Rebuilding a community ‘centre’ under free-market pressure: the post-socialist experience with local brownfield management

0549358 - ÚGN 2024 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Malý, Jiří - Alexandrescu, R. - Osman, Robert - Klusáček, Petr
Rebuilding a community ‘centre’ under free-market pressure: the post-socialist experience with local brownfield management.
Territory Politics Governance. Roč. 11, č. 7 (2023), s. 1344-1364. ISSN 2162-2671. E-ISSN 2162-268X
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-26934S
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : brownfields * development * neoliberalism * post-socialism * strategic action fields * urban space
OECD category: Urban studies (planning and development)
Impact factor: 2.6, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21622671.2021.1916580

In post-socialist countries, recycling urban spaces is one of the key tasks for local authorities to address. While large-scale abandoned places received the required attention, small-scale brownfields have been omitted from redevelopment strategies. Using transition theory on the effects of globalization on communities and the theory of action fields, the paper aims to increase knowledge about the ways in which local actors strive to reach the goals of post-socialist non-prime brownfield remediation. In the example of a local redevelopment project (in Brno, Czech Republic), the study focuses on the options available to public authorities in developing a civic centre against free-market pressures. The results illustrate the hierarchical limits of territorial governance in post-socialist cities which contribute to the growing imbalance between economic and social capital in the brownfield management. The effects of globalization hinder the process of creating a field of strategic action between post-socialist local authorities and free-market forces.
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