Stanilov, Kiril
Confronting Suburbanization: Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe
This fascinating book explains the processes of suburbanization in the context of post-socialist societies transitioning from one system of socio-spatial order to another. Case studies of seven Central and Eastern Europe city regions illuminate growth patterns and key conditions for the emergence of sprawl.
- Breaks new ground, offering a systematic approach to the analysis of the global phenomenon of suburbanization in a post-socialist context
- Tracks the boom of the post-socialist suburbs in seven CEE capital city regions – Budapest, Ljubljana, Moscow, Prague, Sofia, Tallinn, and Warsaw
- Situates the experience of the CEE countries in the broader context of global urban change
- Case studies examine the phenomenon of suburbanization along four main vectors of analysis related to development patterns, driving forces, consequences and impacts, and management of suburbanization
- Highlights the critical importance of public policies and planning on the spread of suburbanization
Keywords: regime; collapse; central; communist; socialist; transformation; dramatic; countries; former; period; dispersal; important; rearrangement; frenetic; urban; ensuing; space; processes; growth; metropolitan; postsocialist; controversial; spatial, Urban Sociology, Human Geography, Urban Sociology, Human Geography
- Editor
- Stanilov, Kiril
- Sýkora, Ludĕk
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
- Page amount
- 360 pages
- Category
- Technology, Energy, Traffic
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118295885
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405185479