Highlights the critical importance of public policies and plannin
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
List of Illustrations x
Glossary xvi
Series Editors’ Preface xx
Preface xxi
1 The Challenge of Postsocialist Suburbanization 1
Luděk Sýkora and Kiril Stanilov
2 Urban Sprawl on the Danube: The Impacts of Suburbanization in Budapest 33
Zoltán Kovács and Iván Tosics
3 Confronting Suburbanization in Ljubljana: From “Urbanization of the Countryside” to Urban Sprawl 65
Nataša Pichler-Milanović
4 Suburbanization of Moscow’s Urban Region 97
Isolde Brade, Alla Makhrova, and Tatyana Nefedova
5 Prague: Urban Growth and Regional Sprawl 133
Luděk k Sýkora and Ondrě j Mulícě k
6 Sprawling Sofia: Postsocialist Suburban Growth in the Bulgarian Capital 163
Kiril Stanilov and Sonia Hirt
7 Suburbanization in the Tallinn Metropolitan Area 192
Kadri Leetmaa, Anneli Kährik, Mari Nuga, and Tiit Tammaru
8 Lessons from Warsaw: The Lack of Coordinated Planning and Its Impacts on Urban Sprawl 225
Andrzej Lisowski, Dorota Mantey, and Waldemar Wilk
9 Postsocialist Suburbanization Patterns and Dynamics: A Comparative Perspective 256
Kiril Stanilov and Luděk Sýkora
10 Managing Suburbanization in Postsocialist Europe 296
Kiril Stanilov and Luděk Sýkora
Index 321
