period has two halves. The first one is before 1990 when the country was part of Czechoslovakia, one of the communist countries; the second period covers a democratic regime after 1990. Land use development of dozens of cities was analyzed on the base of basic land use classes. These classes allow in an objective way to compare all the cities. The development is shown through values of 14 attributes for cities grouped into 3 categories – big, medium and small cities. Spatial values show land use development as total areas of land use classes and as ratios of the number of inhabitants and land use areas. All the values are also related to road traffic intensity, as one of the most important indicators of the development of society in the last 40 years. Time development of the values of the indicators, multiple linear regression and correlation for both periods were used to show their dependency on road traffic intensity. The main conclusion from this analysis is that the political change followed by economical change had a strong impact on some of the land use class changes and road traffic intensity.
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The chapter presents results of the COST project with support of The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports: Modelling of urban areas to lower the negative influences of human activities (OC10011)
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Halounová, L., Holubec, V. (2015). Influence of Political Regime Change to Land Use Development in Urban Areas in the Czech Republic. In: Li, J., Yang, X. (eds) Monitoring and Modeling of Global Changes: A Geomatics Perspective. Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9813-6_5
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