“East meets West” – on studying “Eastern” housing estates through “Western” concepts and approaches

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/udi-2018-0001" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/udi-2018-0001</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/udi-2018-0001" target="_blank" >10.2478/udi-2018-0001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

“East meets West” – on studying “Eastern” housing estates through “Western” concepts and approaches

Original language description

This paper is directly associated with the international conference “East meets West – contemporary urban issues revisited”. The main objective of the paper is to provide readers with ideas related to the possibility of studying the “Eastern” (post-socialist) housing estates through selected “Western” concepts including representation, symbolism, everydayness/everyday life and the complexity of relations including the materiality or socio-technical configuration of places. The paper consists of three main sections: in the introductory section, basic information and knowledge regarding (large) housing estates are concisely presented and discussed. By means of illustrative examples, the second main section of the paper covers a brief presentation of selected “Western” concepts. The final section focuses on the discussion of the concepts’ usefulness and of the methods through which they can be utilised. The main ideas and conclusions resulting from this paper can be stated as follows: - particular housing estates in CEE countries find themselves in a common, yet at the same time always in one way or another specific and individual “post-socialist situation”; - to understand the situation of a particular housing estate means to understand the structural influences as well as the agency of particular (local) actors, either human or non-human; - housing estates can be seen as dynamic, ever-changing socio-technical-spatial formations constantly passing through a continuous process of (re) production by various forces/actors and (power) relations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50702 - Urban studies (planning and development)

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Urban Development Issues

ISSN

2544-624X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

55

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

3-18

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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