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Little attention is paid to the inhabitants' views of places where brownfields are localized. If the residentsattract some attention in this matter, it is most often at global level, and no influence of responders'characteristics or of place of questioning on the perception of problems of brownfields is examined inmore detail. However, there is a consensus among researchers that these variables have an immediateeffect on perception. That is why we set the objective to assess the impact of inhabitants' characteristicsand of the place of residence on the structure of preferences for various types of brownfields regeneration.Respondents were questioned in three zones (city center, vicinity of the city and the peripheralsurroundings of the city) of two cities (497 respondents in Karviná and 833 respondents in ČeskéBudějovice, both Czech Republic). Socio-economic characteristics of the respondents were pursued andrespondents commented on the extent of agreement with the use of existing brownfields in three definedzones of cities. The impact of origin of the resident (geographic characteristics) and of the character of therespondent (soci-economic characteristics) on a structure in preferences was studied sequentially bymeans of three methods of multidimensional data analysis (PCA, RDA, and Variation Partitioning). Allmethods led us to reveal a structure of four factors of preferences for regeneration: green/sport,housing/shopping, industry, and entertainment. Following the RDA the statistically significant variablesto influence the structure of answers are both geographical variables - city, zone of a city - and threesocio-economic variables - gender, age, and education. Preference for commercial-residential use ofbrownfields has a distinctive centre-periphery distribution within the city.