The kaleidoscope of gentrification in post-socialist cities

Jan Kubeš and Zoltán Kovács
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Jan Kubeš: University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Zoltán Kovács: Hungarian Academy of Sciences and University of Szeged, Hungary

Urban Studies, 2020, vol. 57, issue 13, 2591-2611

Abstract: Countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have transformed from a centrally planned communist system to a market economy and liberal democracy after 1990. The rapidly changing social and power relations have been gradually manifested in the spatial pattern of cities. After the turn of the millennium, a growing number of papers reported that the regeneration of inner-city neighbourhoods intensified, generating population change in certain areas. Authors writing on urban renewal and gentrification in CEE have been inspired by the typology of gentrification elaborated in Western contexts, even though historical legacies and specific local conditions set serious limitations on the use of such concepts. The aim of this paper is to scrutinise the essential features of urban change and gentrification in post-socialist cities, discussing the main pre-conditions for, actors in and the resulting types of this process. Existing literature in the field has been systematically collected, analysed and compared. According to our findings the classic stage model of gentrification cannot be used in post-socialist cities, partly because the process is still in its infancy and partly because several hybrid forms of gentrification-like processes hide the spatial effects of market-based renewal. The variegated forms of urban change are the result of historical legacies, path dependencies and a set of factors embedded in local contexts. The paper highlights some of the research gaps in the field.

Keywords: displacement/gentrification; housing; neighbourhood; redevelopment/regeneration; review; é©±é€ /绅士化; ä½ æˆ¿; 街区; å† å¼€å ‘/å† ç”Ÿ; 审查 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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