European Spatial Research and Policy: Recent submissions
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Residential Segregation in Warsaw and its Metropolitan Area in the Context of Changing Housing Policy
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018)Warsaw and its metropolitan area seem an interesting testing ground for research on the phenomenon of residential segregation in the context of the evolution of housing policy, since the city has been subject to significant ... -
Transnational Networks of Pork Production: Fragile Linkages between Germany and CEE Countries
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018)The intention of this paper is to explore the internationalization efforts of German pork producers towards Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with a special focus on recent dynamics, market development strategies and policy ... -
Quantification of the Size of Local Public Administration: Empirical Study of Polish Regions
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018)The issue of the size of public administration is commonly researched. Most of the times this topic is tackled from a macroeconomic perspective, considering local and central administration together. That is why this paper ... -
Economic Growth, Inequalities and Poverty in Slovakia from 2005 to 2015 (the Analysis of Relations and Contexts at a Regional Level)
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018)Poverty rate is influenced by numerous factors. The determining ones are economic growth and the distribution of its effects. This article is therefore focused on the analysis of these effects and their relationship, as ... -
Spatial Variation in Size and Shape of Land Plots in Mazowieckie Voivodship
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018)The aim of the study is to evaluate the spatial variation in the size and shape of land plots in Mazowieckie voivodship. For the purposes of the study both the shape and the compactness of the plots were measured, and the ... -
The North-South Divide in Italy: Reality or Perception?
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018)lthough the literature about the objective socio-economic characteristics of the Italian North-South divide is wide and exhaustive, the question of how it is perceived is much less investigated and studied. Moreover, the ... -
Spatial Dynamic Modelling of Tax Gap: the Case of Italy
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018)This paper analyses the determinants of regional tax gap in Italy testing if tax evasion is characterised by spatial persistence. The size of spatial correlation in regional tax gaps has been tested and the role of additional ... -
In Memoriam. Witold Zmitrowicz (1940‒2017)
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Spatio-Temporal Differentiation of Cancer Incidence in Slovakia
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018-02-06)Coping with the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of cancers is a challenging medical task with continuing consequences for the development of population health status and economy of health in each country. The occurrence ... -
Public Spaces and Cultural Heritage in Community Projects – The Example of Warsaw
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018-02-06)Public space in cities is widely seen as a developmental resource. It thus becomes a kind of urban product, and a lure for a range of groups of current and potential users. Cities compete for prestige and standing by ... -
Borderland of Nations, Religions and Cultures – The Case of Podlasie
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018-02-06)Podlasie, a historical and geographical region in north-eastern Poland, serves as both an external (interstate, European Union) and internal (ethnic, religious, linguistic, cultural) borderland. The primary aim of the ... -
Post-Socialist Gentrification Processes in Polish Cities
Jakóbczyk-Gryszkiewicz, Jolanta
; ; (Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018-02-06)
This paper discusses the specific character of gentrification processes in Polish cities, with a particular focus on Warsaw, Łódź and Gdańsk. It explains the forces and factors behind gentrification, and highlights its ... -
The Discursive Construction of Innovation Policy in Peripheralising Estonia
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018-02-06)An innovation-driven agenda in regional development policy has emerged in the European Union against the backdrop of peripheralisation, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Using a discursive analytical framework, the ... -
The Question of Responsibility: (De-)Peripheralising Rural Spaces in Post-Socialist Estonia
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018-02-06)Recent studies on socio-spatial polarization and post-socialist spaces increasingly propose the use of postcolonial theory. Following this proposal, the paper attempts to make the decolonial approach fruitful for studying ... -
Euroregions as Soft Spaces: Between Consolidation and Transformation
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018-02-06)National borders constitute barriers to social, economic and political processes and, thus, tend to contribute to the peripheralisation of border regions. The paper compares the evolution of two euroregions in peripheral ... -
Crisis and the Reproduction of Core-Periphery Relations on the Hungarian Housing Market
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018-02-06)Housing markets can be understood as indicators of the spatial pattern of capital investment under contemporary financial capitalism. We take this point of entry in order to analyze core-periphery relations around the ... -
Peripherialisation as a Result and Driving Force of Territorial Mobility in Post-Socialist Romania
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2018-02-06)Over the past two and a half decades, the transition from a centralised to a market economy has affected Romania’s spatial configuration by re-widening the gap between cores and peripheries at a regional scale. Through a ... -
The (Re-)Production of Peripherality in Central and Eastern Europe
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People, Place and Partnership: Exploring Strategies to Revitalise Town Centres
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2017-08-05)More and more town centres in Western Europe are in decline, as indicated by growing shop vacancy rates in shopping streets. To turn the tide, decision makers look for revitalisation strategies. Are there any solutions? ... -
Proposal for a Method of Constructing Inclusive Urban Green Infrastructure
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2017-08-05)Population ageing and growing awareness of the need for physical activity is one of the most important topics in Europe nowadays. But it should be noted that there is still no interdisciplinary and integrated approach to ...