Segregation in eastern German cities: Gentrification, downgrading of large estates, and suburbanization

Harth, Annette; Scheller, Gitta; Herlyn, Ulfert

doi:10.1007/bf02497027

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“…Parents of these young people usually remain in the housing estate apartments; thus the age structure of these localities changes and their educational composition stagnates or even decreases. On the other hand, the housing estates have not entered a process of social and physical deterioration, as is the case in Eastern Germany (Harth et al, 1998;Mäding, 2003). This outflow of young (and consequently educated) people is rather part of the life cycle of residential areas (Bourne, 1976), where the young generation leave their parents.…”

Section: Structure Of Suburban Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Differential suburban development in the prague urban region

Ouředníček

2007

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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Ou®edníπek, M., 2007: Differential suburban development in the Prague urban region. Geogr. Ann., 89 B (2): 111-126.ABSTRACT. Numerous authors have asserted that suburbanization contributes to many problems in both suburban and inner city localities. Research of suburban development demonstrates variations in spatial patterns, the intensity of spatial processes, and the social and economic status of new suburbanites. While some forms of suburban development could cause serious problems throughout the urban region, other forms could be perceived as processes improving the quality of life in suburbia. This paper seeks to investigate different types of suburban development in the Prague urban region over the past fifteen years of transformation. The focus of my interest is residential suburbanization, which is one of the most significant spatial processes today in the settlement systems of post-socialist countries. The theoretical part of the contribution deals with the differentiation of spatial processes changing the suburban zone. Here I discuss the concepts of several processes of suburban development and their distinctive impact on both suburban and inner city localities. The empirical part of the contribution is based on an analysis of migration flows in the various localities of the Prague urban region in the period 1995 to 2003. I attempt to describe the magnitude and spatial patterns of suburbanization and the composition of migrants to suburbia. The paper concludes with a discussion about the possible future development of suburbanization in the Prague urban region.

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Section: Structure Of Suburban Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Differential suburban development in the prague urban region

Ouředníček

2007

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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122

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“…In the 1990s, many voices in the academic and public spheres warned against the social and physical degradation of housing estates in post-socialist cities (Szelényi, 1996;Enyedi, 1998). Although there are many problems facing large prefabricated housing estates today, it is not generally a case of the depopulation, abandonment and social degradation that can be found in, for example, many east German cities (Häußermann, 1996;Harth et al, 1998;Mäding, 2003;Glock and Häußermann, 2004). Housing estates in different countries and regions and in various locations in cities have experienced different development trajectories during the postsocialist transition and in some of them the risk of social and physical degradation has become more real.…”

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confidence: 99%

Housing Estates in the Czech Republic after Socialism

Temelová¹,

Novák²,

Ouředníček³

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Urban Studies

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The main purpose of this paper is to identify ongoing changes in post-socialist large housing estates and to clarify their main factors, using a case study approach. The paper examines the transformations of nine housing estates in the third largest Polish city -Łódź. The transformations were analysed in two dimensions: social (socio-demographic changes) and physical (changes in the spatial and functional structure and changes in the physiognomy). The key question was whether the changes occurring in large housing estates in Łódź protect them before the development of the social and physical degradation, identified in many estates in Western Europe, referred as the "large housing estate syndrome". Research has shown that in examined housing estates there are no symptoms of physical or social degradation. Moreover, processes found there contribute to the prevention of the negative phenomena leading to the development of the "large housing estate syndrome".

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“…Kok, 2007; Kotus, 2006). Simultaneously, parts of the prefabricated large housing estates built during state-socialism were affected by relative decline and social erosion (Harth et al, 1998; Kovács and Herfert, 2012; Temelová et al, 2011).…”

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The kaleidoscope of gentrification in post-socialist cities

Kubeš

Kovács

2020

Urban Studies

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Countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have transformed from a centrally planned communist system to a market economy and liberal democracy after 1990. The rapidly changing social and power relations have been gradually manifested in the spatial pattern of cities. After the turn of the millennium, a growing number of papers reported that the regeneration of inner-city neighbourhoods intensified, generating population change in certain areas. Authors writing on urban renewal and gentrification in CEE have been inspired by the typology of gentrification elaborated in Western contexts, even though historical legacies and specific local conditions set serious limitations on the use of such concepts. The aim of this paper is to scrutinise the essential features of urban change and gentrification in post-socialist cities, discussing the main pre-conditions for, actors in and the resulting types of this process. Existing literature in the field has been systematically collected, analysed and compared. According to our findings the classic stage model of gentrification cannot be used in post-socialist cities, partly because the process is still in its infancy and partly because several hybrid forms of gentrification-like processes hide the spatial effects of market-based renewal. The variegated forms of urban change are the result of historical legacies, path dependencies and a set of factors embedded in local contexts. The paper highlights some of the research gaps in the field.

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Segregation in eastern German cities: Gentrification, downgrading of large estates, and suburbanization

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Differential suburban development in the prague urban region

Differential suburban development in the prague urban region

Housing Estates in the Czech Republic after Socialism

The kaleidoscope of gentrification in post-socialist cities

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