Discursive Framings of Low Carbon Urban Transitions: The Contested Geographies of ‘Satellite Settlements’ in the Czech Republic

Petrova, Saška; Posová, Darina; House, Adam; Sýkora, Luděk

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“…By looking into these experiments, it is evident that transition research is developing the evidence-based knowledge which is needed to show how urban sustainability transitions should be managed. Some noteworthy elements which have been investigated include contextual barriers sustaining resistance to change (Nagorny-Koring and Nochta, 2018), organizational dynamics and governance structures for regulating the transformation (Eames et al, 2013;Hodson and Marvin, 2012;North and Longhurst, 2013), the practical implications of institutional tensions and contradictions (Castán Broto, 2015;Fuenfschilling and Truffer, 2014), and the challenges that controlling urban sustainability transitions in suburban expansions pose (Dodson, 2014;Petrova et al, 2013).…”

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Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

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Deakin

Batty

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Journal of Urban Technology

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This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between theorizing in smart city development studies and some of the foundational assumptions underpinning transition management and system innovation research, human geography, spatial planning, and critical urban scholarship. This interdisciplinary theoretical formulation details our evidence-based interpretation of how smart city transitions should be conceptualized and enacted in order to overcome the oversimplification fallacy resulting from corporate discourses on smart urbanism. By offering a broad and realistic understanding of smart city transitions, the proposed theory combines different smart-city-related concepts in a model which attempts to expose what causal mechanisms surface in sustainable smart city transitions and to guide empirical inquiry in smart city research. Together with all the authors contributing to this Special Issue, our objective is to give smart city research more robust scientific foundations and to generate theoretical propositions upon which subsequent large-scale empirical testing can be conducted. With the proposed middle-range theory, different empirical settings can be investigated by using the same analytical elements, facilitating the cross-case analysis and synthesis of the systematic research efforts which are progressively contributing to shedding light on the assemblage of sustainable smart city transitions.

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Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

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“…Haase, D. and Nuissl, H. (2007) evaluated Leipzig's suburbanisation in terms of its impact on the water environment in the suburban landscape (reduced water retention, increased flood hazard, water quality degradation). Petrova, S. et al (2013) discuss issues of low carbon satellite settlements in Czechia and Kroll, F. et al (2012)…”

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Suburbs around the Czech provincial city of České Budějovice – territorial arrangement and problems

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Nováček

2019

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The article is a contribution to discussions about the territorial arrangement of suburbs, their types and other settlements in suburban zones around post-socialist CEE provincial cities, based on the example of the South Bohemian "one-hundred-thousand" city of České Budějovice, including territorial development problems of suburbs and other settlements. Suburbs, separated from the city by free space, originate there from the original villages. These suburbs are population-growing settlements with the majority of flats in newer houses, immigrants from the city and economically active people working in the city (based on census data and ongoing registrations). Nearby, moderately distant and more distant suburbs occur in three concentric suburban sub-zones around the examined city, in which the population and spatial size of the suburbs gradually diminish. Semi-suburbs with partial suburbanisation and small towns also occur there. The territorial development problems of some suburbs are mainly associated with the disordered (sub)urban sprawl, the inadequate architecture of new houses, the poor quality and capacity of the technical infrastructure, the lack of public transport connections to the city, the absence and low capacity of kindergartens and elementary schools, clashes with recreational second homes, the lack of greenery and the losses of agricultural land.

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“…First, there is an infrastructural dimension embedded in historical legacies. dh systems -which were planned and constructed under socialism in order to meet the needs of growing populations and industrial production -are now faced with a shrinking inner city and suburban sprawl (in line with wider trends in Eastern and Central Europe, see Großmann et al 2013;Petrova et al 2013;Stanilov and Sýkora 2014), which is technically and economically unsuitable for the delivery of centralized heat supply. a network designed under the former socioeconomic system thus not only functions sub-optimally under current market conditions, but its sub-optimality is being further deepened by external and internal systemic pressures: [d]uring the last two decades it has been known that the capacity of the distribution networks … [will remain unused] … because of the exclusion of industrial capacities that do not exist anymore, or decided to disconnect.…”

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Locked-in post-socialism: rolling path dependencies in Liberec’s district heating system

Bouzarovski

Sýkora

Matoušek

2016

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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Faculty of science, department of social Geography and regional development, charles university, prague, czech republic ABSTRACT This paper uses the experience of post-socialist district heating reforms to tell a broader story about the continued and shared challenges that central and eastern European cities face as they grapple with the legacies of the recent and more distant past. We argue that the restructuring of this infrastructural domain has been contingent upon geographically embedded trajectories stemming from previous historical periods, while leading to the creation of new socio-technical lock-ins. The paper thus develops the notion of "rolling path-dependencies" in order to explore how post-socialist developments both overcome and supplant previous trajectories of transformation. It focuses on the northern Czech town of Liberec -a place that is known for having some of the highest heating prices in the country -to elucidate how a socially, economically, and environmentally detrimental lock-in has come into existence as a result of illconceived policies of marketization, municipalization, and privatization. Using evidence from official documents and interviews with policy-makers, we demonstrate how the infrastructural legacies of post-socialism both persist and are being reproduced at the urban scale even within "advanced" reforming states like Czechia.

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Discursive Framings of Low Carbon Urban Transitions: The Contested Geographies of ‘Satellite Settlements’ in the Czech Republic

Cited by 15 publications

References 37 publications

Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective

Suburbs around the Czech provincial city of České Budějovice – territorial arrangement and problems

Locked-in post-socialism: rolling path dependencies in Liberec’s district heating system

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