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1. How Long Does The ‘Post’ Last? Spatial Dynamics in Post-Socialist Transition

   • The lost past: the construction of despair in the Tajik capital (M. Bahovadinova)

   • Super-gentrification in a post-socialist state on the example of Poland (Drozda, Ł.)

   • Transition and Control: Urban Development along Belgrade's Waterfront (Bobic, N.)

   • Urban Transformation in Post-Socialist Cities of Former Yugoslavia – Case Study of Ljubljana, Slovenia (Valinger Sluga, M.)

2. Socialist Legacy–Emerging Heritage?

   • Contemporary Art and Socialist Heritage Debate in Post-Socialist Bulgaria (Belcheva, I.)

   • Fragmentation of Social Experiences: Everyday Encounters with the Memorial Architecture of Socialist Yugoslavia (Murtic, A.)

   • Representations of Socialist Architecture in Hungary (Jasz, B.)

   • Intangible, fetishized & constructed new contexts for staging the socialist heritage (Zekovic, M., Zugic, V., Stojkovic, B.)

   • The Past as a Rotting Place. Active Negligence and Wasted Legacies after Socialism (Martínez, F.)

   • Ideology, Power and Socialist Urban Legacy in Macedonia: a Reflection on the Project Skopje 2014 (Staletovic, B.)

   • Loss of Heritage, Revival of Memory (Harutyunyan, T.)

   • Inherited housing - 30 years of communal apartments life after Socialism–the case of Kyiv's Sotsgorod (Mezentsev, K., Denysenko, O.)

   • The Possibility for Prefabrication: Institute for Testing Materials Serbia IMS (Badnjar Gojnic, A.)

   • What meaning for modernity? Politics of the socialist heritage in Croatia (Viderman, T., Berc, D.)

3. The Urban Morphology of Post Socialism

   • Post socialist or global capitalist? Recent urban form in Belgrade and Krakow compared with developments in the UK (Samuels, I., Kantarek, A. A., Djordjevic, A.)

   • Skopje’s urbanism of everything is possible – How does it compare to other post-socialist urbanisms? (Stojanovski, T.)

   • Alienation, Appropriation, Autogestion… Territoriale: Urban Artefacts as Carriers of Spatial Self-Management (Pajovic, U.)

   • Post-socialist housing in Novi Sad, Serbia (Stefanovic,V., Rajkovic, I.)

   • The role of land ownership in the small towns’ development (Kwiatek-Sołtys, A.)

   • Departing from the post-socialist city: emigration and urban morphologies in southeastern Europe (König, J.)

   • Morphological development of the micro districts under the pressure of the post-socialist transformations–case studies of the Siberian cities (Kukina, I., Fedchenko, I.)

   • Morphological pattern of outer fringe belts of socialist city in Post-socialist period (Logunova, E.)

   • Transformation of public spaces in a post-socialist city (Chui, I.)

   • Housing construction and spatial forms of the development of Moscow agglomeration (Kurichev, N., Kuricheva, E.)

   • Lost identities of transformed urban spaces in east Germany’s post-socialist cities (Rogge, N.)

   • “Three Digit Blocks”; The Socialist Imprint on the Housing Strategies in Eastern Europe and The Middle East (Bedour, B.)

4. Contested functions of (socialist) architecture in post-socialist cities

   • Size Matters:  Problems and Potentials of Bigness of Public Socialist Buildings (Konstantinovic, D., Jovic, S.)

   • Recourse to Utopia: Architecture and the Production of Sense Without Meaning (Jepson, G.)

   • The New Social Reality of Ex-Socialist Architecture (Tatlic, I.)

   • Place attachment in the Solidarity Housing Estate Prague (Hodúlová, T.)

   • The transformation of urban environment of Tirana during the post-socialist transition (Gjermeni, E., Lushaj, A.)

   • From Soviet Utopia to New Opportunities (Kupatadze, I., Alavidze, I.)

   • Destruction or Decay: The Outlook of Postwar Industrial Heritage of Serbia (Vlajic, A.)

   • The Three Layers of the City of Kukes: A Proposal for Revitalizing Collective Urban Memory (Breçani, R.)

   • Post-socialist spatial and functional restructuring of residential dvors (courtyards) in Yekaterinburg’s mikrorayons (formerly Sverdlovsk) (Gobova, N.)

5. 1989-2019 CEE urban transformation revisited: city visions, self-made transitions and alternative development models

   • Beyond the Global North and South: Contemporary studies of local activism in Post-Soviet Russia (Zhelnina, A., Tykanova, E.)

   • Stigmergic behaviours in urban transformation of post-socialist cities: case of Ukraine (Fonseca, M. A., Chabanyuk, O.)

   • Post-socialist reality: From informal settlement to detached suburbia, case of Niš, Serbia (Jovic, Dj.)

   • Challenges of civic engagement in the (post-socialist) transitional society: experiences from waterfront urban areas Mezapark in Riga and Kalarand in Tallinn (Prilenska, V., Paadam, K., Liias, R.)

   • Reclaim positions and reimagine the city? Lviv urban experts since the late 1980s (Otrishchenko, N.)

   • Typological narratives of a fragmented urban landscape; Case of Skopje (Noev, I.)

   • "Authorities' Point of View is to Keep a Silence": Interaction between Initiative Groups and Local Authorities in the Urban Planning Policy (Shevtsova, I., Bederson, V.)

   • From Block to City, and Back: Post-1989 Transformation of Residential Neighborhoods in Podgorica (Dragovic, S.)

   • Social production of space in Kazan: between urban entrepreneurialism and bottom-up activism (Turowska, A.)

   • Transitions and renovation projects at the central marketplace of post-socialist Sofia: changing values and plans from the 1980s untill 2013 (Venkov, N.)

6. Culture-led urban transformation and tourism potential in post-socialist Europe and beyond

   • Survival of socialist legacy in Budapest city center   (Ben Salem, S. Simon, M.)

   • Culture – led urban transformation and urban heritage in the postsocialist city: The case of Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad (Pajvancic-Cizelj, A., Ristic, D., Marinkovic, D.)

   • Nuisance or Economic Salvation - the Role of New Urban Tourism in Today's Berlin (Raschke, A. L., Brandt, S., Müller, C.)

   • City Tourist Guide: from ideology tool to promotion of consumerism (example of Lviv) (Kozlova, I.)

   • Urban identity struggles in post-socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina: the case of civil society-led transformation of the open public space in Banja Luka (Spiric, A., Lakic, S.)

7. Contentious Mobility Governance: Mobility as an entry point to understanding urban governance in post-Soviet Cities

   • Study of everyday urban mobility practices executed on a fixed gear or road racing bike in the city (Cermak, M.)

   • Immobility and challenges of modernization: Car parking in Warsaw (Kurnicki, K.)

   • Governing post-socialist mobilities. A mobility justice lens (Sgibnev, V., Rekhviashvili, L., Tuvikene, T.)

   • Marshrutka 2.0 – How Yandex Taksi fundamentally shifts the post-soviet transport assemblages in contemporary Russian cities (Weicker, T.)

8. Rural Areas in the Post-Socialist Context

   • “There is a need to restore services and grocery stores in our countryside…”: Discourse on rural peripheralization in Czechia against the background of rural socio-economic development (Bernard, J.)

   • Collapse of a Soviet Estonian kolkhoz: cowboy capitalism and redistribution of land and wealth (Veldi, M.)

   • Spatial Patterns of Rural Population Dynamics During the Transition: A Case Study of Tyumen Oblast, Russia (Sheludkov, A., Müller, D.)

   • Memorialisation of authentic historical localities, People’s Liberation Struggle in non-urban areas (Lovrencic, L.)

9. New patterns of land appropriation in post-socialist space

   • Territory, Property, and Post-Socialist Formations of Land Enclosure (Smirnova, V.)

   • The commons in the post socialist city – a Western Balkan case study (Toto, R., Cacic, M., Nientied, P.)

   • Legitimacy of illegal: the growth of socialist and post socialist urban fringe in Belgrade, Serbia (Mitrovic, B.)

   • Second home mobility: informal seasonal settlements as a socialist heritage and a part of modern Moscow agglomeration (Rusanov, A.)

   • Revitalization of industrial zones of Moscow (Kuptsova, I.)

10. Innovating the Post-socialist City: Challenging Legacy. Emerging Fears?

    • Spatial Multiplicities and Urban Conflicts: a proposal of critical cartography of the condition of urban un-protection in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) (Cruz, M. C.; de Cássia Lucena Velloso, R.)

    • Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Transition Architecture of Postwar Ex-Yugoslavia (Stanicic, A.)

    • Local responses to urban shrinkage: the emergence of a comprehensive view in a former mining city Novoshakhtinsk, Southern Russia (Batunova, E., Trukhachev, S.)

    • Sustainable functionalism, after neo-liberalism and socialism (Toloue Hayat Azar, P.)

11. Promises of Strategic Urban Planning

    • The Democratization of Urban Planning? The Political Debate over Prague’s “Metropolitan Plan” (O'Dwyer, C.)

    • Strategic or strategic? Reaffirmation of socialist planning on the case of Belgrade (Danilovic Hristic, N., Colic, N., Đurđević, M.)

    • New urban practices in Russia's periphery (Kitsos, V.)

    • The New Urban Strategies in Designing and Branding Medium-Size Cities in Uzbekistan: Cases of Chartak, Kagan and Yangiyuln
      (Salimova, H.)

    • From state hubris to private hybrids. Tracing the Soviet urban legacy in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (van der Straeten, J., Petrova, M.)