This research examines the spatial transformations of postsocialist cities in the context of the
polarized national urban system. Focusing on two different periods (1990–2000 and 2000 …

In Europe, urban shrinkage has emerged as a prominent and concerning phenomenon. It is
affecting an increasingly large number of cities, particularly small and medium-sized ones …

Shrinkage since the collapse of state socialism has been evident in many Russian cities,
especially in small and medium-sized (SMS) ones. The Russian state, de jure, has been …

An important challenge for the research on post-socialist big cities is to identify the
mechanisms of their uncontrolled urban space growth. This analysis is focused on the built …

EU post-socialist countries are nowadays the epicenter of urban shrinkage, despite
economic growth trajectories reported during the last decades. However, systematic …

Urban shrinkage has become a common pathway (not only) in post-socialist cities, which
represents new challenges for traditionally growth-oriented spatial planning. Though in the …

The world is undergoing an unprecedented trend of fast urbanization, which causes a range
of socio-environmental consequences, one of which is shrinking cities and towns (SCT) …

The aim of the article is to evaluate the time availability of food stores for the population
permanently residing in the city of Nitra (Slovakia). Parts of the city where poor accessibility …

There is a specific group of former mining cities facing depopulation in Slovakia. They lost
their key growth factor because their natural resources have been exhausted over the …

The problem of depopulation in towns is present in most European countries. In Central and
Eastern Europe it emerged primarily after the political transformation at the turn of the 1980s …