Editorial: In search of the post-socialist urban geography. How do we see the post-socialist city today?

Ilchenko, Mikhail; Dushkova, Diana

doi:10.4000/belgeo.31467

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“…Does it fade like a comet's tail, progressively blending its debris with a new milieu? And how do we spot the end of something that is also an ending (Ilchenko and Dushkova, 2018)?…”

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Keeping you post-ed: Space-time regimes, metaphors, and post-apartheid

Houssay-Holzschuch

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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Societies that have undergone systemic change are characterized as ‘post’—post-socialist, post-colonial, etc.—to encapsulate the impact the past still has on their structure and functioning. Research on these societies has therefore tended to adopt a mostly temporal approach, investigating the tension between continuity and change. Using the example of post-apartheid South Africa, I make a case for a more balanced approach to post situations by including space as equally valuable. I draw my theoretical inspiration from Hartog’s notion of regimes of historicity and Massey’s space-time to argue that we should investigate space-time regimes. I show that a space-time regime of entanglement, often passéist, with blurred temporal boundaries and messy, place-bound experiences of time, characterizes post situations. Finally, using South Africa as my empirical grounding, I offer a set of metaphors to describe and analyze the concrete places that this entangled, post space-time produces.

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“…Does it fade like a comet's tail, progressively blending its debris with a new milieu? And how do we spot the end of something that is also an ending (Ilchenko and Dushkova, 2018)?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Keeping you post-ed: Space-time regimes, metaphors, and post-apartheid

Houssay-Holzschuch

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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“…In the process of transformation, there was significant pressure from investors to build technology parks, shopping and logistics centres, transport infrastructure and also the construction of housing complexes and the necessary infrastructure. Spontaneous development, various land use transformations, new shopping centres, industrial parks and logistics centres, emerging neighbourhoods and recreational areas: all of this has profoundly changed not only their functionality but also the cities' look, [2]. Currently, the intensive development of some functions (housing, services, industry) contributes to the weakening of other functions (arable area, afforestation).…”

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The Impacts of Urbanisation on Landscape and Environment: The Case of Slovakia

2021

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The development of urbanisation is linked to qualitative and quantitative changes in the landscape and its components aimed at strengthening economic, administrative and cultural-social functions, which are associated with ever-increasing pressures on ecosystems and their individual components. These pressures are subject to various factors—socio-economic, political, environ-mental, etc. In this paper, we present an evaluation of the environmental impacts of the development of urbanisation in Slovakia. Independent Slovakia belongs to the young European states. The communist period lasted from 1948 to 1989. The character of landscape, the quality of the environment and also the degree of anthropisation of territory were dependent on a centrally managed economy. Urbanisation changes began to manifest themselves rapidly after 2000, when the economy was transformed and Slovakia was preparing to join the European Union (Slovakia joined the European Union in 2004). The transformation from central planning into a market economy was the basis of the changes, which was conditioned following strong pressure of investors on the landscape, the construction of technological parks, shopping and logistics centres and transport infrastructure and the construction of residential complexes. According to the European Environment Agency’s study on urban sprawl between the mid-1950s and the end of the 1990s, industry, commercial and transport services have grown at a significant rate and the residential areas at a moderate rate in Slovakia. On the other hand, Slovakia has areas where urbanisation has the opposite trend. Rural settlements are abandoned as well as large areas of agricultural land. The character of land use has fundamentally changed over the past 20 years. These changes not only have a spatial dimension but are associated with the emergence of various environmental problems. The paper deals with the impacts of anthropisation and industrialisation of Slovakia after 2000. The anthropisation process in Slovakia was determined through data processed in GIS and also through the statistical data representing land use. Based on the ecological significance of land use elements, the degree of anthropisation in Slovakiawas calculated.

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