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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1111/j.1468-0467.2007.00247.x
Titel (primär) Demographic change as a future challenge for cities in East Central Europe
Autor Steinführer, A.; Haase, A.
Quelle Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
Department SUSOZ
Band/Volume 89
Heft 2
Seite von 183
Seite bis 195
Sprache englisch
Keywords demographic change; urban development; inner city; East Central Europe
Abstract Contemporary cities in East Central Europe (ECE) represent a hybrid type of urban development which is still generally considered to be a special case and is only exceptionally referred to in the recently intensified debate over the European city. Our paper argues that such exclusion is short-sighted because ECE cities face structural problems similar to those of their Western pendants. Therefore, the contextual frame of urban research needs to be widened and can no longer be restricted to post-socialist transition. In this regard, one of the main challenges for future urban development will be the consequences of demographic change. Ageing, new patterns of fertility behaviour and more diversified household structures in line with the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) will have significant implications for urban structures and housing markets, as already known for Western Europe. The purpose of this paper is to work out new questions and hypotheses for future urban research with special respect to Polish and Czech cities. Besides West European experience, recent developments in eastern Germany are taken as a frame of reference, assuming that this specific transition case may, in many respects, be regarded as a forerunner for similar developments in its neighbouring countries.
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Steinführer, A., Haase, A. (2007):
Demographic change as a future challenge for cities in East Central Europe
Geogr. Ann. Ser. B-Human Geogr. 89 (2), 183 - 195