Title & Author:

Social change and urban restructuring in Central Europe / edited by György Enyedi ; [transl. from the Hungarian by Nicholas Parsons, Peter Tamasi].

Publication:

Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó, ©1998.

Description:

287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transformation in Central European postsocialist cities / György Enyedi -- Local government in postsocialist cities / Robert J. Bennett -- Social polarisation in postsocialist cities : Budapest, Prague and Warsaw / Grzegorz Węcławowicz -- Class, ethnicity and urban restructuring in postcommunist Hungary / János Ladányi and Iván Szelényi -- International migrants in Central European cities / Dušan Drbohlav and Zdeněk Čermák -- Commercial property development in Budapest, Prague and Warsaw / Luděk Sýkora -- Towards new models of the housing system / József Hegedüs and Iván Tosics -- "Socialist" cities (new towns) in the postsocialist era / Viktória Szirmai -- Industrial restructuring or deindustrialisation? / Györgyi Barta -- Aesthetic aspects of change in urban space in Prague and Budapest during the transition / Ilona Sármány-Parsons -- Border regions and trans-border co-operation : the case of Poland / Marek Potrykowski -- Vienna, Bratislava, Győr : a potential Euroregion / J. Rechnitzer and M. Döményová.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Geographers and regional scholars contribute both thematic essays about the region generally or case studies. Their topics include local government in post-socialist cities; class, ethnicity, and urban restructuring in post-communist Hungary; commercial property development in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw, new models of the housing system, aesthetic aspects of change in urban space in Prague and Budapest during the transition; and border regions and trans-border cooperation, the case of Poland. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

ISBN:

9630574969
9789630574969

Subject:

Cities and towns Europe, Central Congresses.
Social change Europe, Central Congresses.
Regional planning Europe, Central Congresses.
Villes Europe centrale Congrès.
Aménagement du territoire Europe centrale Congrès.
Cities and towns.
Regional planning.
Social change.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Regionale ontwikkeling.
Central Europe.

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Enyedi, György.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204793
Call No.: HT145 .C36 S6 1998
Status: Available