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Prague's growth

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Abstract

The purpose of this specialized map is to describe the spatial differentiation of Prague's population evolution from the mid-19th century to the present in the context of the expansion of the capital's administrative borders. The map sheet contains one map assessing the population and population density evolution in Prague municipal districts since 1869 within Prague's current borders.

The remaining three maps feature cartograms of population density in selected years in the interwar, socialist and post-1989 periods and proportional symbols of population evolution for each individual period. The diagram contains three concentric symbols representing the population in the given year.

For clarity reasons, the data was normalized. The individual symbols are marked with different colours and turned by 120 and 240 degrees with respect to the initial symbol, so that for units with no significant changes values for all time horizons were clearly evident.