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The social and economical transformation after 1989 and globalisation caused radical changes of the intra-urban structures of cities in postcommunist countries. The first part of this paper focus on the conceptualisation of the postsocialist city as a subject of the geographical research. Postsocialist city is a city in transition. It is changing under the rules of market to become capitalist city. The geographical research of postsocialist city must focus on studying the processes of change. The second part of the paper attempts to classify main transformational processes of intraurban structures and also to specify a definition of mentioned processes. We have observed mentioned transformational processes in five zones of cities - historical core, inner city, villa neighbourhoods, communist housing estates and outer city/periphery
The social and economical transformation after 1989 and globalisation caused radical changes of the intra-urban structures of cities in postcommunist countries. The first part of this paper focus on the conceptualisation of the postsocialist city as a subject of the geographical research. Postsocialist city is a city in transition. It is changing under the rules of market to become capitalist city. The geographical research of postsocialist city must focus on studying the processes of change. The second part of the paper attempts to classify main transformational processes of intraurban structures and also to specify a definition of mentioned processes. We have observed mentioned transformational processes in five zones of cities - historical core, inner city, villa neighbourhoods, communist housing estates and outer city/periphery.