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Czech Streets 7

The streets don't care. A drunk man in a tracksuit sings something by Kabát. A woman in heels clicks past like she's walking on knives. The tram number 22 groans up the hill toward Žižkov, its windows fogged with the breath of people going home to beds that won't get any warmer.

| Theme | Key Contributions | Relevance to CS 7 | |-------|-------------------|-------------------| | Street‑Level Photography as Urban Data | Jacobs (1961); Zukin (1995) | Provides a methodological precedent for visual ethnography. | | Post‑Industrial Urban Transition in Central Europe | Havel (2015); Štěpánek (2019) | Frames the observed deindustrialisation in CS 7. | | Soft‑Gentrification & Cultural Capital | Zukin (2010); Smith (2020) | Explains emerging aesthetic upgrades without full displacement. | | GIS‑Based Street Network Analysis | Porta, Crucitti & Latora (2006); Boeing (2021) | Supplies the quantitative backbone for spatial comparison. | | Public Space Resilience Post‑COVID‑19 | European Commission (2022); Rietveld & van den Berg (2023) | Contextualises new pedestrian‑centric interventions. | Czech Streets 7

And in Czech Streets 7 , you always come back. The streets don't care

Dr. Eva Novotná¹, Prof. Jan Kovář², M.Sc. Petra Svobodová³ The tram number 22 groans up the hill