Shifting prominence of places and times: multiple centralities
of socialist Brno

J 2024

Shifting prominence of places and times: multiple centralities of socialist Brno

LICHTER, Marek and Ondřej MULÍČEK

Basic information

Original name

Shifting prominence of places and times: multiple centralities of socialist Brno

Authors

LICHTER, Marek (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Ondřej MULÍČEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024, 0965-4313

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50702 Urban studies

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.800 in 2022

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2024.2305187

UT WoS

001150738400001

Keywords in English

Urban centre; centrality; multiplicity; socialist city; Brno

Abstract

V originále

This paper aims to take a closer critical look at the multiple and multi-layered nature of urban centrality. Centrality is conceptualized here as a kind of prominence, perceived, planned and represented quality within the urban timespace. We employ three distinct ontological categories of the urban centre (centre-as-event, centre-as-thing and centre-as-structure) to take a deeper insight into the symbolism, ideological narratives and planning practices behind the genesis of the prominent urban places and times. With this approach, we expose even the seemingly subtle phenomena that (co-)shape multiple urban centralities. We are empirically focusing on the case of the city of Brno (Czech Republic). Attention is paid in particular to the period of socialism, more specifically to the influence of socialist ideology on the reorganization of urban central places and times. We are trying to overcome the traditional view of centralized and all-encompassing socialist transformation. Instead, the socialist Brno provides the case study to demonstrate a subtle fabric of overlapping, competing or simply coexisting socialist and pre-socialist centralities. We argue that the physical re-centralization of the city was in the end less significant than the efforts to symbolically recode the urban environment.

Links

GA20-13713S, research and development project

Name: Kompaktní a polycentrické urbánní formy: Konflikt prostorových imaginací?

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

LICHTER, Marek and Ondřej MULÍČEK. Shifting prominence of places and times: multiple centralities of socialist Brno. European Planning Studies. Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024, vol. 32, No 6, p. 1337-1354. ISSN 0965-4313. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2024.2305187.

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LICHTER, Marek and Ondřej MULÍČEK. Shifting prominence of places and times: multiple centralities of socialist Brno. \textit{European Planning Studies}. Taylor \&{} Francis Ltd, 2024, vol.~32, No~6, p.~1337-1354. ISSN~0965-4313. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2024.2305187.

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