Reinforcing Place Attachment Through its Disruption : An Ethnographic Example from the Solidarita Housing Estate in Prague

Abstract

Using the theoretical concept of place attachment and the concept of social production of place, the aim of this paper is to show how residents of the Solidarita housing estate in Prague are attached to the place of their home and neighborhood and how this attachment is reconceptualized through the post-socialist socio-spatial changes of the place.

Keywords

• neighborhood
• post-socialist city
• place attachment
• urban transformation