MESTSKÉ SÍDLISKO - MENIACI SA PRIESTOR (NA PRÍKLADE PETRŽALKY)

• Authors: Janto Juraj

Title variants

EN

Urban housing estates: Changing space (On the example of Petržalka)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper focuses on the new urban spaces - housing estates, which are at the moment accommodating approximately one third of all inhabitants of Slovakia. The author examines the changes ongoing during the last 15 years in the largest Slovak housing estate of Petrzalka. He emphasises the improvement of the living environment, in particular the development of infrastructure, possibilities for free time activities, numerous green places etc. These factors the author identified as causes of the satisfaction, the author's informants expressed when talking about the estate. He pays attention to the developing activities of non-profit organizations as they are among the factors improving and enriching the inhabitants as necessary for achieving a satisfactory quality of the living environment. In the conclusion the author expresses his fears that further development of the estate could be limited to the technocratic solutions giving a way to a force of the developers without participation and on the expense of its inhabitants.

Keywords

EN

HOUSING ESTATE; LIVING ENVIRONMENT; URBAN AREAS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Ethnological Society, and Slovak National Museum - Ethnological Museum (in Martin)
• Journal: Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 108-116
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Janto Juraj

• J. Janto, Katedra etnologie a kulturnej antropologie, Filozoficka fakulta Univerzity Komenskeho, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA03106416