The relevance of "western" theoretical concepts for the investigation of the margins of post-socialist cities: The case of Prague
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F16%3A10328568" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/16:10328568 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2016.1256786" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2016.1256786</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2016.1256786" target="_blank" >10.1080/15387216.2016.1256786</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The relevance of "western" theoretical concepts for the investigation of the margins of post-socialist cities: The case of Prague
Original language description
The exceptional dynamics of urban change in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries sparked an almost immediate revitalization of urban studies during the 1990s. In academia, this interest implied an urgent need to make use of theoretical concepts that would inform the description and interpretation of observed new social and spatial phenomena and processes. Consequently, developmentalism - the belief in the realignment of former socialist cities to their Western counterparts and in the gradual "correction" of their socialist character - became the dominant paradigm of urban studies throughout the 1990s in most CEE countries. A strong confidence in the explanatory and predictive function of theoretical concepts that functioned well in Western cities was typical of this period. However, more than two decades of post-socialist urban research have led to the recognition of the limited utility of some imported Western concepts. This paper documents these trends using the example of the outer areas of Czech (post-socialist) cities, which, having been shaped by socialist planning practice for decades, convinced many CEE urban scholars of the need to seek alternative theoretical concepts. It is hoped that this may create fertile ground for new ideas, which would be then exported as a part of wider and internationally more relevant urban theory.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
DE - Earth magnetism, geodesy, geography
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-00393S" target="_blank" >GA14-00393S: Dynamics of social environment and spatial mobility in metropolitan regions of the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Eurasian Geography and Economics
ISSN
1538-7216
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
online
Issue of the periodical within the volume
31.10.2016
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
1-20
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84995608063