Česká panelová sídliště: faktory stability a budoucího vývoje

• Authors: Ondřej Špaček

Title variants

EN

Czech housing estates: factors of stability and future development

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Housing estates are one of the most important legacies of the social- ist regime and continue to infl uence the shape of Czech towns even today. Despite pessimistic predictions about their future in the early 1990s, they are still a widespread and valued type of housing. This article, unlike other pri- marily economically oriented studies, analyses the situation and possible fu- ture development of Czech housing states by combining three theoretical per- spectives from urban sociology: social ecology, the political economy of place, and a culturalist perspective. A contributing factor to the stable situation of housing estates is the ambivalent relationship that exists towards this type of construction, which ultimately never became convincingly stigmatised. Many of the inhabitants of such estates have moreover established fi rm roots in there and their interest in their place of residence is often sustained by a proprietar- ial relationship towards the fl at they live in. However, some important factors that could cause this to change in the future include the concentration of eth- nic minorities in some locations and the risk of the collapse of collective nego- tiation among occupant-owners. A deep, empirically grounded prognosis of the future of Czech housing estates requires systematic research focused on a specifi c location and designed to capture the overlooked political-economic and cultural dimensions of this issue.

Keywords

CS

sociologie

EN

sociology; housing estates; post-socialist city; neighbourhood change; Czech Republic

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 965-988
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ondřej Špaček

• Sociologický časopis, redakce, Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic