Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Tag: Poland

  • Interdisciplinary Reflections from Katowice

    Last week I was in Katowice for a meeting of the Horizon-funded ISABEL Horizon project, where we explored the impacts of the green transition on job destruction and job creation, especially in regions historically shaped by coal industries. What struck me most was the diversity of the consortium. It brings together people from fields such…

  • Falowiec: landscape of communism in Gdansk, Poland.

    I have recently been walking around “Falowiec” (form the Polish word fala, wave; plural: falowce) in Gdansk, the longest building in Europe. It is a block of flats characterised by its length and wavy shape. This type of building was built in Poland in the late 1960s and 1970s in the Polish city of Gdańsk,…

  • What to do with an old power plant in the middle of the city? The case of Łódź, in Poland

  • Gentrification of a postsocialist old centre in Gdansk, Poland

    Yesterday, walking from industrial area in the surrounding of Gdansk until the historic old center. It was worth photographing the difference in terms of housing in hardly half a kilometer, as well as the contrast between old industrial sites by the river and the new real state that is being raised. The river side is…

  • Postsocialism and postindustrialism: how outsourcing and offshoring boom is transforming Gdansk city, Poland

    Gdansk city is emerging as the next outsourcing city. As many other mid-size cities in the country in the last decade, as well as the capital Warsaw did since 1990, the city is harbouring a increasing number of multinational corporations that aim to outsoource certain business process. In a preious post I echo a very interesting…

  • Health and happiness: cross-sectional household surveys in Finland, Poland and Spain

    Abstract Objective To explore the associations between health and how people evaluate and experience their lives. Methods We analysed data from nationally-representative household surveys originally conducted in 2011–2012 in Finland, Poland and Spain. These surveys provided information on 10 800 adults, for whom experienced well-being was measured using the Day Reconstruction Method and evaluative well-being was…

  • Transcripts of “Qualitative data analysis” course introduction.

    [Qualitative data analysis course as part of Economic Analysis program at Faculty of Economics of Gdansk University of Technology] Good, so! This is qualitative data analysis class. My name is Xaquín Pérez-Sindín López. The first thing I want to do is invite you to call me Xaquín. In class, during office hours, whenever, this is…

  • “The European City in Transformation: Urban politics and urban planning in a postsocialist city”

    Abstract This book analyses postsocialist urban policy. The focus lies on the question of how certain it is that postsocialist Eastern European Cities are approaching the Model of the classic “European City“. The city of Warsaw was chosen as case study. Based on the neo-weberian approach developed by Le Galès, the author defines the characteristics…

  • Urbanismo en la ciudad post-socialista: un viejo y no gentrificado parque en el centro de Gdynia (Polonia)

    Las dinámicas urbanas en la sociedad industrial capitalista condicionan en gran medida la forma de entender la calle, la forma de hacer uso de ella. Me ha parecido formidable el artículo de Manuel Delgado en su blog personal “El carrer com a espai perdut” (la calle como un espacio perdido). En el habla de como los niños…

  • Polish-German Border Towns: Models of Transnationalism?

    Funded by the British Academy this project investigates the transformations of public space in interface areas of the German-Polish ‘twin towns’ of Frankfurt-Slubice, Guben-Gubin and Görlitz-Zgorzelec along the Oder-Neisse border. Despite modest populations, the border towns have major symbolic value for two nations attempting to write a new chapter in a modern history marked by…