Confronting Suburbanization (eBook)

Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe

Kiril Stanilov, Ludĕk Sýkora (Herausgeber)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-29588-5 (ISBN)

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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

Kiril Stanilov is a Senior Research Associate at the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge. His research interests are centred on explorations of contemporary patterns of urban growth and change, and the role played by public policies in shaping urban form transformations. His book publications include Twenty Years of Transition (2009), The Post-Socialist City (2007), and Suburban Form (2003).

Ludĕk Sýkora is a Professor in the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. His research is focused on conceptualization and empirical studies of urban transformations in post-communist cities. He is the joint author of Regional Policy and Planning in Europe (with Paul Balchin and Gregory Bull, 1999) and author of a number of journal articles and book chapters dealing with urban change in Central and East European cities.

Autor

Kiril Stanilov is a Senior Research Associate at the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge. His research interests are centred on explorations of contemporary patterns of urban growth and change, and the role played by public policies in shaping urban form transformations. His book publications include Twenty Years of Transition (2009), The Post-Socialist City (2007), and Suburban Form (2003). Ludek Sykora is a Professor in the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. His research is focused on conceptualization and empirical studies of urban transformations in post-communist cities. He is the joint author of Regional Policy and Planning in Europe (with Paul Balchin and Gregory Bull, 1999) and author of a number of journal articles and book chapters dealing with urban change in Central and East European cities.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors vii

List of Illustrations x

Glossary xvi

Series Editors' Preface xx

Preface xxi

1 The Challenge of Postsocialist Suburbanization 1
Ludek Sykora and Kiril Stanilov

2 Urban Sprawl on the Danube: The Impacts of Suburbanization in Budapest 33
Zoltán Kovács and Iván Tosics

3 Confronting Suburbanization in Ljubljana: From "Urbanization of the Countryside" to Urban Sprawl 65
Natasa Pichler-Milanovic

4 Suburbanization of Moscow's Urban Region 97
Isolde Brade, Alla Makhrova, and Tatyana Nefedova

5 Prague: Urban Growth and Regional Sprawl 133
Ludek k Sykora and Ondre^ j Mulíce^ k

6 Sprawling Sofia: Postsocialist Suburban Growth in the Bulgarian Capital 163
Kiril Stanilov and Sonia Hirt

7 Suburbanization in the Tallinn Metropolitan Area 192
Kadri Leetmaa, Anneli Kährik, Mari Nuga, and Tiit Tammaru

8 Lessons from Warsaw: The Lack of Coordinated Planning and Its Impacts on Urban Sprawl 225
Andrzej Lisowski, Dorota Mantey, and Waldemar Wilk

9 Postsocialist Suburbanization Patterns and Dynamics: A Comparative Perspective 256
Kiril Stanilov and Ludek Sykora

10 Managing Suburbanization in Postsocialist Europe 296
Kiril Stanilov and Ludek Sykora

Index 321

Rezensionen

'This book provides a wealth of novel insights into a
process that has received very little systematic attention in among
researchers and policy-makers alike: the vast process of urban
dispersal unfolding throughout European countries situated east of
the former Iron Curtain. Moving seamlessly across a wide range of
geographical contexts - from the urbanization of the
countryside seen around Ljubljana to Moscow's regional
suburbanization model - the authors demonstrate an acute
ability to detect the local nuances and generic trends that
characterize such dynamics. This edited collection can thus serve
as both a foundational text for scholars as well as a guidance
document for practitioners and decision-makers.'

Stefan Bouzarovski, Professor of Geography and Director of the
Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy, University of
Manchester

'Confronting Suburbanization sheds a bright light
on the processes of contemporary metropolitan growth in a
fascinating region with a long and rich urban history, and
communist legacies which formed a springboard for unprecedented
post-socialist dynamics. In this volume, a set of renowned
international authors with close local knowledge try to untangle
the complexities resulting from both external and internal forces -
political reform, economic liberalization, social and demographic
context - as they manifest themselves in terms of metropolitan
development. The authors offer numerous insights, and clearly note
that there is much both East and West can learn from this dynamic
environment where intensified societal and physical transformation
is happening before our
eyes.'

Zorica Nedovic-Budic, Professor Chair of Spatial Planning,
University College Dublin

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List of Illustrations

Figures

1.1a	Location of socialist housing estates and industrial zones in Prague. Source: the authors.

1.1b	Location of socialist housing estates and industrial zones in Sofia. Source: the authors.

1.2	Urban development in Greater Prague, 1989–2010. Source: the authors.

2.1	Structure of Budapest’s metropolitan region (BMR). Based on data from Dövényi and Kovács, 2006.

2.2	Net migration in the municipalities of Budapest’s urban region, 1990–2007 (immigrants/1,000 inhabitants). Based on data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, 1991 and 2008.

2.3	Volume of newly built dwelling units in Budapest and its agglomeration, 1990–2010. Based on data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, 1991 and 2011.

2.4	Development poles in Budapest’s urban region. Adapted from Dövényi and Kovács, 2006.

3.1	Administrative boundaries within Ljubljana’s metropolitan area. Based on data from Pichler-Milanović, 2005a, various statistical yearbooks of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS), and the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia (GURS).

3.2	Population change in municipalities in Slovenia. Based on data from Benini and Naldi, 2007, various statistical yearbooks of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS), and the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia (GURS).

3.3	Housing construction in Ljubljana’s metropolitan area. Based on data from Pichler-Milanović, 2005a and the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS) for 2012 (methodology of census in 2011).

3.4	An example of a new single-family detached house in Ljubljana’s urban region. Photo by Pichler-Milanović.

3.5	An example of a new mansion-style house in settlements within Ljubljana’s suburban periphery. Photo by Pichler-Milanović.

4.1	Concentric and sectoral structure of Oblast Moscow. Based on data from Ioffe and Nefedova, 2000: 52.

4.2	Typical Russian dachas. Photo by Tatyana Nefedova.

4.3	Distribution of new suburban settlements in Moscow’s suburban region. Based on data from Makhrova, 2006.

4.4	Townhouse community in Dubrovka. Photo by Tatyana Nefedova.

4.5	Raion ring (a) and sector share (b) in new residential construction in Moscow Oblast: 1990, 2001, and 2005. Based on data from Roskomstat, 2006.

4.6	Construction of Moscow City. Photo by Tatyana Nefedova.

4.7	Raion ring share in retail trade in Oblast Moscow: 1990, 2000, 2005, and 2010. Based on data from Makhrova, Nefedova, and Treivish, 2008; Rosmosoblkomstat, 2011.

5.1	Prague’s city region and its zones. Source: the authors.

5.2	Housing construction: number of annually completed dwellings in 1997–2010 according to (a) territorial zones; (b) type of building in core; (c) inner suburbs; and (d) outer suburbs. Based on data from the Czech Statistical Office.

5.3	Housing construction: number of completed dwellings in Prague boroughs and suburban municipalities in 1997–2010. Based on data from the Czech Statistical Office.

5.4	Population change, 1991–2001 (relative increase per 1,000 inhabitants). Based on data from the Czech Statistical Office.

5.5	Population change, 2001–2011 (relative increase per 1,000 inhabitants). Based on data from the Czech Statistical Office.

5.6	Number of jobs in towns and cities in Prague and Central Bohemia in 2001. Based on data from the Czech Statistical Office.

5.7	Nonresidential suburbanization in the Prague city region. Source: the authors.

6.1	Greenbelt between Sofia and villages at the foothills of Vitosha Mountain. Photo by K. Stanilov.

6.2	Commercial advertisement of new housing development at the edge of Sofia. Source: K. Stanilov.

7.1	Map of Tallinn’s metropolitan area (TMA). Source: the authors.

7.2	Net annual migration to Estonian urban settlements in the Soviet period. Based on data from Sakkeus 1991 and Leetmaa 2008.

7.3	Socialist housing construction in the agricultural centers of Tallinn’s metropolitan area (TMA) (Tabasalu). Photo by Kadri Leetmaa.

7.4	New construction and renovation in summer home settlements. Source: Summer Home Areas Survey, 2007.

7.5	Housing types in suburban area of migrants from Tallinn, 1989–2000. Based on data from the Estonian Statistical Office, 2000 and from Leetmaa and Tammaru, 2007: 136.

7.6	Merging new suburban settlements on the borders of Tallinn (Tiskre). Photo by Kadri Leetmaa.

7.7	New retail and service facilities on the edges of the city (Tallinn, Tabasalu roundabout). Photo by Kadri Leetmaa.

7.8	Annual residential building completions in Tallinn and its suburbs, 1993–2010 (m2). Based on data from the Estonian Building Register.

7.9	Annual nonresidential building completions in Tallinn and its suburbs, 1998–2009 (m2). Based on data from the Estonian Building Register.

7.10	Share of Tallinn in national residential and nonresidential building completions (apartment buildings, single-family houses and nonresidential buildings: % of m2 issued). Based on data from the Estonian Building Register.

7.11	Nonresidential building completions by type of nonresidential buildings in Tallinn and its suburbs, 1998–2009 (m2). Based on data from the Estonian Building Register.

8.1	Warsaw’s metropolitan area (WMA). Source: the authors.

8.2

Demographic changes. Based on publications by the Central Statistical Office. (a) Change in population (1988–2002; 1988 = 100). (b) Immigrants (1989–2002) as percentage of the total population change in 2002. (c) Population at post-working age (percentage change; 1988–2002). (d) People with higher education (percentage; 2002).

8.3

Housing changes. Based on publications by the Central Statistical Office. (a) Changes in the number of dwellings (1988–2006; 1988 = 100). (b) Changes in residential floor space (1988–2002; 1988 = 100). (c) Changes in residential floor space per person (1988–2002; in m2). (d) Dwellings with a water pipeline system (percentage change; 1988–2002).

8.4

Economic changes. Based on publications by the Central Statistical Office (national census results from 1988 and 2002) and on the Regional Data Bank. (a) Change in the number of enterprises (1995–2006; 1995 = 100). (b) Number of enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (2006). (c) Number of commercial companies with foreign capital participation (change in 1995–2006; 1995 = 100). (d) Population with non-agricultural sources of maintenance (change in percentage; 1988–2002).

8.5	Large-format stores and modern warehouses in Warsaw’s metropolitan area (WMA), outside Warsaw. Source: the authors.

8.6	Concentric zonal division of municipalities in Warsaw’s metropolitan area (WMA). Source: the authors.

9.1	Diagram of population density gradients in socialist, postsocialist, and western cities. Source: the authors.

9.2	Relative growth of urban and suburban population, 1991–2011. Source: data from national census statistics.

9.3	Relative growth of urban and suburban population by decade, 1991–2001 and 2001–2011. Source: data from national census statistics.

9.4	Proportion of metropolitan population residing outside central cities, 1991, 2001, and 2011. Source: data...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.11.2014
• Reihe/Serie: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Anthropogeographie • Architecture • Architektur • Central • Collapse • communist • controversial • Countries • Dispersal • dramatic • ensuing • Former • frenetic • Geographie • Geography • growth • Human geography • important • metropolitan • Period • postsocialist • processes • rearrangement • Regime • Socialist • Sociology • Soziologie • space • Spatial • Stadtentwicklung • Stadtsoziologie • Transformation • Urban • Urban Development • Urban sociology
• ISBN-10: 1-118-29588-9 / 1118295889
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-29588-5 / 9781118295885