The vernacular cultural landscape forms an integral part of the identity of a particular area. It consists of the surviving remains of the historic agricultural landscape, traditional vernacular architecture, and spatial structure of the settlements. The dramatic political and socio-economic events of the 20th century have transformed this historical heritage in Central Europe in a fundamental way. This study aims to discover what driving forces have contributed to preserving this heritage – natural and geographical conditions, historical circumstances, and the social and economic processes of the last century can be expected to influence this process. Building monuments, conservation areas, historic cultural landscapes and places with preserved cultural values are not evenly distributed throughout the Czech Republic, which creates an opportunity to study the driving forces mentioned above. The objectives of the study are (1) to compare the geographic distribution of traditional vernacular architecture with the distribution of preserved historic cultural landscapes, (2) to identify predictors (environmental, geographical, socio-economical and other factors) that may have influenced the preservation of both vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes, (3) to model the hypothetical occurrence of both features in regions of data scarcity (or, to identify regions with underestimated heritage record).
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