Gregory Andrusz & Michael Harloe 
Cities After Socialism 
Urban and Regional Change and Conflict in Post-Socialist Societies

Cities After Socialism is the first substantial and
authoritative analysis of the role of cities in the transition to
capitalism that is occurring in the former communist states of
Easter Europe and the Soviet Union. It will be of equal value to
urban specialists and to those who have a more general interest in
the most dramatic socio-political event of the contemporary era –
the collapse of state socialism. Written by an international group
of leading experts in the field, Cities after socialism asks and
answers some crucial questions about the nature of the emergent
post-socialist urban system and the conflicts and inequalities
which are being generated by the processes of change now occurring.

Table of Content

List of Contributors.

Preface.

1. Cities in the Transition: Michael Harloe.

2. Structural Change and Boundary Instability: Gregory
Andrusz.

3. The Socialist City: David Smith.

4. Urbanisation under Socialism: Georgy Enyedi.

5. Privatisation and its Discontents: Property Rights in Land
and Housing in the transition in Eastern Europe: Peter Marcuse.

6. Housing Privatisation in the Former Soviet Bloc to 1995:
Raymond J. Struyk.

7. From the Socialist to the Capitalist City – Experiences from
Germany: Hartmut Haussermann.

8. Environmental and Housing Movements in Cities after
Socialism: The Cases of Budapest and Moscow: Chris Pickvance.

9. A New Movement in an Ideological Vacuum: Nationalism in
Eastern Europe: Klaus von Beyme.

10. Cities Under Socialism: and After: Ivan Szelenyi.

Bibliography.

Index.

About the author

Gregory Andrusz, is Reader in Sociology at Middlesex
University.

Michael Harloeis Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic &
Research, Professor of Sociology at Essex University.

Ivan Szelenyi is Professor of Sociology at UCLA.