Planning and Architecture as Determining Influences on the Housing Market: Budapest–Csepel’s Post–War Housing Estates

Tamás Egedy, Balázs Szabó, Hlib Antypenko and Melinda Benkő
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Tamás Egedy: Budapest Business School, University of Applied Sciences, Hungary / Geographical Institute of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungary
Balázs Szabó: Geographical Institute of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungary
Hlib Antypenko: Department of Urban Planning and Design, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Melinda Benkő: Department of Urban Planning and Design, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Urban Planning, 2022, vol. 7, issue 4, 325-338

Abstract: In Hungary, post-war housing estates can be categorised according to the time of their construction. Thanks to the development of construction technologies and urban planning, these so-called generations of housing estates demonstrate different features with regard to their physical layout and socio-economic characteristics. Socio-economic transformation that took place after the change of regime (1989) was widely affected by the physical parameters of these neighbourhoods and their dwelling stock. Our results show that different generations of housing estates have followed distinct trajectories in the housing market; thus, in addition to their geographical location within the city, planning, architecture, design, and the dwelling stock play a significant role in the market positions of these generations of housing estates. House prices have risen rapidly in Budapest since 2014 up until the pandemic in 2020, and housing estates became popular segments of the housing market. The main aim of this article is to investigate the role of urban planning, architecture and the built environment in this real estate process. The research is based on empirical real estate investigations, statistical house price analyses, and fieldwork undertaken on housing estates. The case study area is Csepel, a former industrial town which became the administrative district 21 of Budapest in 1950. All types of post-war generations of housing estates co-exist, and the majority of the population lives in such neighbourhoods. This special geographical context makes it possible to explore the influential role of the built environment in the housing market. Empirical results from these low- and mid-rise housing estates can make a major contribution to the more effective and successful development of high-rise neighbourhoods.

Keywords: architecture; Budapest; built environment; Csepel; housing estates; housing market; socio-economic characteristics; urban planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.17645/up.v7i4.5771

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