Housing Change in East and Central Europe: Integration or Fragmentation
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Overview
Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, patterns of change to the former communist nations of Europe are now discernible in a way that was impossible to see in the initial years. This insightful book focuses on the case of changes in housing based on evidence collected from across the Central and Eastern European region.The volume adopts a conceptual framework and provides cross-regional analysis, amongst which is situated a series of more focused case studies. Issues examined include the consequences of the rapid privatization of state rental housing including the emergence of 'super-owner-occupied' countries, dramatic changes in urban structure and evidence that housing, having been the shock absorber against which wider economic restructuring has occurred, now faces a whole series of deferred problems. The enthusiasm with which the market economy was initially embraced must now be tempered by a more sober assessment of what in reality has happened.
About the Author:
About the Editors: Stuart Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of York, UK, and Sasha Tsenkova, Associate Professor in International Development and Planning, University of Calgary, Canada
Synopsis
In an assembly of 15 commissioned chapters, conference papers, and updated journal articles, researchers from western Europe and North America, and practitioners from eastern Europe look at the current state of housing and housing policy in formerly communist countries except Russia. After more than a decade, they say, patterns are becoming apparent that could not be discerned earlier. Most obvious is that the rapid privatization of the state rental housing stock is generating major social problems and dis-economics in the new housing market. Another feature highlighted is the low level of housing market activity in all the countries throughout the 1990s. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR