POPULATION GROWTH IN THE HINTERLAND REGIONAL CITIES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN 2001-2011

The subject of this thesis is research of the current suburban area of all the the regional capitals in the Czech Republic in between 2001 and 2011. The work focuses on comparing of development of population in small towns and villages, which are located in proximity of the the regional cities of Czech Republic. The main method of the work is a comparison of a time series. The results are portrayed as comparative cartograms of 13 regional centres. These towns show suburbanisation tendencies at different points of time; Prague is the first, followed by Brno, Plzen, and Ceske Budejovice from the group of smaller regional centres. On the other hand, for some centres such as Ostrava these tendencies were not statistically proven by the method of research which was used. In other cases, it was not possible to find the nucleus of suburbanisation or to identify it with the regional centre. This was the case for the regions of Usti nad Labem or Karlovy Vary.