ABSTRACT
The process is very clearly exemplified in post-socialist Europe, where communist experience of public place and civic rights had influenced public landscape and activities for more than few decades. During the 2000s, in many post-socialist cities, the desire to re-establish an aura of social coherence in central urban spaces to make them more inspiring, and more profitable encouraged various movements to re-aestheticise the centre and to implement civic values in the urban space. The physical square remains a powerful civic landscape icon of Ukrainian civic society. Civic spatial awaking of post-socialist European societies has been manifested by numerous, mostly local initiatives. The issue of Green Sofia has become a serious theme of administrative work, and representatives of the political administrative system are establishing regular contacts and meetings and cooperation with the civic movement. In spring 2008 the Polish Citizens' Forum initiated a nationwide discussion on the quality of public and civic places in Poland.
