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 …

The reform of collective land ownership in post-socialist contexts offers a useful window into
how changes in property rights shape and structure the dynamics of territorial …

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

This paper studies the arrival of digital nomads in Cluj, Romania. I focus upon double
dispossession, in which 'digital nomads' allegorise technocapitalist fantasies by …

Over the past decades, institutional landlords–from real estate companies like the German
giant Vonovia to private equity companies like Blackstone, or pension funds like ABP, the …

From the point when it was noted for the first time, gentrification has changed, and so has the
role of the State, as public intervention has become central to urban upgrading. A popular …

Over the last several years, an increasing number of scholarly contributions have
questioned the usefulness of the concept of gentrification for cases outside of the context in …

The Western Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca is among the few Central and East European
non-capital cities in economic recovery following the dismantlement of actually existing …

Recent studies from Central and Eastern Europe have documented a weak link between
gentrification and physical displacement, and have questioned whether the concept of …

Infrastructures are productive ethnographic entry points for understanding evictions. Three
analytic strategies have informed the research on the entanglements of evictions and …