Twenty-five years of humanising post-socialist housing estates:
From quantitative needs to qualitative requirements

J 2015

Twenty-five years of humanising post-socialist housing estates: From quantitative needs to qualitative requirements

ŠIMÁČEK, Petr, Zdeněk SZCZYRBA, Ivan ANDRÁŠKO and Josef KUNC

Basic information

Original name

Twenty-five years of humanising post-socialist housing estates: From quantitative needs to qualitative requirements

Name in Czech

25 let humanizace postsocialistických sídlišť: od kvantitativních potřeb k požadavkům kvality

Authors

ŠIMÁČEK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Zdeněk SZCZYRBA (203 Czech Republic), Ivan ANDRÁŠKO (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Josef KUNC (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Geographia Polonica, Warsaw, Polish Academy of Science, 2015, 0016-7282

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10511 Environmental sciences

Country of publisher

Poland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14560/15:00085516

Organization unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0038

UT WoS

000410337800007

Keywords (in Czech)

humanizační procesy; postsocialistická sídliště; postsocialistická transformace; střední a východní Evropa

Keywords in English

humanisation processes; postsocialistic housing estates; postsocialistic transformation; Central and Eastern Europe

Abstract

V originále

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, CEE cities (as well as other cities in the former Socialist Bloc) experienced dynamic development in many areas. The presented article deals with one of the key areas of the post-socialist transformation of the city, specifically the humanisation of mass housing in large housing estates. These hous- ing estates from the central planning period still dominate the skyline of many CEE towns. At the beginning of the 1990s, housing estates suffered from a number of shortcomings that needed to be put right within the frame of their humanisation. The paper analyses a more than two decade-long process of housing estate humanisation which gradually led to the replacement of the monofunctional (strictly residential) model with a multifunctional model. This leads to improvement of civic amenities, implementation of new urban-archi- tectural solutions and the creation of new job opportunities. As a result, these changes increase the quality of life in housing estates, both from an objective and subjective point of view. Changes in the spatial, social, economic and physical structure of housing estates after 1989 will be analysed using examples from hierarchi- cally different locations in the Czech Republic. The synthesis of findings will be supplemented with the results of empirical studies that were carried out by geographers, sociologists and urban planners.

Links

MUNI/A/1197/2014, interní kód MU

Name: Hodnocení účelnosti rozvojových projektů - praktická aplikace a konceptualizace dosažených výseldků

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

ŠIMÁČEK, Petr, Zdeněk SZCZYRBA, Ivan ANDRÁŠKO and Josef KUNC. Twenty-five years of humanising post-socialist housing estates: From quantitative needs to qualitative requirements. Geographia Polonica. Warsaw: Polish Academy of Science, 2015, vol. 88, No 4, p. 649-668. ISSN 0016-7282. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0038.

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ŠIMÁČEK, Petr, Zdeněk SZCZYRBA, Ivan ANDRÁŠKO and Josef KUNC. Twenty-five years of humanising post-socialist housing estates: From quantitative needs to qualitative requirements. \textit{Geographia Polonica}. Warsaw: Polish Academy of Science, 2015, vol.~88, No~4, p.~649-668. ISSN~0016-7282. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0038.

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