This paper intends to delve deeply into the current understanding of the ways in which the
transition from a central-based economy to an economy relying on free competition has led …

An important challenge for the research on post-socialist big cities is to identify the
mechanisms of their uncontrolled urban space growth. This analysis is focused on the built …

The fall of the socialist system in the late 1980s determined major changes in the economy
of former socialist countries. These changes affected especially the mono industrial cities …

Urban historical parks represent important cultural touristic objectives that are part of a city's
own identity. However, currently, the image of these areas in the eyes of contemporary …

The postsocialist process of urban restructuring came with important spatial, social, and
economic consequences. This triggered important transformations that remain palpable in …

Ex-industrial areas, which occupy about 15 per cent of Bucharest's surface, have generated
emergent ecologies during the post-socialist period. The open-ended, eclectic and hard-to …

Almost 30 years have passed since state-socialism came to an end, and several scholars
sought to establish how the Romanian housing market has unfolded within a changing …

ABSTRACT Ana, Ioana, Veda and Zsuzsi are scholars and activists based in Belgrade,
Bucharest and Budapest. They kindly agreed to perform this interview collectively, working …

Based on five cities and their hinterlands in Romania (Călărași, Cluj-Napoca, Ploiești,
Miercurea Ciuc and Târgu-Mureș) I compare actually-existing-socialist and neoliberal …

This article explores the aspirations of a small community in rural Bulgaria, devastated by
postsocialist economic decline. The community's economic and moral aspirations are linked …