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Socio-spatial aspects of ageing in an urban context: an example from three Czech Republic cities

“…Returning to the last of Kovács's theses on the situation of older residents in the context of post-socialist cities (Kovács 2010), older adults from our research do not appear to be ‘unsatisfied trapped’ residents (Musterd and van Kempen 2007). Significant key factors include satisfactory, spatially achievable social resources, a long duration of stay in the locality, thereby offering the advantage of close familiarity with the local environment and options for routinely managing it via cognitive resources – that is, those factors, which according to Musterd and van Kempen's research, increase the likelihood of residents being characterised as satisfied stayers.…”

“…Thus, the results of our data are mixed, as the process of post-socialist urban change is complex and has diverse impacts on the ageing populations of large towns (Haase et al 2011; Kovács 2010). On the one hand, there are many features of the housing and social environment that enable older adults to stay put and age in place; reconstruction and renovation are having positive effects on the everyday lives of urban older people, producing enabling outcomes in terms of securing more liveable environments (such as the installation of lifts, the construction of pavements, etc.…”

“…There is also a strong ageist tendency in urban studies of interpreting the ageing of the urban populations in negative terms as a decline or decay of the neighbourhoods (Pain 1997). Nevertheless, internationally published papers that combine the new focus on the urban experience of ageing within the context of post-socialist cities are to a large extent missing (Kovács 2010; Steinführer and Haase 2007; Sýkorová 2008, 2012; Temelová and Dvořáková 2012; Vidovićová 2013).…”

“…Musterd and van Kempen distinguish here between ‘unsatisfied springboard residents’, who are planning to move out, ‘satisfied springboard residents’, who are considering moving out, ‘grey middle’, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, and finally ‘unsatisfied trapped residents’, who express a significant dissatisfaction both with their apartment and with their surroundings, but are either unable or unwilling to move out. On the basis of the analysis of five selected post-socialist cities (Leipzig, Vilnius, St. Petersburg, Budapest and Sofia), Kovács (2010) states that there are marked differences between cities and that one cannot arrive at an unambiguous conclusion which might be applied to the ‘post-socialist’ city as a single explanatory model ( cf. Hörschelmann and Stenning 2008; Ferenčuhová 2012); the impact of contemporary changes on the population of older people is to be conceived in a diversified manner.…”

“…One exception is Kovács (2010), who summarises five basic hypotheses relating to the position of senior citizens in the context of post-socialist cities: Kovács introduces the low residential mobility thesis, which states that a lower willingness on the part of senior citizens to move may be a result both of local housing market conditions, particularly low flexibility, and also of the higher emotional and health demands placed on older people by relocation (Fokkema, Gierveld and Nijkamp 1996). The second thesis points to the fact that older adults have been concentrated in old housing stock mostly in the urban centres, followed by the newly built housing estates at the outskirts.…”