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Spatial Conflicts and Divisions in Post-socialist Cities, 1st ed. 2020
The Urban Book Series
Language: EnglishSubject for Spatial Conflicts and Divisions in Post-socialist Cities:
Publication date: 12-2021
257 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2020
257 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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This book presents cross-national insights into spatial fragmentation in post-socialist cities in Europe. Trying to rethink the heritage of the last 30 years of transformation and grasp current processes taking urban units of various categories as examples, the book exemplifies typical or unique causes of political, social and ethnic disintegration of cities in Central and Eastern Europe. Presenting spatial studies into different cases of conflict in a cross-national context, the authors apply concepts of contested and divided cities, urban geopolitics, cultural atavism, contested heritage, etc.
The book is divided into four parts. The first part raises the issue of genesis, development and contemporary discrepancies of cities divided by political and state borders. The second part includes chapters which deal with the impact of ongoing geopolitical divisions, wars, and ideologies on the social and political tensions as well as their polarising effect on urban territory. The third part comprises reflections on controversial relations of ethnic and national culture with urban space. The fourth part deals with socio-economic transformation of post-socialist cities which went through transition of old patterns of spatial planning and attempts to establish more rational and justice spatial order.
Cross-national insights into spatial fragmentation in post-socialist cities in Europe
Presents unfamiliar patterns of ethnopolitical conflicts and peace coexisting in urban space
Text analyses supplemented by maps, figures and photographs