The changing environment and neighbourhood satisfaction in socialist high-rise panel housing estates: The time-comparative perceptions of elderly residents in Prague

Patterns of activities among Cracow’s young retirees in an urban environment(an example of cluster analysis)

“…Despite the increasing relevance of social proximity, the spatial dimension of ageing has not been thoroughly addressed by research yet - except when dealing with a specific architectural project for "housing for the elderly" and well-being of elderly in a given environment (Carp & Carp 1984;Altman & Low 1992;Bonvalet & Ogg 2008;Temelová & Slezáková 2014). In critical urban research social, economic, physical as well as spatial structures of neighbourhoods and cities are understood as being in constant change and producing relational spatial structure (Hague & Jenkins 2005;Haase 2011;Temelová & Slezáková 2014).…”

“…In critical urban research social, economic, physical as well as spatial structures of neighbourhoods and cities are understood as being in constant change and producing relational spatial structure (Hague & Jenkins 2005;Haase 2011;Temelová & Slezáková 2014). Such spaces are understood not only as being the results of human actions, but also as mirroring social relations and being influenced by the wide scope of human action (Harvey 2008).…”

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

“…The demographic aspects have been taken into account in studies of large housing estates in post-socialist countries primarily in the context of the ageing of estates. 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].…”

“…The residential ageing process has also been analysed in terms of the satisfaction with the place of residence expressed by elderly residents, who constitute an essential group who display a high degree of residential satisfaction, as they are both satisfi ed with their housing conditions and have an attachment to the area they live in, which inludes a network of highly valued social contacts [Filius and van Kempen 2005]. The elderly represent a relatively attached and stable segment of housing-estate populations and they are potentially important agents of local community building [Temelová and Slezáková 2014]. The changes occurring in the households' social structures can also contribute to the improvement of housing conditions, a point that was highlighted in the surveys of housing estates conducted in Bucharest, where a large proportion of the elderly lived in relatively spacious fl ats as a result of demographic processes: at some point their children had moved out [Gentile and Marcińczak 2014].…”

“…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].…”