Locked-in post-socialism: rolling path dependencies in Liberec's district heating system

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F16%3A10328799" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/16:10328799 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2016.1250224" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2016.1250224</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Locked-in post-socialism: rolling path dependencies in Liberec's district heating system
Original language description
This paper uses the experience of post-socialist district heating reforms to tell a broader story about the continued and shared challenges that central and eastern European cities face as they grapple with the legacies of the recent and more distant past. We argue that the restructuring of this infrastructural domain has been contingent upon geographically embedded trajectories stemming from previous historical periods, while leading to the creation of new socio-technical lock-ins. The paper thus develops the notion of "rolling path-dependencies" in order to explore how post-socialist developments both overcome and supplant previous trajectories of transformation. It focuses on the northern Czech town of Liberec - a place that is known for having some of the highest heating prices in the country - to elucidate how a socially, economically, and environmentally detrimental lock-in has come into existence as a result of illconceived policies of marketization, municipalization, and privatization. Using evidence from official documents and interviews with policy-makers, we demonstrate how the infrastructural legacies of post-socialism both persist and are being reproduced at the urban scale even within "advanced" reforming states like Czechia.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP404%2F12%2F0648" target="_blank" >GAP404/12/0648: New socio-spatial formations: segregation in the context of post-communist transformations and globalization</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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