This book focuses on the spatial transformations in the most dynamically evolving urban areas of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe, linking the restructuring of the built environment with the underlying processes and forces of socio-economic reforms. We hope that the detailed accounts of the spatial transformations in a key moment of urban history in the region will enhance our understanding of the linkages between society and space, adding to the knowledge that is needed for resolving the difficult challenges facing cities throughout the globe in the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Contents:
Introduction: Postwar Growth and Suburban Development Patterns. Part 1. The Changing Form of Suburbs. Introduction 1. Community, Modernity, and Urban Change in Japan and the USA: Toyokawa and Cupertino in the Late Twentieth Century 2. Complexity and Contradiction in the Ageing Early Postwar Suburbs of Québec City 3. Morphological Diversity in the Squatter Settlements of Rio de Janeiro. Part 2. Understanding the Elements and the Patterns. Introduction 4. Making a Metropolitan Landscape: Lyons 1812-1994 5. Radial Street as a Timeline. Part 3. The Effect of Planning. Introduction 6. Transformations of Space: A Retrospective on Public Housing in Singapore 7. Building Types and Urban Fabric of Rome's Outer Suburbs: From Reading to Planning 8. Planning for Sprawl: The Evolution of a Regional Shopping Center. Part 4. The Reconstruction of the Suburbs. Introduction 9. The Transformation of Large Postwar Housing Areas in Sweden - Adaptation to a Blend of New and Old Planning Ideas 10. Suburban Morphology and Portland's Urban Growth Boundary 11. Conserving the Suburb: Mechanisms, Tensions and Results. Index.

This book focuses on the spatial transformations in the most dynamically evolving urban areas of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. It links the restructuring of the built environment with the underlying processes and the forces of socio-economic reforms. The detailed accounts of the spatial transformations in a key moment of urban history in the region enhance our understanding of the linkages between society and space.