Abstract
The postwar decades were significant for urban development in Central and Eastern Europe since many cities grew rapidly and were industrialized. The Slovak city of Košice illustrates how industrial entities’ localization catalyzes urban development. The development in the years after 1945 changed the city character from middle size provincial town into a large industrial city. Later, the post-socialist transformation redirected this trend and left postindustrial areas within the city structure. From a path dependency perspective, the first phases of socialist and post-socialist periods show similar dynamics as a time of significant changes that set the guidelines for city development.
Highlights
Predkladaná vedecká štúdia sa venuje analýze procesu industrializácie Košíc po roku 1945 a tiež analýze vývoja industriálnych zón mesta v postsocialistickom období, po novembri 1989
Počet obyvateľov v Košiciach vďaka Východoslovenských železiarní (VSŽ) markantne vzrástol, čo v ďalších desaťročiach reflektovala aj bytová výstavba a postupné rozširovanie hraníc mesta
The previous decade was marked by ad hoc investment with no clear direction of development
Summary
Socialist Industrialization as a Factor of Urban Development and a Difficult Legacy in Košice, Slovakia Socialistická industrializácia ako faktor urbánneho rozvoja a neľahké dedičstvo v Košiciach, Slovensko. The following paper will analyze those periods in Košice’s development from the perspective of industrialization and later transformation processes It will describe the political and economic situation after WWII, analyzing the city planning and decision-making process that led to the rapid urbanization that Košice underwent in the socialist period. The paper is a combined outcome of two research projects, both focusing on Košice’s urban development but each from a different context On one side, it forms a historical study with the focus on archival sources and the perspective of the institutional approach, which helps to understand the frames that the centrally planned economy imposed on the city growth. The synthesis of those approaches gives insight into the development of Košice in the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries
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