European post-socialist cities and their near hinterland in intra-urban geography literature

Abstract

Over 180 articles concerning urban geography aspects of European post-socialist cities and their near hinterland, published between 1990-2012 in international journals, were selected for the analysis in this paper. Statistics of articles by journals, analysed cities (and their countries) and authors proves the preponderance of research on post-socialist Central European capitals, especially Berlin, Prague and Budapest, followed by Leipzig and Łodź, as well as Moscow and Tallinn. It also proves that the number of domestic authors and those who moved from post-socialist Europe to Western universities gradually increased, while the number of authors from the West decreased. The analysis of representations of article topics, their explanations and justifications were carried out in the second part of the paper. The most frequent article topics include ‘social spatial structure of the city and its transformation’, followed by ‘urban planning and management in the city’ and ’suburbanisation and urban sprawl in the near hinterland of the city’. A smaller number of articles refers to ‘physical spatial structure of the city and its transformation’, ‘housing structure in urban neighbourhoods in connection with changes in housing policy and market’ and ‘functional spatial structure of the city and its transformation’. Indexes of the articles are part of this paper

Analysis of Regulation of Residential Suburbanisation in Hinterland of Post-socialist ‘One Hundred Thousands’ City of České Budějovice

“…Compared with Western Europe, in these countries residential suburbanization was significantly delayed, took place in parallel with the process of revitalization, gentrification of selected inner-city neighbourhoods, and with the ongoing decline in social status of housing estates in the city. More detail on this issue can be found in Kok and Kovács (1999), Tammaru (2005), Hirt (2007), Ouředníček (2007), , or Kubeš (2013). In post-socialist countries suburbanisation is considered a spatially structural change within the landscape of the hinterland of the city in which the representation of the built-up land significantly increases due to the construction of houses, commercial and other buildings.…”

“…About 14 % of the articles discuss this topic (Kubeš, 2013) and its subtopics (labeled A -H). They deal with the changes in the distribution of the population between the city and its hinterland (A).…”

Spatial variation of in-migration to Moscow: Testing the effect of housing market

“…Since the 1990s, the intensive in-migration to the post-socialist capitals along with the increased residential mobility within the cities have largely contributed to the substantial transformation of their residential areas, altering appearance and social structure (Haase, Grossmann, & Steinführer, 2012;Hess, Tammaru, & Leetmaa, 2012;Kährik, Leetmaa, & Tammaru, 2012;Kubeš, 2013). If under state socialism housing was distributed on the priority basis according to the decision of the authorities (Gentile & Sjöberg, 2006;Hess et al, 2012;Vendina, 2002), under market conditions the residential choices of households depend on individual needs/aspirations and are limited by the available resources (Mulder & Wagner, 1998).…”

Urban land restitution in Cape Town: demanding the return of land rights in Constantia and Kensington/Ndabeni

“…Since the fall of the Berlin wall transitioning societies have been grappling with land reform processes. A new post-socialist city (Kubeš, 2013;Stanilov, 2007;Lavigne, 2000, Sailer-Fliege, 1999Andrusz et al, 1996;Ghanbari-Parsa, Moatazed-Keivani, 1999) is emerging and private ownership through resti-tution processes is key to this transfomation. Kozminski's (1997) research on restitution of property confiscated by the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe examined the problems experienced by these new democratic governments such as practical aspects related to investors' confidence, moral, symbolic, and emotional problems.…”