<scp>DILUTED POST</scp>‐<scp>SOCIALISM</scp>: Urban Policymaking in East Germany, Poland and Ukraine
Journal: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Year: 2024

Abstract More than three decades after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the post‐socialist framework prevalent in the academic world is raising more and more questions. The three most serious doubts have to do with: (1) the time that has elapsed since the collapse of the state‐socialist system, which means that local urbanization has been influenced by factors other than just this period; (2) the unclear geographical boundaries of the post‐socialist world; (3) the questionable way of definin