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Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe
Annotation This volume is one in a series initiated by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies on the inter-relationship between globalisation and urban transformation. It identifies and describes the inter- and intra-urban transformations of Central and Eastern European cities and considers their pre-1945 historic legacies, the socialist period, and their contemporary transition towards market oriented and democratic systems. The dramatic changes since 1989 including the collapse of Communist ideology, the break-up of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the end of the Cold War and the impact of globalisation and European integration, have reconfigured this r...
Polskie pogranicza w procesie przemian tom V
W ideologicznych założeniach polskie pogranicza powinny przekształcać się w transgranicza. Jednak obrazy rzeczywistości, przedstawiane także w tym tomie, zakłócają sielankowe wizje formułowane na gruncie europeizmu. Szereg wydarzeń, poczynając od 1997 r., kiedy to Polska w ramach procesów przystosowawczych przed włączeniem do Unii Europejskiej zaczęła osłabiać relacje ze wschodnimi sąsiadami, stawia pod znakiem zapytania, to znów wspiera euromyślenie o pograniczach. Należy też pamiętać, że na procesy społeczno-gospodarcze na pograniczach istotny wpływ miało pełne włączenie Polski do strefy Schengen w 2007 r., a później uruchamianie i zawieszanie umów o ma...
De-coding New Regionalism
Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions – regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'. Through this approach it de-codes 'New Regionalism' in terms of its contributions to institutional change, while acknowledging its contested nature and contradictions. It questions whether these regions are merely a strategy of neo-liberal adjustment to changing political and economic conditions, or whether they are indicative of true reform, greater citizen participation and empowerment. It assesses whether these regions are really representing something new or whether they are a reconfiguration of traditional power relationships. It provides a timely critical analysis of 'region-building' and the extent to which national processes of decentralization and sub-national processes of regionalism can enhance the effectiveness and responsiveness of governance.
De-coding New Regionalism
Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'. Through this approach it de-codes 'New Regionalism' in terms of its contributions to institutional change, while acknowledging its contested nature and contradictions. It questions whether these regions are merely a strategy of neo-liberal adjustment to changing political and economic conditions, or whether they are indicative of true reform, greater citizen participation and empowerment. It assesses whether these regions are really representing something new or whether they are a reconfiguration of traditional power relationships. It provides a timely critical analysis of 'region-building' and the extent to which national processes of decentralization and sub-national processes of regionalism can enhance the effectiveness and responsiveness of governance.
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The Regional Dimension of Transformation in Central Europe
Providing a new picture of the socio-economic map of central Europe after several years of transformation, and focusing in particular on Poland, this book gives an account of the major problems of regional restructuring. The author identifies the opportunities and problems faced by particular regions by relating the Polish experience to the experience of other central European countries. This in turn provides a general picture of spatial patterns of transformation in this specific part of Europe and will interest those concerned with the transformation of Eastern Europe.
