Approaches to sub-regionalization of territory: empirical study
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2013-08
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Technická Univerzita v Liberci
Technical university of Liberec, Czech Republic
Technical university of Liberec, Czech Republic
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The article deals with the delimitation of sub-regional territorial units that can be categorized as functional regions. Sub-regions can be considered as small regional units, within which the inhabitants commute for basic services, especially to primary schools, basic health services and post office. Territorial conceptual units are a specific case of sub-regions that are used by the Liberec Region in the evaluation and the support of economically weak areas. These units are based on the administrative districts of registry, building and other offices, and on commuting to work. Delimiting sub-regions can be used for an assessment of regional disparities, since these regions are on the one hand compact enough as compared with the individual communities, but on the other hand they are not too large (as compared with administrative districts of municipalities with extended powers). In delimiting sub-regions, commuting to nodal centers, number of inhabitants and basic services play a major role. For a comprehensive assessment of regional disparities, the article also proposes a hierarchical classification of higher regional level (the micro-regional significance centers, regional importance and major regional centers). To determine these further levels, there was also investigated the occurrence of major employers and institutions of a secondary and a university education. The application and verification of the proposed methodological approach was carried out on the example of the Liberec Region.
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sub-region, nodal region, territorial conceptual unit, typology, regional disparity
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978-80-7372-953-0