Post-Socialist Urban Forms
Notes From Sofia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11670535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sonia Hirt (0000-0002-9768-1062, Virginia Tech, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 464-488 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2747/0272-3638.27.5.464 |
| OpenAlex | W2078235808 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 36 |
This essay reviews some key processes shaping the transformation of urban forms that have occurred in Sofia, Bulgaria since the end of socialism in 1989. It introduces quantitative and qualitative evidence of five processes of change: growth of the urban periphery, decrease of spatial scale, privatization of space, land-use diversification, and pluralization of styles. Although Sofia's built fabric is generally changing in ways familiar to scholars of spatial restructuring in capitalist cities, there are important local, post-socialist nuances that affect these processes in terms of the pace and intensity with which they proceed
Business · Communism · Diversification (marketing strategy · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Pace · Political economy · Political science · Restructuring · Socialism · Sociology · Urban space · Law · Rural development and sustainability · Urban Planning and Governance · Urbanization and City Planning
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| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,74 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |