Transformation and recycling of urban spaces
Research activities in this thematic area focus on the continuing changes in the socio-spatial aspects and
positive and negative impacts of the transformation of urban spaces in regions of different types, including the phenomena of re-urbanization,
urban space recycling and brownfields regeneration, the new patterns of space-time behaviour, spatial mobility, and accessibility problems.
PROJECTS
Innovative methods of material diagnostics and monitoring of engineering infrastructure to increase its endurance and durability (INODIN); OPJAK, EH23_020/0008487, 2025—2028
European Citizen Science; Horizon, 101058509, 2022—2026
Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience (Shift); COST Action CA21166, 2022—2026
Urban space renewal as a path to socially just mobilities? A multi-scalar approach; Czech Science Foundation, 25-18063S, 2025—2027
Compact and polycentric urban forms: Conflicting spatial imaginations?; Czech Science Foundation, GA20-13713S, 2020—2022
Strategic tools for building a barrier-free city; TACR, TL01000013, 2018—2021
Geography of recycling urban space; Czech Science Foundation, 17-26934S, 2017—2019
Integrated Spatial Planning, Land Use and Soil Management Research Action (INSPIRATION); Horizon 2020,
642372, 2015—2018
New methods for improving brownfields regeneration to optimize decision-making processes; TACR, 2014—2015
TIMBRE - Tailored Improvement of Brownfield Regeneration in Europe; European Commission's 7th Framework Programme,
FP7-ENV-2010.3.1.5-2, 2011—2014
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Vaishar, A., Šťastná, M., Zapletalová, J. (2025): From industry to cultural tourism: Structural transformation of the second-order city. Case Brno. Cities,
158, 105685. Doi:
10.1016/j.cities.2024.105685 (IF 2023 = 6.0; Q1/AIS)
- Malý, J., Lichter, M., Krejčí, T. (2024): The elusive role of urban form, centrality and scale in the absence of a metropolitan planning agenda:
Central European perspective. Growth and Change, 55(1), e12699. Doi:
10.1111/grow.12699 (IF 2023 = 2.9; Q3/AIS)
- Osman, R., Klusáček, P., Malý J., Alexandrescu F. (2023): Rhythmanalysis and reproduction of space in a brownfield regeneration process: the case of Ústí nad
Orlicí, Czech Republic. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 64(6), 705—731. Doi:
10.1080/15387216.2022.2057348 (IF 2023 = 1.7; Q1/AIS)
- Malý, J., Alexandrescu, F., Osman, R., Klusáček, P. (2023): Rebuilding a community ‘centre’ under free-market pressure: the post-socialist
experience with local brownfield management. Territory, Politics, Governance, 11(7), 1344—1364. Doi: 10.1080/21622671.2021.1916580 (IF 2023 = 1.9; Q1/AIS)
- Malý J., Krejčí, T. (2022): Polycentricity of daily urban systems: A misconceived concept and buzzword in ‘metropolitan’ planning practice. European Urban
and Regional Studies, 29(4), 515—532. Doi: 10.1177/09697764221103022 (IF 2022 = 3.1; Q2/AIS)
- Malý, J., Dvořák, P., Šuška, P. (2020): Multiple transformations of post-socialist cities: Multiple outcomes? Cities, 107, 102901. Doi:
10.1016/j.cities.2020.102901 (IF 2020 = 5.835; Q2/AIS)
- Alexandrescu, F., Osman, R., Klusáček, P., Malý, J. (2020): Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative industries in the case
of Brno's former prison. Cities, 98, 102578. Doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2019.102578 (IF 2020 = 5.835; Q2/AIS)
- Klusáček, P., Alexandrescu, F., Osman, R., Malý, J., Kunc, J., Dvořák, P., Frantál, B., Havlíček, M., Krejčí, T., Martinát, S., Skokanová, H., Trojan, J. (2018):
Good governance as a strategic choice in brownfield regeneration: Regional dynamics from the Czech Republic. Land Use Policy, 73, 29—39.
Doi:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.01.007 (IF 2018 = 3.573; Q2/AIS)
- Limasset, E., Pizzol, L., Merly, C., Gatchett, A. M., Le Guern, C., Martinát., S., Klusáček, P., Bartke, S. (2018): Points of Attention in Designing Tools for
Regional Brownfield Prioritisation. Science of The Total Environment, 622—623, 997—1008. Doi:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.168 (IF 2018 = 5.589; Q1/AIS)
- Navrátil, J., Krejčí, T., Martinát., S., Pasqualetti, M. J., Klusáček, P., Frantál, B., Tocháčková K. (2018): Brownfields do not “only live twice”: The possibilities
for heritage preservation and the enlargement of leisure time activities in Brno, the Czech Republic. Cities, 74, 52—63. Doi:
10.1016/j.cities.2017.11.003 (IF 2018 = 3.853; Q2/AIS)
- Alexandrescu, F., Klusáček, P., Bartke, S., Osman, R., Frantál, B., Martinát, S., Kunc, J., Pizzol, L., Zabeo, A., Giubilato, E., Critto, A., Bleicher, A. (2017):
Actor networks and the construction of applicable knowledge: the case of the Timbre Brownfield Prioritization Tool. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 19,
1323—1334. Doi: 10.1007/s10098-016-1331-8
(IF 2017 = 2.343; Q3/AIS)
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