Characteristics of post-socialist urban transformation in East Central Europe |
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| Authors: | Ulrike Sailer-Fliege |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Geography, Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, D-35032?, Marburg/Lahn, Germany
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| Abstract: | The development of the post-socialist city has already been characterised by substantial restructuring processes. Particular
emphasis should be drawn to the take-off of the tertiary sector and the comprehensive blight phenomena in the previously industrial
areas. The urban housing sector has witnessed increasing housing affordability problems, a marginalisation of communal housing
stock, an increase of segregation and an intensification of the decay in the old housing stock. In all East Central European
states the spatial development processes of industry and services within the cities basically show clear parallels to the
pattern of urban development in continental Europe. In Hungary housing policy, tenure structure and the level of segregation
already show relatively closer similarities to the neoliberal, Anglo–American pattern of development. The other ECE states
show closer similarities to the corporatist welfare states of continental Europe. As far as medium-term urban development
in East Central Europe is concerned, it is to be assumed that – regardless of the specific path of further development – overall
solutions shall not be found for the fundamental problems which are the legacy of the socialist era – the decay of old housing
stock, large scale derelict industrial areas and the extent and deficiencies of high-rise housing estates.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | housing policy residential segregation socialist city urban transformation in East Central Europe |
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