The relevance of “Western” theoretical concepts for investigations of the margins of post-socialist cities: the case of Prague

Ouředníček, Martin

doi:10.1080/15387216.2016.1256786

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“…It might be surprising in some respects that after the Velvet Revolution many areas of new residential development were located in neighbourhoods that had previously been socially poor, in formerly neglected suburbs (Ouředníček 2007;Špačková and Ouředníček 2012) and inner-city working-class neighbourhoods (Ilík and Ouředníček 2007;Temelová 2007;Špačková and Sýkora 2017). A similar development was seen on housing estates (Ouředníček 2016;Špačková et al 2016), where several examples of new housing construction were realised on the edges of estates (Fig. 15.4).…”

Section: Post-transformation Developmentmentioning

confidence: 67%

“…However, since sociologist Jiří Musil and his colleagues wrote the famous Lidé a sídliště (People and Housing Estates) in 1985, no similar focused work has been published in Czechia 1 and only a few authors have subjected the question of housing estates in Prague to international debate (Temelová et al 2011;Temelová and Slezáková 2014;Ouředníček 2016). Others published only in the Czech language (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Long-term Development and Current Socio-Spatial Differentiation of Housing Estates in Prague, Czechia

Ouředníček

Špačková

Pospíšilová

2018

Housing Estates in Europe

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The housing estate is perceived to be one of the main symbols of the socialist regime in the former Eastern Bloc. Immediately after the Velvet Revolution, housing estates were to some extent rejected by the general public as well as neglected in spatial planning and policies. At the same time, Prague's housing estates contained more than 40% of the city's population, thus representing the most important part of the built environment within the city. The main aims of this chapter are to evaluate the specific development of Prague's housing estates in the second half of the twentieth century, and then to explore the finer details of their inherent socio-spatial differentiation. The role of state and local housing policy is evaluated as the crucial factor in the current and future development of housing estates. The results are similar to those for many other CEE cities, and confirm that the transformation period had little impact on social structures within these residential areas and that the social mix sustains the main attribute of Prague's housing estates. New housing construction and ethnic differentiation are the most important processes to have changed the social environment of housing estates in Prague during the post-transformation period.

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Section: Post-transformation Developmentmentioning

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Long-term Development and Current Socio-Spatial Differentiation of Housing Estates in Prague, Czechia

Ouředníček

Špačková

Pospíšilová

2018

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“…Others, however, such as Asher Ghertner (), counter that gentrification is contingent on the social and spatial relations of select Northern and Western cities. As such, treating it as a model for urban transformations elsewhere threatens to obscure the main mechanisms driving displacement throughout “much of the world”, from the global South to the global East (Ouředníček ).…”

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Deracinated Dispossessions: On the Foreclosures of “Gentrification” in Oakland,CA

McElroy

Werth

2019

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This paper challenges dominant geographies of urban theory by conceptualising the dynamics of displacement in Oakland through place‐specific histories of racial/spatial politics. It argues that the repeated transposition of a San Francisco‐based model of “tech gentrification” results in deracinated dispossessions, or accounts of displacement uprooted from grounded histories of racial violence and resistance. It also argues that, while urban scholars acknowledge the role of historical difference in contouring dispossessions in metropolitan versus postcolonial cities, this consideration should be broadened to account for the racial/colonial dimensions of urbanism in the US as well. Treating Oakland as a “crossroads of theory”, this paper joins calls for a deeper engagement between postcolonial urban studies and critical race and ethnic studies from North America. Drawing upon the authors’ activist and empirical work, it contends that “thinking from Oakland” demands a foregrounding of racial capitalism, policing, and refusal.

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“…This is one of the factors actively protecting social downgrading of housing stock in Prague and subsequent large-scale deprivation in housing estates. This is also why it is hard to find deprived parts of Prague´s housing estates (Kostelecký et al 2012;Ouředníček 2016;Špačková et al 2016). On the other hand, there are strong social problems in other parts of Czechia, and areas of social exclusion are often located within housing estates (Temelová et al 2011;Čada et al 2015).…”

Section: Post-transformation Developmentmentioning

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Housing Estates in Europe

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2018

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The relevance of “Western” theoretical concepts for investigations of the margins of post-socialist cities: the case of Prague

Cited by 53 publications

References 48 publications

Long-term Development and Current Socio-Spatial Differentiation of Housing Estates in Prague, Czechia

Long-term Development and Current Socio-Spatial Differentiation of Housing Estates in Prague, Czechia

Deracinated Dispossessions: On the Foreclosures of “Gentrification” in Oakland,CA

Housing Estates in Europe

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