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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.
Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Conflicts and Divisions of Urban Space. Linking Post-socialist and Global Discourses (Valentin Mihaylov)....Pages 1-20
Front Matter ....Pages 21-21
The Role of the State Border in Socio-Cultural Changes of a Divided Town. Cieszyn/Český Tĕšín in a Regional Context (Jerzy Runge, Anna Runge)....Pages 23-39
Divided Towns on the Polish-German Border—Dissimilar Sisters? (Katarzyna Kulczyńska)....Pages 41-56
Kosovska Mitrovica as Two Parallel Cities in the Twenty-First Century (Danijela Vukoičić, Miroljub Milinčić)....Pages 57-72
Front Matter ....Pages 73-73
Divided Space or Divided Society? The Case of Vukovar (Marta Zorko)....Pages 75-89
Ethnoterritorial Divisions and Urban Geopolitics in Post-Yugoslav Mostar (Valentin Mihaylov)....Pages 91-110
How Do State and Military Borders Divide the Urban Spaces of Donbas? Cases of Milove/Chertkovo and Zolote (Roman Slyvka, Iryna Zakutynska)....Pages 111-128
Front Matter ....Pages 129-129
Cultural Atavism in the Face of an Environmental Disaster: Skopje 2014 in the limelight (Mirek Dymitrow)....Pages 131-149
(Not) Our Heritage: Cultural Milieu and Urban Space of Lviv (Natalia Otrishchenko, Inga Kozlova)....Pages 151-170
Ideologic Storms in the Still Waters: Postrevolutionary Life of Urban Spaces in Vinnytsia, Ukraine (Oleksiy Gnatiuk, Anatoliy Melnychuk)....Pages 171-188
Front Matter ....Pages 189-189
The Multiplication of Inherited Defects and Its Impact on the Emergence of New Spatial Conflicts. Evidences from Post-socialist Sofia (Kosyo Stoychev)....Pages 191-209
Spatial Segregation of Roma Settlements Within Serbian Cities. Examples from Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Kruševac (Zlata Vuksanović-Macura)....Pages 211-224
Globalisation, Social Polarisation and Conflicts in the Urban Space of a Post-socialist City: The Case of Kielce, Poland (Stanisław Sala)....Pages 225-242
Conclusion (Valentin Mihaylov)....Pages 243-248
Back Matter ....Pages 249-257
Geography; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Human Geography; International Relations; Russian, Soviet, and East European History
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