A city in motion: Time-space activity and mobility patterns of suburban inhabitants and the structuration of the spatial organization of the Prague metropolitan area

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-168

  Novák, Jakub ^a   Sýkora, Luděk ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Activity and mobility patterns; Postcommunist city; Structuration; Suburbanization; Time geography; Time space; Urban and metropolitan change

Indexed keywords

JOB SEARCH; METROPOLITAN AREA; MOBILITY; POST-COMMUNISM; QUALITY OF LIFE; SERVICE PROVISION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN SOCIETY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; PRAGUE;

EID: 34249861198     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0467.2007.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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