Transition to democracy and the fragmentation of a city: four cases of Central European capitals

Surazska, Wisla

doi:10.1016/0962-6298(95)00064-x

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“…Another sub-topic -the reform of spatial arrangement of public administration in cities (also its sublocal decentralisation) -was worked on by Owen (1994), Surazska (1996) and Buček (2000) in reference to Polish Płock, Central-European capitals and large Slovak cities.…”

Section: Urban Planning and Management On City Territorymentioning

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

Kubeš

2013

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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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

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Section: Urban Planning and Management On City Territorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Kubeš

2013

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Turnock

1998

GeoJournal

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Municipal Budgets in Poland and the Czech Republic in the Third Year of Reform

Surazska

Blažek

1996

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Municipal budgets in Poland and the Czech Republic are compared in the context of the institutional settings adopted for local government in each country. Wildavsky's model of budgetary behaviour for ‘poor and uncertain’ budget makers is applied to explain the financial decisions of local authorities in the circumstances of postcommunist transition. The scope of independence of local budgeting is examined in both countries with regard to legal restrictions on municipal revenues and expenditures and also in regard to the relationship between local government and the intermediary level of state administration. Two hypotheses are tested concerning the capital expenditures of the municipal governments under study. The first seeks to explain the impact of state grants on the level of municipal investments, depending on the way they are distributed—directly from the centre or through the district offices. The second hypothesis concerns the consequences of electoral rules on budgetary decisions of the respective councils. At the end, a map of municipal incomes is produced for each country, both reflecting the west—cast gradient of modernization.

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Transition to democracy and the fragmentation of a city: four cases of Central European capitals

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

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

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

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Municipal Budgets in Poland and the Czech Republic in the Third Year of Reform

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