Kiril Stanilov is a Senior Research Associate at the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge. His research interests are centred on explorations of contemporary patterns of urban growth and change, and the role played by public policies in shaping urban form transformations. His book publications include Twenty Years of Transition (2009), The Post-Socialist City (2007), and Suburban Form (2003).Ludĕk Sýkora is a Professor in the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. His research is focused on conceptualization and empirical studies of urban transformations in post-communist cities. He is the joint author of Regional Policy and Planning in Europe (with Paul Balchin and Gregory Bull, 1999) and author of a number of journal articles and book chapters dealing with urban change in Central and East European cities.

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• Notes on Contributors viiList of Illustrations xGlossary xviSeries Editors’ Preface xxPreface xxi1 The Challenge of Postsocialist Suburbanization 1Luděk Sýkora and Kiril Stanilov2 Urban Sprawl on the Danube: The Impacts of Suburbanization in Budapest 33Zoltán Kovács and Iván Tosics3 Confronting Suburbanization in Ljubljana: From “Urbanization of the Countryside” to Urban Sprawl 65Nataša Pichler-Milanović4 Suburbanization of Moscow’s Urban Region 97Isolde Brade, Alla Makhrova, and Tatyana Nefedova5 Prague: Urban Growth and Regional Sprawl 133Luděk k Sýkora and Ondrě j Mulícě k6 Sprawling Sofia: Postsocialist Suburban Growth in the Bulgarian Capital 163Kiril Stanilov and Sonia Hirt7 Suburbanization in the Tallinn Metropolitan Area 192Kadri Leetmaa, Anneli Kährik, Mari Nuga, and Tiit Tammaru8 Lessons from Warsaw: The Lack of Coordinated Planning and Its Impacts on Urban Sprawl 225Andrzej Lisowski, Dorota Mantey, and Waldemar Wilk9 Postsocialist Suburbanization Patterns and Dynamics: A Comparative Perspective 256Kiril Stanilov and Luděk Sýkora10 Managing Suburbanization in Postsocialist Europe 296Kiril Stanilov and Luděk SýkoraIndex 321