L’Europe centrale et orientale au sein des réseaux mondialisés de l’économie-monde : quelle intégration interne ?

The post-socialist cities from Central and Eastern Europe: Between spatial growth and demographic decline

“…Many of these cities experienced a sustained boom during the socialist era, but quickly fell behind after the demise of communism, as most of them hosted industries which found limited markets in a more integrated capitalist world. In most situations, the closeness of the trajectories is attributable to the economic weight that cities have in the urban hierarchy (Zdanowska, 2018). Cities with a higher built-up area growth rate have been able to either move towards tertiarization and the development of other competitive urban functions (e.g.…”