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Post-socialist Cities and the Urban Common Good - Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
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Post-socialist Cities and the Urban Common Good - Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Growth, Innovation and Change
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This book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in
Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. The question of common good
is fundamental to urban living; however, understanding of the term
varies depending on local contexts and conditions, particularly
complex in countries with experience of communism. In cities east
of the former Iron Curtain, the once ideologically imposed
principle of common good became gradually devalued throughout the
20th century due to the lack of citizen agency, only to reappear as
a response to the ills of neoliberal capitalism around the 2010s.
The book reveals how the idea of urban common good has been
reconstructed and practiced in European cities after socialism. It
documents the paradigm shift from city as a communal infrastructure
to city as a commodity, which lately has been challenged by the
approach to city as a commons. These transformations have been
traced and analysed within several urban themes: housing, public
transport, green infrastructure, public space, urban regeneration,
and spatial justice. A special focus is on the changes in the
public discourse in Poland and the perspectives of key urban
stakeholders in three case-study cities of Gdansk, Krakow, and
Lodz. The findings point to the need for drawing from best
practices of the socialist legacy, with its celebration of the
common. At the same time, they call for learning from the mistakes
of the recent past, in which the opportunity for citizen
empowerment has been unseized. The book is intended for
researchers, academics, and postgraduates, as well as practitioners
and anyone interested in rediscovering the inherent potential of
urban commonality. It will appeal to those working in human
geography, spatial planning, and other areas of urban studies.
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