Growing income differentiation in society, diversification of housing supply and
selective population mobility are resulting in increasing socio-spatial
differentiation in Czech cities and neighbourhoods during the post-socialist
transition. Housing estates are no exception to the processes of urban change.
The paper shows that development trajectories of housing estates vary in
different parts of the country, in various locations within each city and also
within particular housing estates. As segregation in Czech cities takes place
mainly within very small areas, statistical analyses usually fail to detect the
seeds of social and physical degradation emerging in neighbourhoods and a micro
survey is essential. In order to understand the patterns and factors of
differentiation, the paper presents case studies from housing estates located in
different cities of the Czech Republic.
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