scholarly journals A kelet-közép-európai városrégiók átalakulása a posztfordi korban – elméleti alapok

2021 ◽  
Vol 145 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-368
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The City

The post-Fordist and post-socialist transition had a significant impact on the development of cities in East Central Europe. One of the most spectacular processes in the development of postsocialist cities has been the transformation of the inner areas and outskirts of the urban regions. In the inner areas, after the regime change, urban regeneration gained momentum and thanks to the prevailing neoliberal urban policies almost without exception triggered gentrification processes in the neighbourhoods. Outside the administrative boundaries of the city, in the agglomeration zone and in the more remote areas of the urban region, suburbanisation and urban sprawl have determined the development process. As a consequence, the previously compact urban fabric of post-socialist cities slowly disintegrated and cities became more and more fragmented. The aim of this theoretical study is to explore the most important processes of urban transformation in the post-Fordist era. We briefly introduce the theoretical background of metropoliszation, suburbanization and urban sprawl, as well as the main characteristics of commuting and land use. The role of urban regeneration and fragmentation in the urban fabric will be highlighted as well.

scholarly journals The Kidnapping of Wroclaw’s Dwarves

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 743-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Cervinkova
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Symbolic Politics ◽  
Historical Legacy ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Promotional Strategy ◽  
Critical Action ◽  
Neoliberal Restructuring ◽  
The City

In this paper, I draw on the approach to the study of “actually existing liberalisms” with an example from contemporary urban east-central Europe. I focus on the city of Wroclaw, a success story of Poland’s economic urban transformation, and consider the symbolic politics embodied in the city’s promotional strategy as a tool of ongoing neoliberal restructuring. I argue that an important feature of the city’s symbolic politics is the commodification and fetishization of dwarves, the historical symbols of an antitotalitarian movement that used the image of a dwarf as a means for people’s deliberative and performative action that helped lay foundations for democracy. Today, the historical legacy of dwarves as a means of associational and performative action has been disguised in the city’s promotional strategy, which has turned dwarves into commodities that help sell the city on the global neoliberal market of intercity competition. I call this process of contemporary fetishization, the kidnapping of Wroclaw’s dwarves. Kidnapping refers to the process whereby the symbol’s meaning and historical legacy is turned into a commodity, disempowering it by depriving it of its meaning for social action. At the conclusion of my paper, I offer a critical ethnographic and pedagogical perspective focused on symbolic politics as a venue for understanding and inspiring critical action in the context of these urban neoliberal developments.

scholarly journals Land Use/Cover Change Detection and Urban Sprawl Analysis in Bandar Abbas City, Iran

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Dadras ◽  
Helmi Zulhaidi Mohd Shafri ◽  
Noordin Ahmad ◽  
Biswajeet Pradhan ◽  
Sahabeh Safarpour
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
Aerial Photos ◽  
Bandar Abbas ◽  
The City

The process of land use change and urban sprawl has been considered as a prominent characteristic of urban development. This study aims to investigate urban growth process in Bandar Abbas city, Iran, focusing on urban sprawl and land use change during 1956–2012. To calculate urban sprawl and land use changes, aerial photos and satellite images are utilized in different time spans. The results demonstrate that urban region area has changed from 403.77 to 4959.59 hectares between 1956 and 2012. Moreover, the population has increased more than 30 times in last six decades. The major part of population growth is related to migration from other parts the country to Bandar Abbas city. Considering the speed of urban sprawl growth rate, the scale and the role of the city have changed from medium and regional to large scale and transregional. Due to natural and structural limitations, more than 80% of barren lands, stone cliffs, beach zone, and agricultural lands are occupied by built-up areas. Our results revealed that the irregular expansion of Bandar Abbas city must be controlled so that sustainable development could be achieved.

Constitutions, EU Law and Judicial Strategies in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCIN MATCZAK ◽  
MATYAS BENCZE ◽  
ZDENEK KÜHN
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
East Central ◽  
Institutional Effects ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Rule Approach ◽  
General Principles Of Law

AbstractGiven far-reaching changes in the legal systems of East Central Europe since the mid-1990s, one might expect administrative court judges to have modified the way in which they decide cases, in particular by embracing less formalistic adjudication strategies. Relying on an original dataset of over one thousand business-related cases from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, this article shows that – despite some variation across countries and time – judges have largely failed to respond to the incentives contained in the new constitutional frameworks. They continue to adopt the most-locally-applicable-rule approach and are reluctant to apply general principles of law or to rely on Dworkinian ‘policies’ in deciding hard cases. The analysis links these weak institutional effects to the role of constitutional courts, case overload and educational legacies.

scholarly journals Urban Regeneration Projects Bound to Water, along and towards the Tagus Estuary (Portugal)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6578
Author(s):  
Caterina Anastasia
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Tagus Estuary ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
The North ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
The City ◽  
North And South ◽  
Hydrographic Network

Water is becoming a support for landscape and urban projects in a densely urbanised area settled along the Tagus Estuary, dubbed the City of the Tagus Estuary (CTE). Analysing two recent projects along and towards the Tagus Estuary hydrographic network, this article highlights how the most evident limit (the water) can function as the strongest binder, natural link, and shared public space of the CTE. Located, respectively, on the north and south banks of the estuary, the analysed projects become a way to think about urban strategies and promotions that use water as a way to build (re-build or reformulate) the image of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Today, open spaces bound to waterlines support an appealing and winning urban regeneration formula. Our goal is to understand what kind of role water is called to play with regard to the CTE. We ask: is the water called to play merely the role of building a new image of the city as a ground for investors? Is water the way to build a green and habitable CTE? This article concludes that the analysed projects contribute (as expected) to the promotion of the surrounding areas and propose appropriate solutions while occasionally overcoming the current local urban planning.

Reforming Regional Governance in East Central Europe: Europeanization or Domestic Politics as Usual?

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conor O’Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
East Central ◽  
East Central European

In recent years, a number of East Central European (ECE) governments have undertaken to radically alter the territorial structures of their public administration. Some have suggested that this development represents the growing Europeanization of ECE politics, in particular the role of the European Union. This article questions that view by examining the crucial role of domestic party politics in the enactment and implementation of regional governance reform. It does so through a close comparison of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

scholarly journals Las distintas vidas de un edificio. El Palacio de Don antonio de Mendoza

2020 ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Antonio Miguel Trallero Sanz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Prime Exponent

<p>The appearance of buildings is the result of a historical process that has left its imprint on them in at all its stages, particularly when this process has involved a constant change of uses, entailing continuous refurbishments and extensions. The building studied here is unusual in that it is the result of contributions by three major architects in the history of Spanish architecture: Lorenzo Vázquez, who introduced the Renaissance into Spain; Alonso de Covarrubias, one of its leading architects, and Ricardo Velázquez Bosco, perhaps the prime exponent of Spanish eclecticism. Their work, and that of others, mainly linked to the uses to which the building has been put, have created the structure as it stands today. This paper provides an overview of its history, how it has been enriched and how it has suffered irreparable losses, and examines how those changes led to the constant urban transformation of the surrounding area, in the urban fabric of the city.</p>

scholarly journals Bringing creative economy to community resilience towards better urban governance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prihadi Nugroho ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
The City

As a growing metropolis in the north coast Java region, Semarang City has been transforming from a port city to a multifunctioning city. Mercantilism tradition has brought forward the local economy into trade and service dominance, shifting the city to become an important marketplace beyond the peripheral boundaries. Interestingly, the city’s urbanisation growth does not follow ‘a common trend’ in Indonesia (and many parts of the world) characterized by modernized urban fabrics with mixed land use. The city is suffered from fragmented physical urban transformation and separated formal and informal economy. The urban sprawling forces are scattered around the city outskirt while the inner city’s development filled up by discontinued commercial properties. On the other hand, there is ‘a new direction’ of urban movement based on the bottom-up kampong revitalisation. Instead of encouraging more modernized physical and economic space, these kampong settlements have proposed creative economy from below useful to (re- )organising the economic space of the urban region. This paper aims to examine how the recent urban transformation in Semarang City has been fuelled by creative economy activities through which the kampong settlements promote local community resilience. Desk study method accompanied by focus group discussions and field observations is completed in pursuit of data collection and analysis. The primary data source is taken from the Local Development Planning Authority project on creative kampong development since 2016. The preliminary results show that kampong-based creative economy movement at the urban scale is beneficial to enhancing the informal economy and urban settlement development. Participatory governance has been strengthened following income generation in situ even though their contribution to community resilience in the long-term still requires further explorations.

scholarly journals Krajobraz w czasach populizmu i postprawdy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Böhm
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Landscape Fragmentation ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Spatial Order ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Urban Planner ◽  
The City

An impressive collection of texts written by one of the most eminent Polish landscape architecture experts. The author describes, among others, temptations to create landscape, fragmentation of space, crystallization of the city form, intricacies of social participation, profitability of spatial order, Polish tradition of urban sprawl, protection and creation of beauty in human environment, participation of elites in development of mountainous terrains, good and bad landscape identity, consequences of populism and post-truth, the role of an urban planner as a representative of unwanted public confidence and the figure of professor Gerard Ciołek.

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