Large housing estates in Poland – a missing link in urban regeneration?

Gorczyca, Katarzyna; Kocaj, Arkadiusz; Fiedeń, Łukasz

doi:10.1080/09654313.2019.1687653

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“…Power [17] (p. 161) proposes that approaches which treat large housing estates as "live communities rather than inanimate monoliths" are likely to be more successful in stabilizing conditions in marginal residential neighborhoods. Others [18][19][20] stress the importance of appropriate neighborhood governance and put emphasis on the efficient organization and management of regeneration programs. Similarly, Warchalska-Troll [21] highlights the efficiency and speed of implementation of rehabilitation programs as key factors for the success of the renewal actions.…”

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The Evolution of Multifamily Housing: Post-Second World War Large Housing Estates versus Post-Socialist Multifamily Housing Types in Slovenia

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Kerbler

2021

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The academic discourse on post-Second World War (post-WW2) multifamily housing complexes has mostly focused on their negative aspects, related, especially, to their high population densities, poor quality of construction and social problems, due to the dominance of low-income residents. In reaction to these and other negative characteristics, alternative multifamily housing types started to emerge, first in Western European countries in the 1970s, and later in Eastern European countries, following the adoption of the market economy system at the beginning of the 1990s. The transformation that has occurred in mass housing types has been particularly distinct in Eastern European countries. Motivated by the lack of focused analyses of the important characteristics of these transformations, this article adopts a rare approach to the mass housing debate by focusing on examining the merits of post-WW2 large housing estates as compared to those of the post-socialist era. With a focus on Slovenia as a case study, a comparative analysis is performed by conducting a detailed review of the literature and other relevant sources. The comparative analysis shows that post-socialist multifamily housing types have many advantages over the post-WW2 housing estates, a finding that leads us to deduce that the transformations in mass housing typologies that have occurred in Slovenia (and other Eastern European countries) may have serious implications on the future of large housing estates. It is thus suggested in the conclusion that suitable regeneration policies need to be urgently implemented in post-WW2 housing estates in order to create more attractive living environments and prevent the potential degradation of these neighborhoods, which would, in turn, result in spatial residential segregation with concentrations of low-income households in post-WW2 housing estates.

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“…This type of housing generally represents 20-40 percent of total housing stock in CEE countries, where it has also been found to be of a comparatively poorer quality [25]. And yet according to Gorczyca et al [19], some of the countries in the region are yet to implement any serious large housing estate refurbishment measures.…”

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The Evolution of Multifamily Housing: Post-Second World War Large Housing Estates versus Post-Socialist Multifamily Housing Types in Slovenia

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Kerbler

2021

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“…Wasted urban resources is a major problem, as is destruction of cities’ organic nature and diversity; both of these factors seriously affect preservation and inheritance of urban culture ( Jacobs, 2021 ). One solution to reducing waste is transforming some older buildings ( Ferretti and Grosso, 2019 ); to achieve this, scholars have proposed that the government unite community forces to promote community regeneration ( Gorczyca et al, 2020 ), emphasizing humanism and highlighting urban cultural values ( Vale, 2018 ; Williamson and Ruming, 2019 ).…”

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How to motivate planners to participate in community micro-renewal: An evolutionary game analysis

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Front. Psychol.

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In China, grassroots governments have attempted to introduce community planners into community micro-renewal, using their expertise to guide the design and implementation of community micro-renewal. However, issues remain to be studied and resolved, including how to effectively play the community planner role to coordinate multiple parties’ interests. This study constructed an evolutionary game model based on the behaviors of multiple subjects with participation by community planners, to establish the payment functions on both sides of the game under different choice strategies; explore evolutionary stabilization strategies by replication dynamic equations; and to analyze the conditions for the multi-party evolutionary game to reach the ideal stable state. The findings: (1) Show that financial subsidies provided by the grassroots government to community planners have a positive effect on the latter’s behavioral choices; (2) Illustrate the path of the tripartite evolutionary game among the grassroots government, residents, and community planners to reach ideal stability (incentive, active participation, and positive promotion); and (3) Describe how the project benefits from community planners promoting community micro-renewal can effectively promote their positive behavioral choices.

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“…Instead, smaller spatial experiments have turned out to be catalytic for initiating change and filling the gaps in urban governance networks (Pirrus & Leetmaa, 2022, in this issue). Despite admitting the positive effect of small-scale planning interventions as well as recent infills and commercial investments, CEE-based authors have laid out the limits of this approach and pointed towards an urgent need for more comprehensive planning and regeneration (Gorczyca et al, 2020;Marin et al, 2022, in this issue). • The lack of public sector involvement together with the micro-privatization of the 1990s has resulted in a far-reaching fragmentation of property rights, capacities, and responsibilities.…”

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Special issue Intro: housing estates in the era of marketization – governance practices and urban planning

Leetmaa

Bernt²

2022

J Hous and the Built Environ

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This paper introduces a Special Issue of the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment entitled “Housing estates in the era of marketization – governance practices and urban development”. The issue includes 10 European case studies on how marketization has impacted large housing estates (LHEs) across Europe. The collection includes novel contributions from well-studied countries like France or the United Kingdom, cases from Scandinavia and Mediterranean countries, as well as articles from post-socialist cities where the majority of LHEs are situated, and as such presents the diversity of experiences that has emerged in housing estates across Europe in the last two decades. Since the global turn towards neoliberal governance regimes at the end of the 20th century the commodification of housing, accompanied by the financialization of real estate, has not left any housing markets or market segments untouched. All articles focus on the interconnections between problems found in the development of housing estates and the processes of privatization and marketization. We aim to address two main research gaps: (1) we demonstrate that marketization and financialization are preconditions for the development of contemporary housing, incl. housing estate neighborhoods, and (2) we address the need for an up-to-date pan-European overview on contemporary urban governance and planning practices related to LHEs.

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Large housing estates in Poland – a missing link in urban regeneration?

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

The Evolution of Multifamily Housing: Post-Second World War Large Housing Estates versus Post-Socialist Multifamily Housing Types in Slovenia

The Evolution of Multifamily Housing: Post-Second World War Large Housing Estates versus Post-Socialist Multifamily Housing Types in Slovenia

How to motivate planners to participate in community micro-renewal: An evolutionary game analysis

Special issue Intro: housing estates in the era of marketization – governance practices and urban planning

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