The Challenge of Postsocialist Suburbanization

Confronting Suburbanization: Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe

Volumn 9781405185486, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-32

  Sýkora, Luděk ^a   Stanilov, Kiril ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; Neoliberal ideology; Postsocialist metropolitan areas; Postsocialist suburbanization; Socioeconomic order

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE; LAY-OUT; METROPOLITAN AREA; NEOLIBERAL IDEOLOGY; POSTSOCIALIST METROPOLITAN AREA; POSTSOCIALIST SUBURBANIZATION; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC ORDER; STRUCTURAL FORCES; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

EID: 84927794842     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118295861.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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