Restructuring socialist housing estates and its impact on residents’ perceptions: “Renovatsiia” of khrushchevki in St. Petersburg, Russia

Trumbull, Nathaniel

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“…'Giveaway' privatization became the delineating feature of the post-socialist housing systems, denoting withdraw of the state [41]. Hence, in circumstances where the rights, preferences and finances of the homeowners need to be taken into account, a rehabilitation should be based on effective cooperation between all stakeholders -city government, relevant public institutions, private investors and local population, with the aim of reaching consensus on actions and making decisions from which all of them would benefit [42].…”

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Post-socialist Development and Rehabilitation of Large Housing Estates in Central and Eastern Europe: A Review

2019

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In the socialist times, large housing estates in the Central and East European (CEE) cities were praised for effectively resolving the housing crisis, providing good and homogenous housing conditions at reasonable costs and enabling rapid urbanization. Following the collapse of communism, they have met with various consequences of low-cost construction based on prefabrication, lack of repair and upgrading investments and neglected or deferred maintenance, and the Western experience drew attention to the socioeconomic outcomes of further physical downgrading. As the flats located in these estates make up almost half of the total urban housing stock in the CEE region, thus having a significant impact on the overall housing quality, this paper discusses the post-socialist context of development of these estates based on the existing literature and an interdisciplinary analytical approach, with an emphasis on their rehabilitation. The research questions relate to the problems they have been affected by, mechanisms and methods of interventions and multifaceted differences between the CEE and West European estates. The aim of the paper is to analyse the development and rehabilitation challenges that these estates have encountered during post-socialism and thus join the discussion on future prospects and feasible and sustainable upgrading related policies and programmes.

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Post-socialist Development and Rehabilitation of Large Housing Estates in Central and Eastern Europe: A Review

2019

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“…Besides the aspects of finance and purposefulness, stakeholders must understand in which direction the city wants to develop. As regards sustainability, socialist housing estates as compact urban settlements present a far more preferred form of European idea about sustainability than suburban low-density settlements (Tosics 2005;cit. Muliuolytė 2013).…”

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“…A building-by-building renovation strategy has shown its incapability to resolve the bigger social issues (whether related to neighbourhood's social decline or energy efficiency etc.) in socialist housing estates in the Western countries that were already present during the 1980s (Tosics 2005;cit. Muliuolytė 2013).…”

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Housing estates in the Baltic countries: the legacy of central planning in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Jany

2020

Journal of Baltic Studies

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“…Yet, as the residents are being rehoused to newly built and more spacious flats, the majority is supportive of the program [55]. In St. Petersburg, however, the government's initiative with the same goal had a more commercial approach and depended on private rather than public investments, offering the land to developers at discounted prices, allowing them to increase the residential densities, and relying on their commitment to relocate the residents, which has caused public dissatisfaction [56]. Meanwhile, on the other side of the post-socialist world map, the governments of Chinese cities have taken the demolition approach to the extremes, opting for the Pruitt-Igoe model to deal with a persistent urban land shortage and the lack of housing to meet contemporary demands [57].…”

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Demolition-Based Urban Regeneration from a Post-Socialist Perspective: Case Study of a Neighborhood in Novi Sad, Serbia

2021

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Although a growing body of literature examines the post-socialist European context of urban regeneration, studies on the demolition-based approaches are relatively scarce. Moreover, the regeneration policies of cities in non-EU Balkan countries with a distinctive transitional path remain largely unexplored. The paper contributes to filling these voids by investigating a specific demolition-based urban regeneration strategy named permanent reconstruction, which has been launched in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second largest city, and applied to low-density neighborhoods with a derelict housing stock, being seen as a tool for achieving sustainable urban development. The specific research aims are to explain the origin of this strategy; analyze the institutional and planning framework, mechanisms, and dynamics of the regeneration process through a case study; and assess its outcomes based on a mixed methodology. The main research objective is to identify the issues of a post-socialist entrepreneurial urban governance, primarily deriving from Serbia’s distorted transition, which hampered the development of a strategic, integrated, and locale-conscious approach. The findings suggest that Novi Sad and other Serbian cities necessitate socially responsible and context-perceptive regeneration that would produce sustainable regeneration projects. The authors propose the means for redefining them, emphasizing the responsibilities of the public sector and the significance of involving the local community in the planning and decision-making process.

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Restructuring socialist housing estates and its impact on residents’ perceptions: “Renovatsiia” of khrushchevki in St. Petersburg, Russia

Cited by 9 publications

References 47 publications

Post-socialist Development and Rehabilitation of Large Housing Estates in Central and Eastern Europe: A Review

Post-socialist Development and Rehabilitation of Large Housing Estates in Central and Eastern Europe: A Review

Housing estates in the Baltic countries: the legacy of central planning in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Demolition-Based Urban Regeneration from a Post-Socialist Perspective: Case Study of a Neighborhood in Novi Sad, Serbia

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