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

Leetmaa, Kadri; Bernt, Matthias

doi:10.1007/s10901-022-09976-8

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“…The existing literature on CEE (and Romania), and in particular on housing, has hardly addressed the interlinkages of deindustrialization and changes in the housing regime, while it studied housing transformations in the region through a variety of theoretical perspectives and around numerous topics, such as policies (Kroes & Ambrose, 1991;Lux, 2003;Tsenkova, 2009); privatization (Anderson et al, 1997;Clapham, 1995;Clapham et al, 1996;Vincze, 2017); restitution (Chelcea, 2003;Fisher & Jaffe, 2000;Lux & Mikeszova, 2012;Lux et al, 2018); reform/ transition (Baross & Struyk, 1993;Turner et al, 1992); marketization (Cirman, 2008;Ionașcu et al, 2019;Leetmaa & Bernt, 2022;Mandič, 2010;Pichler-Milanovich, 2001;Pósfai & Nagy, 2017;World Bank, 1993); finance (Hegedüs & Struyk, 2005;Renaud, 1996Renaud, , 1999Struyk, 2000); welfare regime (Stephens et al, 2015); gentrification/ evictions : Chelcea, 2006;Chelcea et al, 2015;Sýkora & Špačková, 2022;Zamfir, 2022;Zamfirescu & Chelcea, 2021); segregation/ gated communities (Marcińczak et al, 2014;Polanska, 2010;Rufat & Marcińczak, 2020); social housing/ public housing (Hegedüs et al, 2013;Lux & Sunega, 2014); homeownership (Lux et al, 2021;Mandič, 2018;…”

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Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context

Vincze

2023

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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The article examines how deindustrialization as economic restructuring and housing regime changes evolved interconnectedly in Romania during the Great Transformation from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism. This article also explores how they acted as conditions for the emergence of a real-estate-development-driven housing regime (REDD-HR) alongside other factors. The analysis is from the perspective of the geographical political economy on the variegated pathways of these phenomena across borders and secondary statistical data collected by two research projects conducted in Romania in the past two years. In the Eastern semiperiphery of global capitalism or a country of the Global Easts with a socialist legacy, after 1990, the state restructured the economy by privatizing industry and public housing. During state socialism, the housing regime supported industrialization-based urbanization, whereas deindustrialization-cumprivatization in emerging capitalism facilitated the appearance of real estate development. On the one hand, the article enriches studies on deindustrialization by highlighting the role of housing in the transformation of industrial relations; on the other hand, the paper revisits housing studies by analyzing deindustrialization as a process with an impact on the changing housing regime. Altogether, deindustrialization-cum-privatization and the changing housing sector are analyzed as prerequisites of the REDD-HR.

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Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context

Vincze

2023

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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The state role in the housing sector in Hamburg and Havana challenges and successes of the state's claim to control in different political and planning systems

Santana Caraballo,

ElGamal,

Dobal Fonseca

et al. 2024

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Housing supply is a controversial topic across the globe. In Europe, for example, housing provision is fundamentally characterised by capitalist market economy. However, the intensity of state intervention differs significantly in the respective European countries. Germany is certainly one of the countries in which the state traditionally intervenes considerably in the housing market and attempts to control it through various measures. In addition, the stakeholders in the housing market are very different, and the housing market is highly segmented. In Cuba, as a rather atypical example for Latin America, where the housing market is largely liberalised, the housing market is very strongly regulated by the socialist Cuban state. In this article, we address the topics of housing supply by analysing the institutional framework conditions and the different levels of intervention in the very different systems of Germany and Cuba. In doing so, we find that the objectives at the planning and political levels in these two case studies are quite similar despite the major political and social differences. It has become clear, that there is a gap between the aspiration of the political-administrative planning system and the planning expectations of the citizens in both systems. However, it is also emphasised that the state's claim to intervene in the housing market and the regulations, production and financing conditions are very different. Using Vaus’s ‘most-different-case approach’, we emphasise for the two cities of Hamburg and Havana that although considerable successes have been achieved in both systems in terms of adequate housing provision, but major challenges still exist in both cities. The analysis has also made clear how important it is to combine housing policy demands with the realities of housing industry, real estate markets and urban planning perspectives.

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Built Space Hinders Lived Space: Social Encounters and Appropriation in Large Housing Estates

Friedrich,

Rößler

2023

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The fundamental structural, demographic, and socio-economic changes afflicting large housing estates in Eastern German cities raise questions about how these neighborhoods could be maintained and developed into attractive residential locations where people want to live and settle down. Besides personal, social, economic, and even administrative factors, individual location decisions are influenced by the physical conditions of space and how they affect a sense of “home”—a crucial precondition for long-term habitation. In terms of urban planning and regeneration activities, we ask: To what extent do the current physical and infrastructural conditions (“built space”) of large housing estates encourage residents to “feel at home”? We understand home as an atmosphere of well-being and belonging that is based on the individual and communal appropriation of spaces, which in turn presupposes the possibility of contact and social exchanges among neighbors. The concept of “home” we present here is grounded in philosophical anthropology, new phenomenology, and architectural theory. It provides a specific spatial approach to housing from which we develop indicators to evaluate space. In particular, we apply the concept of “lived space” to evaluate infrastructural amenities, open and green spaces, as well as built structures in three case studies of large housing estates in East German cities. We aim to uncover local potentials for and obstacles to spatial appropriation and encounters in these settings. This allows us to draw conclusions on how urban regeneration policies and measures can make large housing estates more liveable in the long term by promoting encounters and appropriation.

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

Cited by 4 publications

References 55 publications

Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context

Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context

The state role in the housing sector in Hamburg and Havana challenges and successes of the state's claim to control in different political and planning systems

Built Space Hinders Lived Space: Social Encounters and Appropriation in Large Housing Estates

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