Abstract
In post-socialist cities, urban environments formed under socialist regimes are being adapted and remodeled to new conditions shaped by the political, economic and cultural transition to capitalist society. The main transformations in the spatial organization of former socialist cities and their metropolitan areas included the commercialization and expansion of city centers, the dynamic revitalization of some areas within the overall stagnation in inner cities, and the radical transformation of outer cities and urban hinterland through commercial and residential suburbanization.