<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The concept of reurbanisation is discussed in this article from theoretical and methodological perspectives. Reurbanisation has been defined as one of the stages of urban development recently, but it is also tied to processes of gentrification, or perceived as a policy aimed at the revitalisation of inner cities. The main objective of this contribution is to discuss three principal and different perspectives of reurbanisation: firstly, reurbanisation as defined on the macro-scale of settlement system development; secondly, the concept as elaborated at the micro-scale of the transformation of inner cities; and, thirdly, reurbanisation viewed as a specific urban policy at the local government scale of analysis. The authors’ singular understanding of the reurbanisation process – as suburban-to-urban migration – is then presented as an alternative conceptualization of reurbanisation. This paper presents and evaluates the use of the reurbanisation concept in research on residential environments in current conditions in the Czech Republic and relates it to the broader domain of research on post-socialist cities.</p></abstract>

The concept of reurbanisation is discussed in this article from theoretical and methodological perspectives. Reurbanisation has been defined as one of the stages of urban development recently, but it is also tied to processes of gentrification, or perceived as a policy aimed at the revitalisation of inner cities. The main objective of this contribution is to discuss three principal and different perspectives of reurbanisation: firstly, reurbanisation as defined on the macro-scale of settlement system development; secondly, the concept as elaborated at the micro-scale of the transformation of inner cities; and, thirdly, reurbanisation viewed as a specific urban policy at the local government scale of analysis. The authors’ singular understanding of the reurbanisation process – as suburban-to-urban migration – is then presented as an alternative conceptualization of reurbanisation. This paper presents and evaluates the use of the reurbanisation concept in research on residential environments in current conditions in the Czech Republic and relates it to the broader domain of research on post-socialist cities.

The reurbanisation concept and its utility for contemporary research on post-socialist cities: The case of the Czech Republic

Urban and Regional Laboratory, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The concept of reurbanisation is discussed in this article from theoretical and methodological perspectives. Reurbanisation has been defined as one of the...

The reurbanisation concept and its utility for contemporary research on post-socialist cities: The case of the Czech Republic

Published Online: Jan 22, 2016

Page range: 26 - 35

Received: Jul 28, 2014

Accepted: Nov 30, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2015-0022

Keywords
reurbanisation, metropolitan regions, migration, post-socialist cities, Czech Republic

© 2015 Martin Ouředníček et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The reurbanisation concept and its utility for contemporary research on post-socialist cities: The case of the Czech Republic

Published Online: Jan 22, 2016

Page range: 26 - 35

Received: Jul 28, 2014

Accepted: Nov 30, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2015-0022

Keywordsreurbanisation, metropolitan regions, migration, post-socialist cities, Czech Republic

© 2015 Martin Ouředníček et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
reurbanisation, metropolitan regions, migration, post-socialist cities, Czech Republic