Differentiation of commercial suburbanization in Plzeň and Olomouc metropolitan areas

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the development of commercial suburbanization in Pilsen and Olomouc metropolitan areas between 1990 and 2018. The research of differentiation of commercial suburbanization was based on spatial data analysis, obtained from Corine Land Cover database, data from the Urban Atlas database was added in the time period 2006 - 2012. Change areas were extracted from databases within the areas of interest. Spatial data containing information about the area extent and period of origin, they were subsequently supplemented with the type of functional use (land-use). The comparison of metropolitan areas was based on the results of the analysis. The analysis showed that the main difference within the development of commercial suburbanization in the selected metropolitan areas was in the structure of functional categories. Then, there was a difference in development rate of commercial suburbanization and also in spatial distribution of commercial suburbanization within the metropolitan areas. The structure- based difference could to a certain degree be interpreted by different macro-location within the Czech Republic. There was a considerable influence of transport factor within the formation of a spatial distribution of commercial suburbanization in both MAs. Key..