The Socio-Spatial Restructuring of Lódz, Poland

Szymon Marcinczak () and Iwona Sagan ()
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Szymon Marcinczak: The Institute of Urban Geography and Tourism Studies, University of Lódz, ul. Kopcinskiego 31, Lódz, Lódzkie, 91-142, Poland
Iwona Sagan: Department of Economic Geography, University of Gdansk, al. Pilsudskiego 46, Gdynia, 81-378, Poland

Urban Studies, 2011, vol. 48, issue 9, 1789-1809

Abstract: Most of the research on urban change in the formerly centrally planned countries has focused on the more prosperous capital cities of Warsaw, Prague, Berlin, Budapest and Tallinn. Thus, our understanding of on-going urban transformations in this part of the world is skewed towards a handful of urban areas. This paper takes a different approach by studying the post-socialist transformations of the socio-spatial structure of a second-tier city, based on data from Lódz, Poland. The results reveal the socio-spatial restructuring of Lódz at both the macro and micro levels. Most importantly, despite being organised at a wider scale by stable social areas, at the micro level there are dynamic processes of socio-spatial segregation throughout the city that contribute to the fine-grained fragmentation of social space. From an empirical perspective, this means that either a stable structure or growing fragmentation can be identified, depending on the scale of analysis.

Date: 2011
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