Špecifické formy obytného priestoru v mestskom prostredí: Adaptácia verejného priestoru sídelných štruktúr v postsocialistických krajinách

Dealing with the heritage of socialist mass housing planning is also a part of research on public spaces of residential buildings. Residential housing of the socialist period in Slovakia is dealing with the same issues. Questions of lifespan, transformation and intensification of mass housing are common topics of different post socialist countries. However, dealing with the heritage of socialism and humanization of settlements is different. In countries to the east of Slovakia, context of less developed economy and local cultural and social characteristics paradoxically led to several innovative housing solutions. In our context, similar planning projects remained only on paper while in the country of Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine became materialized. The paper focuses on comparison of the development of housing and public space based on social and historical context of these countries, which have several common urban characteristics