Rethinking the post-socialist city

Kinossian, Nadir

doi:10.1080/02723638.2022.2102332

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“…Contributions following this perspective have, consequently, called for more reflection on the limited applicability of 'Western' concepts to post-socialist cities (see Kinossian, 2022), or suggested linking post-socialist research agenda more closely with that originating from the 'South' (Galuszka, 2022). While this line of argument has become increasingly popular, new doubt has also been raised.…”

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Suburbanisation in East Germany

Bernt,

Volkmann

2024

Urban Studies

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Rampant suburbanisation is one of the most visible changes evidenced in cities throughout Central and Eastern Europe in the past three decades. In this paper, we analyse how suburbanisation unfolded in East Germany after reunification. We do this against the background of ongoing debates about the usefulness and meaning of the term post-socialism that have questioned the self-enclosed spatiality of the concept and suggest giving the concept of neoliberalisation a more central role in analysing the changes experienced in this part of the world. We show that the suburbanisation process in East Germany rested on three neoliberal policy orientations: (1) extensive investment stimuli for the construction of new rental housing, (2) promotion of home ownership and (3) the privileging of suburban locations through planning gaps. Since all these policies are based on neoliberal ideas, we argue that neoliberalisation and post-socialist reform agendas have appeared as two sides of the same coin. Against this background, we advocate putting the developments that came after socialism at the centre of the research and call for a new generation of studies on post-socialist neoliberalisation.

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Suburbanisation in East Germany

Bernt,

Volkmann

2024

Urban Studies

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“…What really unites urban areas in the former Eastern Bloc are also non-post-socialist features: Western-born urban managerialism and neoliberalism (Harvey, 1989;Kinossian, 2022;Peck et al, 2009); contemporary conspiracy theories influencing urban policy (S. Fainstein & Novy, 2023); and various other phenomena of a more global nature that can be found in virtually any urban context (Robinson, 2005(Robinson, , 2022, such as the financialisation of housing, the privatisation of commons, global warming, etc. The correct identification of processes that are not necessarily unique to the post-socialist urban world or its individual parts is important for understanding the processes and events related to contemporary urbanisation.…”

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Totalitarian Flower Pavilion: The Dubious Post-Socialist Legacy of Contemporary Eastern European Cities

Drozda

2024

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More than three decades after the collapse of state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, local urban processes are still very often associated with that historic period or post-socialist transformation. This article aims to undermine the concept of the post-socialist city itself as reductionist, given the crucial importance of factors that differ from the influence of the pre-1989/91 times. The article confronts the discussion on the applicability of the post-socialist framework with field research conducted in selected Polish and Ukrainian cities, in particular the examples of the Kvity Ukrainy (Flowers of Ukraine) protest movement in Kyiv, Ukraine, and the 2003 spatial planning reform’s results in Krakow, Poland. The analysis is based on interviews with representatives of different actors involved in the policymaking process, such as local government representatives, policy advisors, urban planners, journalists, business circles, and members of grassroots initiatives.

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“…Unlike in other countries, the transformations of urban systems and spatial distribution of population in Post-Soviet states are very much driven by deep changes in other political, socio-economic, institutional, and other spheres rather than demographic processes. Studying complex relationships between the spatial and the social in post-communist cities requires a more holistic view of transition as a triad of democratization, marketization, and state-building, as well as the interplay of these factors in explaining urban dynamics (Kinossian, 2017). It should be admitted that urbanization and major agglomerations are also gaining importance for governments of former Soviet states.…”

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Transformations of Urban System: Case of Kazakhstan From 1979 to 2022

MAKHANOV

2023

ERJ

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This study analyzes the transformation of the urban system in Kazakhstan from 1979 to 2022 by studying the interrelationship between population change in large cities and demographic trends in nearby towns and rural areas. The findings suggest that the collapse of the USSR triggered a large-scale spatial realignment of the population leading to dramatic changes in the population size of urban settlements. The estimations largely failed to confirm relationships between the growth of large cities vs population change in mid-size and small urban settlements that would hold throughout the entire sample period. However, the analysis of district-level data showed that remote and rural areas were more prone to depopulation while districts around rapidly growing large cities had significantly higher rates of population growth. The population in large cities and regional centers was found to be growing much faster than in periphery areas, which is very much in line with findings from studies done on other former Soviet states.

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Rethinking the post-socialist city

Cited by 16 publications

References 43 publications

Suburbanisation in East Germany

Suburbanisation in East Germany

Totalitarian Flower Pavilion: The Dubious Post-Socialist Legacy of Contemporary Eastern European Cities

Soviet and Post-Soviet Transformations of Urban System: Case of Kazakhstan From 1979 to 2022

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