Housing Estates in the Czech Republic after Socialism

Temelová, Jana; Novák, Jakub; Ouředníček, Martin; Puldová, Petra

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“…In large housing estates, ageing is the result of limited residential mobility, and, for that reason, the period in which an estate originated is signifi cant for the development of an estate community. The results of the analysis confi rmed the conclusions of research conducted in the post-socialist housing estates by other authors [Kabisch and Grossmann 2013;Temelová et al 2011], who found that the ageing process was the result of the distribution of fl ats to people in a selected age group when the estate was built. The ageing of the communities in the housing estates means that the infrastructure needs to be adjusted to the needs of the elderly-for example, by installing access lifts in fi ve-storey buildings or remodelling public services.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…The process of ageing of large housing estates was analysed in some comparative studies on European cities [Filius and van Kempen 2005;Dekker et al 2011] and on some Central and Eastern European cities [Kabisch and Grossmann 2013;Temelová and Slezáková 2014]. The ageing of estates relates to the time when estates were built and to the fact that estates fl ats were mainly assigned to young families [Kährik and Tammaru 2010;Temelová et al 2011;Kabisch and Grossmann 2013].…”

Section: Research On Large Housing Estates: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, most studies of large post-socialist housing estates have highlighted the maintenance of heterogeneity of residents and the relatively high social stability of large housing estates, fi ndings that were refl ected in surveys conducted in Tallinn [Kährik and Tammaru 2010], Leipzig [Kabisch and Grossmann 2013], Łódź [Marcińczak and Sagan 2011;Szafrańska 2010;2014], Kraków [Zborowski 2005], and Prague [Temelová et al 2011], along with St Petersburg, Budapest, Sofi a, Leipzig, and Vilnius [Brade, Herfert and Wiest 2012].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Large housing estates have also been analysed in terms of the changes resulting from the evolution of the estate's life cycle [Hirt and Stanilov 2007;Gentile and Sjöberg 2010;Temelová et al 2011;Temelová and Slezáková 2014]. Some studies have described the possible future directions of estate development in the Czech Republic [Špaček 2012; Šimáček et al 2015] or others have discussed the prospects for high-rise estates in Slovakia [Divinsky 2004] and Slovenia [Dimitrov ska Andrews and Cernic Mali 2004].…”

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The Social Transformation of Large Housing Estates in Poland at the Turn of the 21st Century

Gorczyca¹

2016

Czech Sociological Review

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Large housing estates make up an essential portion of the housing stock in the urban structure of Polish cities. It was expected that large housing estates in Poland might experience social decline in the 1990s, but several research projects conducted in the estates did not identify any increase in social degradation. This article examines the social structure of the residents of large housing estates in Poland and identifi es the main trends in current social changes. The time frame of ongoing transformations in the social structure was set around the turn of the 21st century. This analysis is based on Polish 1988 and 2002 National Census data, the Polish PESEL population database (2011), and the author's survey data (2010)(2011)(2012). Research was conducted in seven housing estates in fi ve Polish cities or towns (Poznań, Kraków, Tarnów, Dzierżoniów, and Żyrardów) and focused on analysing the sizes and types of households and their economic situation and the social structure of the estates. Results showed that large housing estates continue to have a heterogeneous social structure and to resist social deprivation processes. Depending on the period when a particular estate was built it is possible to observe distinctive features of housing estates, such as social structure renewal in housing estates from the 1950s and 1960s, residential ageing in those from the 1970s, and the risk of an exodus of young residents from estates from the 1980s. Those shared problems may soon become decisive for the future development of large estates.

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confidence: 82%

Section: Research On Large Housing Estates: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research On Large Housing Estates: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research On Large Housing Estates: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Social Transformation of Large Housing Estates in Poland at the Turn of the 21st Century

Gorczyca¹

2016

Czech Sociological Review

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“…Tradičně je mezi "nevyhraněnými" lokalitami (sociálně-prostorovými formacemi) věnována významná pozornost panelovým sídlištím, kde byl na základě srovnání s vývojem urbanisticky a architektonicky podobných čtvrtí v západní Evropě předpokládán rychlý úpadek -zhoršování fyzické-ho stavu a pokles sociálního statusu obyvatel. Empirické výzkumy sice ukazují určitý pokles sociálního statusu (zejména vzdělanosti) v agregátu sídlišť, zároveň však konstatují rozmanitost trajektorií sídlišť v různých městských a regionálních kontextech [Temelová et al 2011], a to jako možný důsledek kombinace řady ekonomických i kulturních faktorů [Špaček 2012].…”

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New Municipal Housing Construction, Decision-making, and Risks of Segregation: A Case Study in Rudoltice

Matoušek¹

2014

Czech Sociological Review

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Czech municipalities were given important responsibilities for housing policies during the post-communist transformation processes after 1989, which resulted in a diversifi cation of strategies. Rudoltice near Lanškroun in Pardubice is a specifi c case of a municipality that chose to prioritise extensive municipal housing construction. The municipality used government subsidies to construct a new neighbourhood called Zámeček, which, with its nearly 1000 inhabitants, caused the local population to double between 2006 and 2009. In this article, the author explores the roots of this large-scale project of municipal housing construction by specifi cally combining its national, regional, and local contexts. The local municipality's decisions and its ambitions and expectations for growth and prosperity were embedded in the micro-regional context of the successful economic transformation and development it had experienced since the 1990s and were made possible by changes in national housing policies and the devolution of policy decisions to the municipalities. Using the concept of (new) socio-spatial formation this article analyses the neighbourhood of Zámeček as a case of residential segregation. It argues that, even though its population is still relatively heterogeneous compared to other segregated localities in the Czechia, the neighbourhood is being shaped by an ongoing process of segregation. The specifi c supply of affordable housing in Zámeček meets a demand for housing from low income households in other regions where municipalities do not provide affordable housing.

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Modernist Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries: Formation, Current Challenges and Future Prospects

Hess

Tammaru

2019

The Urban Book Series

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This opening chapter of the book Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries: The Legacy of Central Planning in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania presents seven important takeaway messages distilled from the chapters of this volume that, taken together, provide a comprehensive overview of the formation, current challenges and future prospects of large housing estates in the Baltic countries. Modernist housing built between the 1960s and the early 1990s forms a large share of the housing stock in the capital cities of the Baltic states. Their sheer size suggests that various methods of reconstruction, rather than downsizing or even demolition, would be among the ideal strategies for their future development. Today, reconstruction of these districts and housing contained therein is mainly the responsibility of private owners, since the public sector relinquished most of the housing sector in the early 1990s. Private apartment owners, organised into building-based flat-owners' associations, often lack the ability to undertake comprehensive renovation of apartment buildings and regeneration of surrounding neighbourhoods. For viable solutions to emerge, the public sector must again assume a prominent role. A comprehensive renovation strategy must be structured to include urban space even larger than individual apartments or apartment buildings and encompass (a) improving the physical environment of the apartment buildings and neighbourhoods; (b) enhancing the social mobility and social integration of the inhabitants (since many possess an ethnic minority background); and (c) facilitating integrated connectivity between housing estates and surrounding metropolitan space through transport, jobs, services and various other activities.

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Housing Estates in the Czech Republic after Socialism

Cited by 99 publications

References 45 publications

The Social Transformation of Large Housing Estates in Poland at the Turn of the 21st Century

The Social Transformation of Large Housing Estates in Poland at the Turn of the 21st Century

New Municipal Housing Construction, Decision-making, and Risks of Segregation: A Case Study in Rudoltice

Modernist Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries: Formation, Current Challenges and Future Prospects

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