Suburban landscape: Analysis of manifestation of suburbanization in the hinterland of Presov

Suburbanization processes, determined mainly in the past three decades by population migration, social and economic incentives, have distinctly transformed the character and land use in the hinterland of major Slovak cities. Expansion of residential and commercial built-up areas has clearly altered the visual manifestation of the suburban landscape and also motivated a special approach to its research from the point of view of spatial morphology. The aim of the article is to analyse the dynamism of land cover changes in the functional urban region (FUR) of Presov applying the CORINE Land cover (CLC) data for the years 1990 - 2018 classified for seven types and two subtypes: urbanizations with residential and urbanization with industrial, transport and service built-up areas. Special analysis has been used for the spatial morphology of residential built-up areas in the close hinterland of Presov, defined on the basis of the crude rate of population immigration, aerial photographs, ZBGIS database (the basic data base for the geographic information system), and field research as the suburban landscape. The aim of this analysis was to identify the types of spatial configuration of residential urban development in the hinterland of Presov and to clarify the manifestation of suburbanization in the other parts of Slovakia.