Maja Grabkowska

Post-socialist Cities and the Urban Common Good (eBook, ePUB)

Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000786385
• Artikelnr.: 66423864

Autorenporträt

Maja Grabkowska is a human geographer and Assistant Professor at the Department of Socio-Economic Geography, University of Gdansk, Poland. She authored and co-authored research publications on post-socialist urban regeneration, gentrification, and grassroot initiatives, including a book titled Regeneration of the Post-socialist Inner City: Social Change and Bottom-up Transformations in Gdansk (2012). She is also a co-founder of Sopocka Inicjatywa Rozwojowa, an informal citizen group in Sopot, Poland, advocating participatory democracy and sustainable development at the local level.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: Urban common good before and after 1989 in theory and practice 1. The city and the common good: in search of a common ground Commonality in the city What makes the urban common good? The neoliberal imprint: city as a commodity versus city as a commons Post-socialist geographies of urban common good 2. Transforming conceptions of urban common good in Central and Eastern Europe Urban common good during and after socialism City as a communal infrastructure: the rise and demise of the socialist urban utopia City as a commodity: privatisation and appropriation of the common since 1989 City as a commons: return to the idea(l) of urban common good in the mid-2010s PART II: Commoning the post-socialist city: evidence from Poland 3. Towards the city as a commons: the changing public discourse in Poland between 1989 and 2019 Discourse analysis as a key to understanding urban change in Poland after socialism Occasional and unassuming: legal notions of urban common good Unravelling of the urban common good in the print media Embracement of the urban common(s) in academic research 4. Interpretations of common good by urban actors in Gdäsk, Kraków and
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Selection and overview of the case-study cities Interviewing urban stakeholders in Gdäsk, Kraków and
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The post-socialist urban common good unpacked Going back to the obvious'?: the forging of urban common good in concrete narratives 5. (Re)making of the urban common good in a post-socialist city