Geografie 2002, 107, 171-188
Development of the settlement system in the Ostrava agglomeration and possibilities of its restructuring
Large-scale coal-mining regions were showing specific settlement from the 19th century. The original typical system with towns as centres and their hinterlands was remodelled to a mosaic of coal pits, miner colonies (later housing quarters) and industrial factories interwoven with a dense web of infrastructure. The region of Ostrava is one of examples; here the mining of black coal linked up with the metallurgy of iron, heavy engineering and chemical industry. The region's economic base has experienced a restructuring in connexion with social changes after the year 1989 with individual towns seeking new functions and place in the system of settlement.
Keywords
settlement system, Ostrava agglomeration (Czechia), coal mining and metallurgy restructuring.
Funding
The work is a partial output of research implemented within a grant project No. S-3086005 funded by the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic with the name "Effect of suppressed deep coal-mining on phenomena in lithosphere and environment", which at the same time links up with the key project of scholarly research No. K-3046108 solved in the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic with the name "Impact of climatic and anthropogenic factors on live and lifeless environments".
