Full Description
Going beyond the assumption that East Central European cities are still 'in transition' this book draws on the postsocialism paradigm to ask new questions about the impact of demographic change on residential developments in this region. Focussing on four second-order cities in this region, it examines Gdansk and Lódz in Poland and Brno and Ostrava in the Czech Republic as examples and deals with the nexus between urban development and demographic change for the context of East Central European cities. It provides a framework for linking urban and demographic research. It discusses how residential areas and urban developments cope with changes in population development, household types and different forms of in- and out-migration and goes on to explore parallels and differences in comparison with broader European patterns. This book will be useful to academics of urban planning and development especially in transition areas, Central and Eastern European studies, demographics and population studies, and sociology/social exclusion.
Contents
I: Conceptual Background, Context Conditions and Methodological Considerations; 1: Introduction: Idea, Premises and Background of this Volume; 2: Residential Change: Conceptualization, Methodological Challenges and Research Design; 3: Housing, Households and Demographic Challenge in Urban Space: Conceptual Considerations and Context Conditions in East Central Europe; 4: The Post-socialist Condition and Beyond: Framing and Explaining Urban Change in East Central Europe; 5: The Inner City in Focus; 6: ?ód?, Gda?sk, Brno and Ostrava and their Inner Cities: Urban and Demographic Development during Post-socialism; II: Empirical Investigations on and in Polish and Czech Inner Cities; 7: Old-new Diversity: Processes and Structures of Socio-Demographic Change in the Inner City; 8: Households as Actors I: Housing Careers and Housing Arrangements; 9: Households as Actors II: Attitudes towards Living in the Inner City; 10: Flexible Households, Flexible Dwellings, Flexible Neighbourhoods?; 11: Brick or Block - Housing Preferences and the Urban Fabric; 12: Tenure Change and Sociability: Transformation of Neighbourly Relations; III: Summary, Conclusion and Outlook; 13: Conclusion: Findings and Reflections
