The development of differentiation in educational and economic level in municipalities of Středočeský kraj in the period 1980-2011 with focus on the impact of suburbanization

The spatial differentiation of social and economic attributes is influenced by processes which take place on different measuring levels. Considering phenomena connected to the spatial distribution of population, undoubtedly the most important processes are those linked with urbanization. In the context of Středočeský kraj, the geographical organization is influenced by the dominant position of the capital city of Prague and especially by suburbanization in the last 25 years. The main aim is to describe spatial distribution of socioeconomical characteristics of the population represented by indicators of economic and educational level in Středočeský kraj and the development of this distribution in the period 1980-2011. The next aim of this thesis is to discover, whether there is a significant connection between the developments of economic and educational level, and then to determine the impact of suburbanization processes on those phenomena. The results show that there is a positive impact of suburbanization to the economic and educational level of municipalities in the background of Prague, even though the spatial patterns of characteristics representing these levels in the considered period of time have substantially different development. The results however also indicate, that in some sense there is a..