ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a typology of attitudes of inner-city residents towards housing and living in the inner cities of Lódz, Brno and Gdansk. It assesses the attitudes that inner-city dwellers have towards their residential location, how they came here and to what extent they feel attached to the place. The dimension of the typology is the criteria interviewees use to judge the inner city as a residential environment. They found two categories of evaluation criteria that produced different attitudes: emotional and rational criteria. The intentional decision to move to the inner city is thus grounded in emotional and rational criteria, which are both equally important for the evaluation of the inner city as a residential environment. The qualitative data shows attitudes, ranging from enthusiasm, through pragmatism and ambivalence, to frustration. They found the central location, the cultural amenities nearby and the physical structures, that is, brick buildings, as opposed to the blocks found in the large socialist housing estates.
