What attracts people to inner city areas? The cases of two post-socialist cities in Estonia and the Czech Republic

Urban Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 355-372

  Kährik, Anneli ^a,b   Temelová, Jana ^b,c   Kadarik, Kati ^a   Kubeš, Jan ^d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

housing and neighbourhood choice; inner cities; post socialist cities; residential mobility; second tier cities

Indexed keywords

HOUSING CONDITIONS; INNER CITY AREA; NEIGHBORHOOD; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIALISM; TYPOLOGY;

CZECH REPUBLIC; ESTONIA; TARTU;

EID: 84953338818     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098014567444     Document Type: Article

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