1st Edition

The Non-Post-Socialist City Urban Policymaking in Central and Eastern Europe

By Łukasz Drozda Copyright 2026
154 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Non-Post-Socialist City examines contemporary urban policies through case studies of six cities in four states across Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union (CEE/FSU) region. This book adopts a rarely used approach in the study of so-called post-socialist cities—combining several years of in-depth empirical research with a broad comparative frame. Building on this foundation,... Read more

Introduction   1. Post-Socialist Framework: Trajectories and Discontinuities   2. Studying Post-Socialist Cities   3. Mapping and Reading Non-Post-Socialism Through Epistemic Communities   4. Four Dimensions Of Non-Post-Socialist Policymaking   Conclusions: A New Laboratory of Urban Populism

Biography

Łukasz Drozda is a policy scientist and urban planner. He is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialization at the University of Warsaw and a lecturer affiliated with the School of Ideas at SWPS University and the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. He has been a visiting researcher at the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (2021), the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (2022), and Tallinn University (2024). He is the author of numerous publications, including several popular science books published in Polish. His research focuses primarily on social conflicts related to urban policy, urban right-wing populism, and urbanization processes in the former Eastern bloc.