Conquering the inner-city: Urban redevelopment and gentrification in Moscow

Culture‐led development and conflict over urban space: reimag(in)ing st petersburg, russia

“…It should come as little surprise that policymakers of post-socialist cities, after decades of central planning, have also focused on urban regeneration, in order to adapt to new social and economic demands related to the processes of political and economic restructuring at the end of the 1980s and in the 1990s. However, as the evidence suggests, property-led regeneration strategies in the form of often unrestrained gentrification of both residential and commercial spaces tend to prevail, leaving significant imprints on a city's cultural and social landscapes and causing at times serious conflicts as a result (see, e.g., Sýkora 1994Sýkora , 2007Badyina and Golubchikov 2005;Golubchikov and Badyina 2006;Kinossian 2006;Kreja 2006;czepczyński 2008;Golubchikov 2010). positive examples of urban regeneration, however, as a rule, include cases when regenerated spaces were initially depressed and obsolete, and in the process of regeneration, became economically revitalized and socially cohesive.…”

Neue sozialräumliche Entwicklungstrends in innerstädtischen Wohnquartieren des mittleren und östlichen Europa?

“…Haase et al 2010b;Brake, Herfert 2012). Innerstädtische Wandlungsprozesse und -muster nach 1990 wurden bisher vorrangig mittels des Gentrifizierungskonzepts untersucht (Golubchikov, Badyina 2006;Kovács 1998;Standl, Krupickaite 2004;Sykora 2005;Szelenyi 1996 …”

“…In anderen MOE-Innenstädten finden sich Zeichen punktueller soziostruktureller Aufwertungen (u. a. Golubchikov, Badyina 2006;van Kempen, Murie 2009: 387;Kovács 1998;Standl, Krupickaite 2004;Sykora 2005;Szelenyi 1996). In diesem disP 191 · 48.4 (4/2012) …”

The urbanization of transition: ideology and the urban experience

“…Here, it is the consumption of urban space and segregation (including through gentrification and suburbanization) that complete this translation. For example, informed by the symbolic meanings of what locations and types of housing are "prestigious" or not, housing markets differentiate income groups, who are now in search of defining and securing their own class status (Badyina and Golubchikov 2005;Golubchikov and Badyina 2006). Spatial formations thus work as a medium to transform income inequalities into social status -consuming space is what sustains social reproduction and iterates classes today, more than, for example, industrial-era production-based class struggle.…”