International audienceThis research aims to identify the land-use patterns that characterize the peripheries of the cities from Central and Eastern Europe, after the fall of the communism. It wishes to check if there is a common regional pattern and if it is true that suburbanization is following the same trends than in Western Europe. In order to find the similarities or the dissimilarities between cities, the study is based on the review of the literature, as well as on a GIS analysis on the post-socialist urban morphological and functional patterns of the peripheries of 98 cities. An emphasis is put on Polish and Romanian cities, which will be compared with a general model of what characterizes the periphery of the Central and Eastern Eu...