The changes in social and demographic structure of large housing estates in post-socialist Poland and their main determinants

Szafrańska, Ewa

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“…Empirical work continues to identify post-socialist housing estates as places of social mixing., e.g. Temelová et al (2011) for Prague, Szafrańska (2011) for Łodz, Grossmann et al (2015) for Leipzig. For Prague, a survey covering perceptions of ideal housing found that large housing estates were considered as ideal housing by one out of five respondents, and by nearly half the respondents living in a housing estate (Sunega et al, 2014).…”

Section: Making Dignity Explicit In Urban Geography: Two Examplesmentioning

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Dignity in urban geography: Starting a conversation

Großmann

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2022

Dialogues in Human Geography

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Studies in critical urban geography actively deal with injustices and humiliation, employing concepts like equity, justice, sustainability and the like, but strikingly, dignity is not among such current normative concepts. Analytic perspectives and definitions of dignity are widely discussed by philosophy, legal studies, and race and indigenous studies, but a dialogue of this literature with urban geographical work is still pending. This article initiates a conceptual conversation between these traditions. It reviews how dignity occurs in urban geographical work, then presents contemporary literature on the concept of dignity, and suggests a heuristic approach that can then serve geographical analyses. We outline the potential of scholarly engagement with the concept of dignity and its merits in considering two classic topics of urban geographical scholarship from a dignity-perspective: the employment of dignifying rhetoric for promotion of mega-events, and large housing estates as a stigmatized type of neighbourhood. We highlight affectual and relational perspectives of dignity, including the interpersonal and societal emergence of dignifying or humiliating practices, and the contingency of the concept of dignity across time and context. For critical urban studies and human geography, we thus establish dignity as the moral status of a person, of a collective, and of a place within a given context rather than a universal moral status.

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Section: Making Dignity Explicit In Urban Geography: Two Examplesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dignity in urban geography: Starting a conversation

Großmann

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2022

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“…Based on this, the statement of Musterd and Van Kempen (2007) that many dissatisfied residents live in Eastern European housing estates of the postwar period contradicts the empirical results presented above: Soviet housing estates in Dnipro have mostly retained their prestige and have a good reputation. Furthermore, in Dnipro as in some other postcommunist metropolises (e.g., Herfert et al, 2013;Szafrańska, 2014;Gorczyca, 2016;Galuszka, 2020), there is a weak and fragmented influence of such a negative phenomenon as the "large housing estate syndrome" (see more Szafrańska, 2013;Szafrańska, 2017), which comprises socio-spatial and physical degradation of a large housing estate and the formation of a negative perceptron image in relation to it among the rest of the city residents.…”

Section: Neighbourhood Satisfaction In the Post-soviet Metropolis: In...mentioning

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Neighbourhood (dis)satisfaction in a former closed Soviet city: the case of Dnipro(petrovsk), Ukraine

Havryliuk

2022

BGSS

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This paper describes and analyses the geography and factors of the neighbourhood satisfaction of the residents of a former post-WWII Soviet closed city in Ukraine – the post-Soviet city of Dnipro (population ca. one million). It is based on a questionnaire survey (n=1248) among adult (18+) inhabitants in Dnipro conducted in early 2018. The results show that the current inner-urban pattern is characterised by semi-peripheralised neighbourhood satisfaction, which is a consequence of the significant influence of (among other factors): infrastructure availability in the neighbourhood, the social and natural environmental in the neighbourhood, and the set of Soviet-legacy factors (the “Soviet” factor). Surprisingly, the highest level of neighbourhood satisfaction in the city of Dnipro is observed in one of the peripheral neighbourhoods (with predominant detached housing), in which the residents’ evaluation of their residential neighbourhood follows the proximity effect.

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“…Raising fences and other spatial barriers in large housing estates -the flagship housing developments of the socialist era -is characteristic of the latter phase of post-socialist gating. Considering the relatively high level of safety in this type of residential milieu, any security claims justifying the need for fences remain unfounded (Szafrańska 2017). Moreover, the rejection of modernist…”

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Gating as exclusionary commoning in a post-socialist city

Grabkowska

Szmytkowska

2021

REGION

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New-build gated condominiums at the periphery of a post-socialist city are a well-studiedphenomenon. However, in Poland, recent years have seen an expansion of residential gating into oldinner-city neighbourhoods and socialist large housing estates. The resulting fragmentation andprivatisation of public space have raised much controversy and debate on appropriation of urbancommon good. This paper presents outcomes of a research on the changing discourse of gating inGdańsk, based on a discourse analysis of newspaper articles and interviews with key urbanstakeholders. On the one hand, gating is seen as an anti-commoning practice criticised for its elitistcharacter and undesirable socio-spatial consequences. On the other, a narrative of exclusionarycommons has emerged to justify the need of gating in specific cases. Considering the varyingmotivations and types of gating in different urban areas, the authors have attempted a classification,relating gating practices to commoning strategies and their justification in localities typicallycharacterised by atomistic individualism and social disintegration.

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The changes in social and demographic structure of large housing estates in post-socialist Poland and their main determinants

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Dignity in urban geography: Starting a conversation

Dignity in urban geography: Starting a conversation

Neighbourhood (dis)satisfaction in a former closed Soviet city: the case of Dnipro(petrovsk), Ukraine

Gating as exclusionary commoning in a post-socialist city

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