Recent trends and future prospects of socio-spatial differentiation in urban regions of Central and Eastern Europe: A lull before the storm?

Urbanization processes related to the development of residential functions in gminas adjacent to the city of Olsztyn

“…Some authors observed that migration trends had been gradually reversing in recent years and that more people were leaving suburbia for the city. This change can be attributed to the following factors (Brade, 2009;Mantey, 2013;Wójcik, 2013): (a) waning ideal of a country home and the growing appeal of the urban lifestyle, (b) growing costs of living in suburban areas, (c) degradation of housing resources due to wear and decrease in real estate value, (d) population decline and significant reduction in the urban population, (e) degradation of the cultural landscape (planning chaos) and natural landscape (anthropogenic pressure) in suburban villages, which lowers the standard of living, (f) shortage of services unrelated to agriculture in suburban areas. Similar observations were made by Kotus (2006) who noted that selected social groups, in particular single people and couples without children, were increasingly likely to return to the city, mostly due to the inconvenience of commuting.…”

“…Suburbs continue to grow dynamically and develop new functions due to the proximity of metropolitan areas. Those changes were prompted by the abandonment of a central housing policy as the result of the political transformations that had been initiated in Poland in 1989 (Brade, 2009). The rapid development of suburban areas began in the second half of the 1990s, initially in the vicinity of large metro areas, and presently, also in the proximity of medium-sized cities (Kurek et.…”

“…For this reason, suburbanization is defined as a phase of the urbanization process, which leads to a population decrease in downtown areas and the introduction of residential functions in suburban areas, in particular in disUnauthenticated Download Date | 5/12/18 9:47 PM tricts with a predominance of single-family homes (Bański, Wesołowska, 2010;Gorzelany-Plesinska, 2012;Warczewska, Przybyła, 2012). The term "residential suburbanization" has been introduced to the literature (Brade et al, 2009) to highlight the main consequence of the process, in particular in areas zoned for luxury residential construction (Gonda-Soroczyńska, 2009) where new estates constitute gated communities (Bajwoluk, 2008). The above results from intensive investment projects in the residential sector where the resulting landscape is a product of the decisions made by many individual developers (Wójcik, 2010).…”

Socio-Economic Differentiation And Spatial Segregation: Analysis Of Bursa Metropolitan Area

“…Konut piyasası için sağlanan finansman olanakları ile kentsel alanda sunulan konut biçimlerinin farklılaşması, sosyo-mekansal ayrışma hızını etkileyen önemli faktörlerden biri olarak görül-mektedir. 15 Daha fazla konut finansmanı sağlanarak kentsel alanın birbirinden daha farklı yapılara ayrıldığı ve farklılaş-tığı görülmektedir. Özellikle, büyük metropoliten kentlerde arazi piyasalarındaki değerlerin yüksekliğine bağlı olarak, daha fazla mekânsal ayrışma görülmekte, sosyo-ekonomik özelliklere göre farklılaşmış, parçacıl konut bölgeleri daha belirgin biçimde ortaya çıkmaktadır.…”

Ethno-Political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region: An Analysis of Voting Behavior

“…One of the most significant features of this spatial process was urban expansion through the process of suburbanization (Nuissl and Rink 2005;Ouředníček 2007;Tammaru et al 2009;Kok and Kovács 1999;Leetmaa and Tammaru 2007;Novak and Sýkora 2007). Like many other formerly centrally planned cities in Europe, also Vilnius -the capital of Lithuania -is undergoing rapid suburbanization, a process which started right after 1990 (see Ubarevičienė et al 2011;Cirtautas 2013;Brade et al 2009). The processes of urban sprawl and outward mobility in Vilnius are quite similar to what can be observed in other post-Soviet countries (Boren and Gentile 2007;Novak and Sýkora 2007;Krišjāne and Bērziņš 2009).…”