Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/118038 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 16.2003
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
The paper is a case study of the city of Banska Bystrica in Slovakia in the light of political, socio-economic and cultural changes. It discusses urban diversity and integrity from an anthropological qualitative perspective. On the example of three different historical periods (1918 – 1948: the democratic Czechoslovakia; 1948 – 1989: the communist Czechoslovakia; 1989 up to the present: building new democracy in a new state) the study shows transformations of the city and urban life. The research results show how political systems influence conditions, in which urban diversity and heterogeneity develop. The study demonstrates that diversity can grow and flourish only in democracy, which allows differences and pluralism leading to richer and diversified urban life.
Subjects: 
Urban diversity
post-communist city
democracy
Slovakia
JEL: 
N30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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