2023, Volume 57, Number 3 – 4
In Search of Postmodern City: Urban Changes and Continuities in East Central Europe between Late Socialism and Capitalism (1970-2000)
Matěj Spurný, Petr Roubal, Henrieta Moravčíková, Peter Szalay
Scientific studies
Does Postmodern Mean Capitalist? On Postmodernism and the Planned Economy in Poland and the German Democratic Republic
Florian Urban
Does postmodern mean capitalist? This article aims at providing an answer to this question by comparing postmodernism in two socialist…
The Return to the City towards the End of the Normalisation Period
Petr Vorlík
The article will focus on a critical re-evaluation of approaches to the city in the period of late normalization; especially…
The Parks of Culture and Leisure in Prague and Bratislava: The Story of a Transition
Henrieta Moravčíková, Petr Roubal
The article will focus on a critical re-evaluation of approaches to the city in the period of late normalization; especially…
The Anatomy of Privatization: The Genealogy and Practice of Postsocialist Transformation of Housing in Bratislava
Matěj Spurný
The general story of ECE cities in the era of transformation is well known. What began in the course of…
Tracing the Housing Frontline: The Post-Socialist Legacy of Housing Policies in Bucharest during the 1970s–1980s
Cosmina Bouaru
During the 1970s and 1980s, the construction of large housing complexes in Romania, particularly in the capital city of Bucharest,…
The Role of Open Spaces in Restructuring the Cerak Vinogradi Housing Estate in Belgrade
Jovana Bugarski
The paper’s subject examines the role of open spaces in restructuring the Cerak Vinogradi housing estate, planned and built in…
Foregrounding of Individual Lots in Zagreb – From Sensible Critique Towards Rampant Speculation
Melita Čavlović, Antun Sevšek
In the 1980s, in parallel to the decline of large-scale planning, a local critique of modernist urbanism came to dominate…
From Housing Estate to City?
Karviná and the Plans for a New Centre in the Karviná-Hranice Housing Estate Post-1989
Eva Špačková
The city of Karviná is an example of the process in which the meaning of a settlement changes over time,…
Let it Sprawl: Post-Socialist Policies Enabling Suburbanization
Pavel Šuška, Martin Šveda
Suburbanization processes in the hinterland of Bratislava represent one of the most significant socio-spatial transformations in the post-socialist history of…
Tirana: Its History and a Post-Socialist Perspective on Urban Growth and Transformation between 1991–2016
Blerta Dino, Sam Griffiths
This paper examines Tirana’s urbanization process from a socio-morphological perspective. It presents a quick understanding on how Tirana came to…
