Changes of the City of Poprad from the Point of View of Landscape ...

Significant increase of 620,12 ha of land was recorder within the
sixth group of settlement elements and recreational facilities, within
the eight group or elements of transportation (276,86 ha) and the
group of technological elements (240,24 ha). Apart from the
elements of the water courses and surfaces group, the most stable
areas include elements of coniferous forests situated in the western
part of the area and elements of large-scale fields in the south-west.
The proportion of natural elements (groups 1 – 5) to other elements
created by man (groups 6 – 8) was, in the year 1782, calculated as
35:1 or 97,23% to 2,77% in respect to the total and in the year 2007
as 3,8:1 or 79,15% to 20,85%, which indicates an almost eight-fold
increase.
Graph 1: Changes in the groups of landscape elements from
1782-2007
Source: Vladimír Solár (2011)
CONCLUSION
According to Lipský (2002), the observation and detailed evaluation
of the historical development of an area is one of the elementary
steps in solving current landscape-ecological problems. In terms of
the aim, trends in the development of the landscape structure of the
cadastre area of the city of Poprad were analysed and clarified. In the
last 225 years, the cadastre area of the city of Poprad went through
apparent changes in the landscape structure. It was especially the