Current global trends show that different regions of the globe face an increased level of
urbanization, and there is a swift aging process from the Western to the Eastern European …

While major urban areas are expanding, becoming more crowded, vegetated lands
areshrinking. Built-up densification limits the planning of large urban green spaces …

This opening chapter of the book Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries: The Legacy of
Central Planning in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania presents seven important takeaway …

Mid-twentieth-century large housing estates, which can be found all over Europe, were once
seen as modernist urban and social utopias that would solve a variety of urban problems …

Housing forms of poverty are often associated with the Global South, especially through the
depiction of slums. In this study, we systemize physical housing forms representing poverty …

In contrast to other countries in East Central Europe, Romania stands out because of a high
number of small and segregated Roma settlements. As an ethnic minority, the Roma are …

European countries have accumulated quite a wide experience in the reconstruction of the
multiapartment housing stock of the first period of mass industrial construction. But, in …

Given increasing economic affluence, improvement in housing conditions and population
decline in the last three decades, Romanians should be more likely to experience better …

This paper considers the links between the city size and transformation of inherited socialist
large housing estates within the process of post-socialist urban changes in Serbia. Based on …

This article examines patterns of within-building vertical segregation in Bucharest, Romania
under late socialism using micro-data (individual/household level information) from the 1992 …