Urban resilience: an instrument to decode the post-socialist socio-economic and spatial transformations of cities from Central and Eastern Europe

Smart city: A critical assessment of the concept and its implementation in Romanian urban strategies

“…The concentration pattern tends to be replicated at a national scale as well, with most smart initiatives being found in the southern, western and central regions, a decoupling of eastern smart cities markets being noticeable. Similar findings are reported in the recent literature focused on smart cities from Central and Eastern Europe (B anic a et al, 2020;Kadar, 2016;Nin cevi c Pa sali c et al, 2021;Sandu et al, 2021;Serbanica & Constantin, 2017;Sikora-Fernandez, 2018).…”

From the "West of the East" to the "East of the West": The post-socialist economic and structural transition of Central and South-Eastern Europe

“…By contrast, in centralized monocentric settings the second tier of the urban network is dwarfed by the capital in terms of both size and function. This is particularly evident in the Romanian, Bulgarian or Hungarian case where despite numerous state-led initiatives a counter-pole system could not be formed within the city network (Rechnitzer et al, 2019;Szabó et al, 2021;Sandu, 2023).…”