Contents // Wendelin Strubelt/ Grzegorz Gorzelak // Preface... 9 // Petr Dostál // The Post-Communist Capital City Effects, Transactional Activities and Regional Development in the Czech Republic in the 1990s: // A Modelling Approach... 15 // Petr Dostál/Martin Ham pi // Development of National Settlement Systems in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Areas: A General Discussion and the Case of the Czech Republic ... 43 // Lubomír Faltan // Socio-Spatial Coherence of Consumerism in Post-Communist City ... 55 // Krzysztof Frysztacki // Structural Interpretation of Urban Life... 71 // Jürgen Friedrichs // Human Ecology Revisited... 83 // Grzegorz Gorzelak // Development of Polish Regions and the EU Cohesion Policy... 97 // Bernd Hamm // Demographic Change, Globalization and Resistance in Regional Development ... 121 // Michal Illner // The Five Faces of “Pragocentrism”... 133 // 6 // Contents // Bohdan Jatowiecki // Metropolisation of Polish Space... 145 // Ewa Kaltenberg-Kwiatkowska // Street Names - Between Sign and Symbol. // The Case of Poland and the Czech Republic... 157 // Andrzej Majer // Urban Policy as Viewed by Politicians from Four Polish Cities.. 193 // Thomas Rommelspacher // From the Planning Association of the Ruhr Coal District (SVR) to // the Ruhr Regional Association (RVR) ... 209 // Walter Siebel // Chances and Risks of Negative Growth - Some Errors in Reasoning when Discussing Demographic Change... 219 // Wendelin Strubelt // “Stadt und Land” - The
Relation between City and Countryside (Non-Urban Territories) The German Case - A German Case? // Reflections and Facts... 233 // Kazimierz Z Sowa // The Identity of Europe and its International Boundaries... 269 // Ludek Sýkora // Revolutionary Change, Evolutionary Adaptation and New Path Dependencies: Socialism, Capitalism and Transformations in Urban Spatial Organizations ... 283 // Marek Szczepahski/Weronika Slqzak-Tazbir // Between Fear and Admiration. Social and Spatial Ghettoes in an // Old Industrial Region ... 297 // Bernhard Schafers // Development and Importance of Public Space as a Basis for Democratically Constituted (Urban) Societies ... 329 // Alfred Schwandt // A Letter from the Past ... 341 // Uwe-Jens Walther // Integrated Area Based Approaches in Neighbourhood Regeneration — the European Experience... 345 // The Authors // 359