Residential Change and Demographic Challenge

Annegret Haase is a lecturer in Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany.

Using selected second-order cities in Poland (Gdansk and Lódz) and the Czech Republic (Brno and Ostrava) by way of illustration, this book examines the nexus between urban development and demographic change in East and Central European inner cities, particularly in residential areas. In doing so, the volume provides a framework for linking urban and demographic research, while also exploring parallels and differences in comparison with broader European patterns.

I: Conceptual Background, Context Conditions and Methodological Considerations; 1: Introduction: Idea, Premises and Background of this Volume; 2: Residential Change: Conceptualization, Methodological Challenges and Research Design; 3: Housing, Households and Demographic Challenge in Urban Space: Conceptual Considerations and Context Conditions in East Central Europe; 4: The Post-socialist Condition and Beyond: Framing and Explaining Urban Change in East Central Europe; 5: The Inner City in Focus; 6: ?ód?, Gda?sk, Brno and Ostrava and their Inner Cities: Urban and Demographic Development during Post-socialism; II: Empirical Investigations on and in Polish and Czech Inner Cities; 7: Old-new Diversity: Processes and Structures of Socio-Demographic Change in the Inner City; 8: Households as Actors I: Housing Careers and Housing Arrangements; 9: Households as Actors II: Attitudes towards Living in the Inner City; 10: Flexible Households, Flexible Dwellings, Flexible Neighbourhoods?; 11: Brick or Block - Housing Preferences and the Urban Fabric; 12: Tenure Change and Sociability: Transformation of Neighbourly Relations; III: Summary, Conclusion and Outlook; 13: Conclusion: Findings and Reflections