Land-Use Dynamics in Transport-Impacted Urban Fabric: A Case Study of Martin–Vrútky, Slovakia

Jana Nozdrovická, Ivo Dostál, František Petrovič, Imrich Jakab, Marek Havlíček, Hana Skokanová, Vladimír Falťan and Peter Mederly
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Jana Nozdrovická: Department of Ecology & Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 94974 Nitra, Slovakia
Ivo Dostál: Department of Ecology & Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 94974 Nitra, Slovakia
František Petrovič: Department of Ecology & Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 94974 Nitra, Slovakia
Imrich Jakab: Department of Ecology & Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 94974 Nitra, Slovakia
Marek Havlíček: Transport Research Centre (CDV), Líšeňská 33a, 63600 Brno, Czech Republic
Hana Skokanová: Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Lidická 25/27, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic
Vladimír Falťan: Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
Peter Mederly: Department of Ecology & Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 94974 Nitra, Slovakia

Land, 2020, vol. 9, issue 8, 1-24

Abstract: The paper evaluates landscape development, land-use changes, and transport infrastructure variations in the city of Martin and the town of Vrútky, Slovakia, over the past 70 years. It focuses on analyses of the landscape structures characterizing the study area in several time periods (1949, 1970, 1993, 2003); the past conditions are then compared with the relevant current structure (2018). Special attention is paid to the evolution of the landscape elements forming the transport infrastructure. The development and progressive changes in traffic intensities are presented in view of the resulting impact on the formation of the landscape structure. The research data confirm the importance of transport as a force determining landscape changes, and they indicate that while railroad accessibility embodied a crucial factor up to the 1970s, the more recent decades were characterized by a gradual shift to road transport.

Keywords: secondary landscape structure; land-use changes; transport networks; anthropogenic driving forces; Slovakia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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