Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cudny, Waldemar; Kunc, Josef

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents multidimensional socio-economic transformations taking place in the post-socialist cities located in selected countries of the Central European region. It will be valuable to undergraduate and postgraduate students in human geography, urban studies, economy, and city marketing, especially with an interesting in Central Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000514667
• Artikelnr.: 63072431

Autorenporträt

Waldemar Cudny is an Associate Professor at The University of Lodz, Faculty of Geographical Sciences (Poland). He specialises in urban, tourism geography, and event studies. His publications include such books as City Branding and Promotion: The Strategic Approach (Routledge, 2019) and Urban Events, Place branding and Promotion. Place Event Marketing (Routledge, 2020). Josef Kunc, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Brno, Czech Republic. He specialises in the transformation of the current socio-economic and spatial environment of cities and regions, consumer preferences, shopping behaviour, and retail management as well as special interest tourism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Post-socialist urban change and its spatial patterns - the case of Nitra 3. The University as the creative hub - the city of Olomouc after 1989 4. In the shadow of Karl Marx: The case of Chemnitz and its multiple transitions 5. Young people's life plans and their impact on the demographic future of a shrinking city - Kielce case study 6. Manufacturing in the Post-Industrial City: The Role of a "Hidden Sector" in the Development of Pécs, Hungary 7. Socioeconomic development in Bratislava during post-socialism 8. Brno in transition: From industrial legacy towards modern urban environment 9. Challenges and Problems of Re-growth: The Case of Leipzig (Eastern Germany) 10. Lódz - a multidimensional transition from an industrial center to a post-socialist city 11. The socio-economic transformation of the Katowice conurbation in Poland 12. Population ageing processes in towns and cities situated in peripheral areas. An example of urban centres in Eastern Poland 13. Conlcusions