Thematic research group: Urban and Regional Laboratory
Thesis title: Dynamics of Inner-City Changes: Differentiation of Neighbourhood Changes in Prague Inner City and their Consequences for Long-Term Residents
Funding: Self, Charles University Grant Agency (GAUK)
Begun: October 2017
Link to relevant web pages: http://urrlab.cz/en/profile/jan-sykora
Current and recent research projects:
Research team leader: Mgr. Pavel Frydrych
Funder: START Programme (Grant schemes at Charles University)Research team leader: Doc. RNDr. Martin Ouředníček Ph.D.
Funder: Ministry of Culture Czech Republic
- History and future of housing estates: quality of residential environment and residential satisfaction (2020-2022)
Research team leader: RNDr. Petra Špačková, Ph.D.
Funded: Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GAČR)
- Differentiation of neighbourhood changes in Prague inner city and their consequences for long-term residents (2018-2020)
Research team leader: Mgr. Jan Sýkora
Funded: Charles University Grant Agency
Research team leader: Mgr. Marie Horňáková
Funded: Charles University Grant Agency
Qualifications:
- 10/2017 – present Ph.D. (Doctoral degree), Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University, Faculty of Science
- 09/2020 – 12/2020 Internship (Erasmus+ Programme), Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning
- 10/2014 – 09/2017 Mgr. (Master’s degree), Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University, Faculty of Science
- 01/2016 – 06/2016 Study abroad (Erasmus+ Programme), Urban Planning
- University of Tartu, Faculty of Science and Technology
- 10/2011 – 09/2014 Bc. (Bachelor’s degree), Geography and Cartography, Charles University, Faculty of Science
Awards and grants:
- Charles University Grant Agency (project: Differentiation of neighbourhood changes in Prague inner city and their consequences for long-term residents (2018-2020)
Research:
My PhD research aims to examine the complexity of post-socialist inner-city residential changes in the 21st century and their consequences for long-term residents. Firstly, it provides a systematic analysis of residential changes of the Prague inner-city neighbourhoods at various hierarchical levels, proposes a typology of neighbourhood trajectories and outlines the mechanisms leading to such changes. In this step, analysis of quantitative statistical data on population and housing stock is used. Secondly, the project analyses in detail the transformation of a selected neighbourhood including identification of causal mechanisms of identified changes. Mixed-methods approach is used combining additional quantitative data at micro-scale of individual census tracts with qualitative (semi-structured interviews with local stakeholders) data. Thirdly, the project deals with the subjective dimension of neighbourhood change. It analyses how long-term residents of a selected neighbourhood perceive the identified changes. Specifically, it examines how the changes affect residents` everyday life, their residential satisfaction, identity and belonging within the neighbourhood. This part mainly relies on qualitative methodology using semi-structured interviews with long-term inhabitants of a selected neighbourhood.
Publications:
- SÝKORA, J., ŠPAČKOVÁ, P. (2022): Neighbourhood at the crossroads: differentiation in residential change and gentrification in a post-socialist inner-city neighbourhood. Housing Studies, 37, 5, 693-719.
- SÝKORA, J., HORŇÁKOVÁ M., VISSER, K., BOLT, G. (2022): ‘It is natural’: sustained place attachment of long-term residents in a gentrifying Prague neighbourhood. Social & Cultural Geography, [online first].
- HORŇÁKOVÁ, M., SÝKORA, J. (2021): From suburbanization to reurbanization? Changing residential mobility flows of families with young children in the Prague Metropolitan Area. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 75, 4, 203-220.
- SÝKORA, J., ŠPAČKOVÁ, P. (2017): Kontrasty sociálních světů v dolních Holešovicích (Contrasts of Social Worlds in Lower Holešovice). In: Ouředníček, M., Jíchová, J. (eds.): Sociální prostředí Prahy: město na prahu 21. století. Academia, Praha, 92-119.
Conference contributions:
- September 2022 From childhood to old age: Life-course differences and similarities in the perception of residential environment
ENHR Conference: The struggle for the right to housing, Barcelona, Spain, with Marie Horňáková, Pavel Frydrych
- June 2022 Housing estates’ trajectories in post-socialist countries – similarities and differences of Estonian and Czech cities
CATference, Budapest, Hungary, with Petra Špačková, Ondřej Špaček, Kadi Kalm
- June 2022 ‘It is natural’ – Sustained place attachment of long-term residents in a gentrifying Prague neighbourhood
CATference, Budapest, Hungary, with Marie Horňáková, Kirsten Visser, Gideon Bolt
- May 2022 Trajektorie českých sídlišť z hlediska dlouhodobého populačního vývoje mezi lety 1970 a 2011
Město: Hranice představivosti, 8. brněnská konference urbánních studií, Brno, with Petra Špačková, Ondřej Špaček, Kadi Kalm
- September 2021 ‘It is natural’: life course as a key element of long-term residents’ place attachment in a gentrifying Prague neighbourhood
ENHR Conference: Unsettled Settlements: Housing in Unstable Contexts, online conference, with Marie Horňáková, Kirsten Visser, Gideon Bolt
- June 2021 Various housing estates’ trajectories in post-socialist cities: does the socialist legacy still matter?
Annual Conference of Czech Sociological Association Conference, online conference, with Petra Špačková, Kadi Kalm, Ondřej Špaček
- September 2019 Neighbourhood Change Dynamics of Prague Inner city
CATference 2019: 8th International Urban Geographies of Post-communist States Conference
- September 2019 Neighbourhood Change Dynamics of Prague Inner city
New Wave: International Student and Early Career Conference in Brno, with Marie Horňáková
- June 2019 Residential Mobility of Young Families in the Prague Metropolitan Region
ENHR Conference in Athens: Housing for the Next European Social Model, workshop: Metropolitan Dynamics: Urban Change, Markets and Governance, with Marie Horňáková
- October 2018 Residential Change and Gentrification in Post‑socialist Inner-city Neighbourhood
RSA Student and Early Career Conference in Brighton (UK): Strategies for Career Success: Networking, Publishing and Funding
- September 2018 Rezidenční proměny a gentrifikace ve čtvrti vnitřního města Prahy
Bratislava, SR; 17. kongres Slovenskej geografickej spoločnosti/24. sjezd České geografické společnosti: Geografia na vzostupe?
- June 2018 Differentiation of residential change and gentrification in Prague inner city neighbourhood
ENHR Conference in Uppsala: More together, more apart: Migration, densification, segregation. New Housing Research Colloquium
- November 2017 Rezidenční transformace a gentrifikace dolních Holešovic
(Ne)viditelná města: 6. brněnská konference urbánních studií aneb „Město v Brně po 10 letech“, Brno
Teaching:
- 2019, 2020 Methods in Social Geography I
- 2018 Bachelor thesis supervisor
External activities
Member of Czech Geographical Socie