Photo: Magdalena Hrozínková, Radio Prague International
A new study by the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Prague) comparing the Czech capital with 11 other European cities has found that there is still a gap between East and West in many respects. The analysis looked at areas of life such as housing, transport, work and free time to see how Prague fared in a European context, and concluded that the city has not yet shaken off its post-communist legacy in some ways. I spoke to Lucie Pára from IPR Prague to find out more.
You compared 12 cities in your study – Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Vienna, Munich, Amsterdam, Milan, Barcelona, Bucharest, and Sofia. It seems like you got a good spread from north to south and east to west, but were there any other criteria by which you selected them?
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Author: Anna Fodor