Abstract
This paper develops a conceptual framework for interpreting the process of urban change in post-communist cities. The departure from the legacies of the communist past has been effectuated through multiple transformation dynamics of institutional, social and urban change.
Wile institutional reforms have been largely accomplished, the adjustment of urban land use patterns to new societal conditions is still far from completed. Hence, post-communist cities are still cities in transition.
Using this interpretative framework and referring to a wide spectrum of academic work, the paper provides an overview of urban restructuring in post-communist countries over the past two decades with a specific focus on the examples of mutual integration of the three fields of transformation.