Land Use Change in the Bucharest Metropolitan Area and its Impacts on the Quality of the Environment in Residential Developments

Pǎtroescu, M.; Vânău, Gabriel Ovidiu; Niţă, Mihai Răzvan; Iojă, Cristian; Iojă, Annemarie

doi:10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2011.036.i

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“…The first decade of ‘hesitant transition’ brought about visible, albeit minor changes in the spatial distribution of the higher social categories. The stability of the spatial patterns notwithstanding, and despite the professionalization of the city's overall occupational structure, some of the significant residential concentrations of the higher categories thinned out in a centrifugal movement that started somewhere between 1992 and 2002, a process that is said to have gained momentum after 2000 (Pǎtroescu et al ., ).…”

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Urban Geographies of Hesitant Transition: Tracing Socioeconomic Segregation in Post‐Ceauşescu Bucharest

Marcińczak

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Rufat

et al. 2013

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Scholars have raised concerns about the social costs of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe, and geographers are particularly interested in the spatial expressions and implications of these costs, including apparently increasing residential segregation. Applying a range of segregation measures to 1992 and 2002 census data, this contribution studies socio-occupational residential segregation in Bucharest. The conclusion is that Bucharest was relatively socio-spatially mixed at both times; in fact, a modest, yet fully legible, decreasing overall trend is observable. This is at odds with many popular assumptions of the past 20 years.

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Urban Geographies of Hesitant Transition: Tracing Socioeconomic Segregation in Post‐Ceauşescu Bucharest

Marcińczak

Gentile

Rufat

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Environmental factors: the share of surface water and lakes (derived from 2006 imagery) was each time strongly positively correlated with the share of green areas, including parks, forest, cemeteries, orchards, and meadows, based on inventories from previous studies, with a small time lag: 1995, 2000 and 2010 (Pătroescu et al 2011). As the presence, distance or share of green areas are the most used indicators of environmental quality, access to amenities and exposure in environmental justice studies (Frey , 2017), we chose the "share of green areas" as our 'attractor' indicator of environmental quality.…”

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“…The prestige and popularity of such areas have consolidated since the demise of communism (Chelcea, 2006). Despite some centrifugal movements reportedly gaining momentum after 2000 (Pătroescu et al, 2011) and the heavy transformation of the employment structure, the spatial patterns have remained relatively stable throughout the transition. In fact, a slight centripetal movement of the high social group can be linked to some 'repellent' factors in the North, with the extension of the Băneasa airport in the 1990s and the forest clearing to give room to a shopping and business complex after 2006, both fostering traffic and congestion (Ianoş et al, 2016).…”

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“…Other large parks adjoin the large socialist housing estates from the 1960s and 1970s, notably to the South East and the East, whereas orchards and meadows are more present at the periphery. The authorities lacked the resources to maintain the parks during the economic shock of the first decade of the transition (Pătroescu et al 2011). Some of the parks greens remained wilderness parks and stray dogs to playgrounds and amenities until the 2000s (Iojă et al, 2011), despite the creation of new Văcarești National Park around the reservoir in the south east of the city (Ianoş et al, 2016).…”

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The equalising mirage? Socioeconomic segregation and environmental justice in post-socialist Bucharest

Rufat

Marcińczak

2020

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Unlike the vast majority of European capitals, and despite growing income inequality, descriptive measures of socioeconomic segregation seem to show a desegregation trend in Bucharest over the last two decades. Socioeconomic segregation and environmental justice studies provide completing insights of the intricated uneven geographies of social, economic and environmental disparities of post-socialist cities. And Bucharest is paradoxically the most populated and yet less studied of the capitals of Central and Eastern Europe. This paper explores changes in the patterns of socioeconomic segregation in post-socialist Bucharest, sheds more light on the relationship between neighbourhood characteristics and the patterns of segregation, and includes 'attractor' and 'repellent' environmental factors, contributing to combine environmental justice and socioeconomic segregation approaches. Despite the apparently continuous desegregation trend, and even when controlling for the presence and proximity of other predictors, environmental factors play an increasing role in shaping local socioeconomic segregation patterns. This would suggest the need for consideration of the environmental factors in public policies aimed at mitigating the social cost of the transition and residential segregation. This should also lead to use descriptive measures of segregation more cautiously and to explore the relationship between neighbourhood characteristics, environmental conditions and the local patterns of segregation instead.

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“…The selection of this case study was because it is the only natural park in the vicinity of Bucharest, which presents rural characteristics. Generally, the Southern area of Bucharest metropolitan area was less attractive, but a reorientation in that direction has recently been noted (Pătroescu 2011). The travel time to this city is approximately 40-60 minutes from Bucharest downtown.…”

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Can Naturbanization Promote Environmentally Friendly Built-Up Areas? A Comparison Between Cadí-Moixeró (Catalonia, Spain) and Comana (Romania) Natural Parks

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Stoica

Pallarès-Blanch³

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European Countryside

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Abstract:The study compares the on-going naturbanization processes in and around two Natural Parks under the impact of newcomers, but also tourists from Barcelona and Bucharest and their metropolitan areas. The landscape value of these areas attracts the urban population, which contributes to local sustainable development process but also promotes construction. New businesses associated with rural multifunctionality and value-added activities related to environmental quality were identified. New residents have contributed introducing responsible patterns of consumer, ecoentrepreneurship by women, recovery of abandoned buildings and intensification of rural-urban relationships. Negative impacts such as intensive construction of second homes, with a lower use, in some areas around Cadí-Moixeró threaten biodiversity and habitat connectivity. Insufficient integration of environmental policies, particularly in the Comana wetlands, reduces the potential for rural renewal. Research methods included a review of the counterurbanization literature and the statistical data related to processes of naturbanization in both areas, along with the conduct of 30 structured interviews with key local actors in each area. Naturbanization still offers the potential to enhance local development; however, it is urgent to assess social perspectives in natural parks management in order to achieve environmentally friendly built-up areas.Key words: Built-up areas, Cadí-Moixeró NP, Comana NP, Naturbanization, Quality landscape, Barcelona, Bucharest.Abstract: Naturbanizarea poate promova zone rezidențiale compatibile cu mediul înconjurător? O comparație între parcurile naturale Cadí-Moixeró (Catalonia, Spain) și Comana (Romania). Acest studiu compară procesul de naturbanizare în două parcuri naturale sub impactul noilor veniți dar și a turiștilor din Barcelona și București și zonele metropolitane ale acestora. Peisajul acestor zone atrage populația urbană, care contribuie la dezvoltarea locală sustenabilă dar și la apariția de noi construcții. Noile activități economice sunt asociate cu multifuncționalitatea rurală și cu valoarea adăugată relaționată cu calitatea mediului. Noii rezidenți au contribuit prin introducerea unor modele de consum responsabil, integrarea femeilor antreprenor, reconversia clădirilor abandonate și intensificarea relațiilor urban-rural. Efectele negative precum construcția reședințelor secundare (multe dintre acestea vacante) în anumite zone din jurul parcului natural Cadí-Moixeró, amenință biodiversitatea și conectivitatea habitatelor. Insuficienta integrare a politicilor de mediu, mai ales în parcul natural Comana, reduc potențialul reînnoirii rurale printr-o abordare integrată. Metodele de cercetare includ o prezentare a literaturii referitoare la procesul de contraurbanizare și a datelor statistice relaționate procesului de naturbanizare în ambele arii, împreună cu rezultatele a 30 de interviuri structurate aplicate în fiecare zonă unor actori cheie. Naturbanizarea prezintă potențial pentru a stimula dezvoltarea l...

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Land Use Change in the Bucharest Metropolitan Area and its Impacts on the Quality of the Environment in Residential Developments

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

Urban Geographies of Hesitant Transition: Tracing Socioeconomic Segregation in Post‐Ceauşescu Bucharest

Urban Geographies of Hesitant Transition: Tracing Socioeconomic Segregation in Post‐Ceauşescu Bucharest

The equalising mirage? Socioeconomic segregation and environmental justice in post-socialist Bucharest

Can Naturbanization Promote Environmentally Friendly Built-Up Areas? A Comparison Between Cadí-Moixeró (Catalonia, Spain) and Comana (Romania) Natural Parks

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