Residential Change and Demographic Challenge: The Inner City of East Central Europe in the 21st Century

Going beyond the assumption that Eastern and East Central European cities are still 'in transition' this book draws on the post socialism paradigm to ask new questions about the impact of demographic changes on residential developments in this region. Focussing on the second cities in the regions, it examines Gdansk and Loacute;dz in Poland and Brno and Ostrava in the Czech Republic as examples and deals with the nexus between urban development and demographic change for the context of East Central European cities and provides a framework for linking urban and demographic research. It discusses how residential areas and urban developments cope with changes in population decline and household types due to migration and goes on to explore parallels and differences in comparison with broader European patterns. This book will be useful to academics of urban planning and development (in transition areas), Central and Eastern European studies, demographics and population studies, and sociology/social exclusion.