VÝVOJOVÉ TRENDY KOMERČNEJ SUBURBANIZÁCIE V MESTSKEJ ČASTI NITRA-HORNÉ KRŠKANY V ROKOCH 1998 AŽ 2017
DEVELOPMENT TRENDS OF COMMERCIAL SUBURBANIZATION IN THE NITRA-HORNÉ KRŠKANY CITY DISTRICT FROM 1998 TO 2017

Author(s): MILAN MIDLER, Alena Dubcova
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Rural and urban sociology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: suburbanization types; commercial suburbanization; small and medium-sized entrepreneurship; commercial areals; Nitra city; Slovakia;
Summary/Abstract: Suburbanization is one of the most important transformational processes within the inner urban structures. Since 1989, they have been presented through economic changes in the Nitra city. They were reflected not only in the transformation of functional land-use, but also in the way of life of residents. Suitable business conditions in Slovakia became significant and initial factors in the development of processes of commercial suburbanization, which is clearly visible in the Horné Krškany city district in Nitra. Commercial suburbanization requires sufficient amount of free areas as well as good transport accessibility. The aim of the paper is to capture and evaluate development trends of commercial suburbanization in the Horné Krškany city district in Nitra. Within the paper, there were applied standard geographical methods – method of analysis and synthesis, comparative method along with cartographic, graphic, mathematical and statistical methods that were complemented by the field survey. The extent of commercial suburbanization was recorded also by comparison of aerial photos from 1991 and 2016. In the target city district, there were recorded increase of commercial entities from 10 to 97 between 1998 and 2017, while the zone of commercial areas rose from 28.63 ha in 1998 just to 37.79 ha in 2017.

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