Which parts are inhabited by up to a third of foreigners? The Prague Suburbs project maps the development of Prague, including crime
An atlas full of plans will then be created from the exhibited study results. For example, a visitor to the Kavárna in Kasárny Karlín Café or a reader of a future book will find out what nationalities lived in his neighborhood or when flats were built. You can find the applicant’s data on the Internet within the prazskapredmesti.cz portal. The project created 20 maps showing the transformation of selected Prague suburbs in four periods of metropolitan growth. Those interested will find maps at atlasobyvatelstva.cz.
Who immigrated, whom did they expel?
The effects of the First World War, as well as the subsequent economic crisis and the uncertainties associated with Hitler’s pre-war aggression, had a negative effect on the population of Prague. However, most children were born between 1942 and 1949. After that, with one exception, fewer babies were born than the inhabitants of Prague died. The turning point came in 2007 and continues to this day. Despite the covid wound, Prague holds a higher birth rate than a mortality rate!
The difference between immigrants and emigrants follows the exhibition since 1920. Throughout the 1920s, around 15,000 people came thanks to migration in Prague. After the war, however, the people of Prague expelled about 20,000 Germans from the metropolis. Housing construction then lacked behind the “Commander”. Development was underfunded and there was no room for new residents. However, in the last ten years, Prague has been gaining migration. About eight thousand new “souls” “anchor” in our country every year. Foreigners predominate in the migration flow.
Living in a new era
At the end of the 20th century, housing construction in Prague changed dramatically. Family houses began to be built on the outskirts of the city, and the inhabitants began to make the cities commute to work. According to the authors of the exhibition, at the turn of the millennium, there was four times as much in the villages outside Prague as in the capital itself. After 2009, the tendency to build and live outside the city is not so great, but it still persists. Popular places are, for example, Nupaky, Jesenice or Nehvizdy. The least is built in the historic center and its surroundings.
Criminals, thieves and paws
It could be said that one of the hallmarks of Prague is high crime. It is hard to imagine Wenceslas Square without thieves. From 1883 to 1884, for example 2 people convicted of high treason, 257 for public violence, 30 for insulting Majesty – let’s remember the good soldier Švejk, 8 people for arson, 13 people for murder and 1221 for theft. Wandering and lure men (prostitution) were also plentiful.
Shielding work often appears behind the “chancellor” because unemployment was a crime, as was leaving the republic. A huge increase in crime occurred in the “1990s”, when on average over 83% committed property crime, and most often in Malá Strana.
Since then, however, the number of offenses and crimes in Prague has been steadily declining. The intensity is lower than after the revolution. Today, “only” 66% of crime is involved in property, but Malá Strana still wins. The most dangerous are the parts of the center, crime is usually falling towards the edges.
Foreigners, not strangers
Prague is a magnet for a diverse population from different countries of the world. Today, more than 235,000 foreigners live in our country. They make up approximately 17.5% of the population. This is an exceptional situation between the cities of Central and Eastern Europe. A quarter to a third of the population of other nationalities live in some parts of Prague.
The center is sought after mainly by citizens of European countries and other countries of the world, on the fringes, in normal situations without war in the east, it is more about Ukrainians and Vietnamese. The distribution of foreigners is more or less even. Only Vietnamese prefer the southern parts of the city.
WHERE: Barracks Karlín, Prvního pluku 20/2, cafe Pool.
WHEN: MON – FRI 13:00 – 21:30, SAT – SUN 10:00 – 21:30.
ADMISSION: FREE.
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This is what the Prague Suburbs results exhibition looks like.
Author: Jan Dařílek