In the European space, chateau buildings and sites represent an important historical, urban and social element of the cultural landscape, which refers to the continuity of the present and the past in the space of urban and rural settlements. However, it is a sad fact that many of these buildings are now abandoned and dilapidated. The aim of this paper is to identify, against the background of a synthesis of both theoretical and actual knowledge, a group of reasons why this is the case, using the example of the Czech Republic. Due to the political and property changes implemented in the first half of the 20th century, two original groups of market and non-market causes and four categories of causal factors have been determined (inappropriate purpose; ownership problem; operational (investment) inefficiency and extraordinary events), which have their parallel in the analysis of the causes of occurrence specific chateau brownfields in the Moravian-Silesian Region.

The current era acknowledges the immense impact of creativity on economic growth and regional development. There is an ongoing debate about the position of creativity and its sources and implications in regional economies when thorougly examining regional disparities. We contribute to the debate by piloting an investigation of five groups of creative actors whose links and consequences for regional growth and the quaternary sector were explored. As a case study, the NUTS2 regions of the Czech Republic were selected for analysis (2015-2017). Given the nature of selected indicators, the causality results and the substantive importance of our investigation, the selected time period is not a limiting factor for our analyses. The empirical conclusions of the conducted study clearly confirmed the theoretically and logically defined thesis on the diverse importance of creative actors in regional economies.