This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of 'urban reinvention'in
Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring …

The report highlights the complexity of new urban problems, including uncontrolled sprawl,
failing infrastructure, loss of natural resources and cultural heritage, and growing socio …

After many decades of inner-city decline and massive suburbanization during the post-
socialist transition of the 1990s, in eastern Germany there has been recently evolving a new …

There is hardly a region of the world which underwent a more dramatic transformation over
the last twenty years than the region comprising the so-called transitional countries. This …

Since the start of the Soviet era, everyday Russian life has been characterised by
unsatisfactory housing conditions. For decades a shortage of housing forced the majority of …

The dramatic events of Maidan in February 2014 shone a spotlight on the immense
problems facing Ukraine. At the same time that Ukraine was undergoing turmoil, its western …

The paper raises the problem of the impact of unregulated property and ownership rights on
the development of the city centre. It applies to Warsaw as a post-socialist city that has …

Background The last two decades have seen a growing trend towards the research of voting
behavior in post-communist countries. Urban sociology theorists state that not only space …

The past two decades of suburbanization have left a tremendous footprint on the hinterland
of major Slovak cities. The paper is focusing on this phenomenon from the perspective of …

Abstract [eng] Socially formed urban spaces express visions of city development and
structure the social processes themselves. Although a direct correspondence between the …