New Industrial Spaces in Old Industrial Centres: Selected Examples of Sosnowiec (Poland) and České Budějovice (Czech Republic)

Authors

  • Dagmar Popjaková University of South Bohemia Faculty of Education – Departement of Geography
  • Maria Tkocz University of Silesia Department of Economic Geography
  • Michal Vančura University of South Bohemia Faculty of Education – Departement of Geography

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.25.12

Keywords:

brownfields, foreign investment, greenfields, industrial transition, old industrial centres

Abstract

As industrial centres, the Polish city of Sosnowiec and the Czech city of České Budějovice developed differently. Sosnowiec was a part of the Upper-Silesian coal region, one of the most important old industrial regions on the European scale. However, until the 1980s, the city had developed not only as a centre of coal extraction and iron metallurgy, but unlike other Upper-Silesian industrial cities, also as a centre with diversified sectoral structure of industry. On the other hand, České Budějovice evolved as a peripheral centre in the southern part of the Czech Republic, i.e. in the region located outside the main industrialized spaces in the country. České Budějovice and the surroundings did not possess, apart from graphites and water, sufficient reserves of minerals. For this reason, since the beginning of industrial development it has been the light (consumer) industry that has played the major role, and in particular the production of beer and stationery. Industrial development of the cities has also differed during the last 20 years. In Sosnowiec, an important part in the regeneration of old industrial areas has been played by the city and European funds. At the same time, all the main old industrial areas maintained their production functions. In České Budějovice on the other hand, it has been the German and Austrian capital. Several industrial areas have altered their former production function into non-production functions.

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Author Biographies

Dagmar Popjaková, University of South Bohemia Faculty of Education – Departement of Geography

Dagmar Popjaková, doc. RNDr. Ph.D., University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. A Slovak geograph now living in the Czech Republic, studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Comenius University in Bratislava. In years 1992–2001 she was active at the Department of Geography of Prešov University, where she centered research around the industrial transformation processes after the fall of the socialist political and economic system in Czechoslovakia at the end of 1989. Between years 2005–2007 she worked in her alma mater in Bratislava and studied questions of internal and external population migration. Currently she works in České Budějovice. Her research mainly concentrates on the study of population and industrial structures of the southern regions of the Czech Republic.

Maria Tkocz, University of Silesia Department of Economic Geography

Maria Tkocz, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences in the field of geography, Associate Professorat the University of Silesia, Head of the Department of Spatial Planning. She specializes in economic geography, especially industrial, city, tourism, and spatial planning. She is the author of over 100 publications, including four monographs.

Michal Vančura, University of South Bohemia Faculty of Education – Departement of Geography

Michal Vančura, Mgr. Ph.D., University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. After his studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Masaryk University in Brno, he started working at the Department of Geography of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice in 1997. Since 2010, he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Education. His research focuses on the industry transformation processes, in particular on the problems of the role of foreign investments in industry.

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2014-01-16

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Popjaková, D., Tkocz, M., & Vančura, M. (2014). New Industrial Spaces in Old Industrial Centres: Selected Examples of Sosnowiec (Poland) and České Budějovice (Czech Republic). Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society, 25, 212–229. https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.25.12

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