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Romanian Suburban Housing : Home Improvement through Owner-building
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dc.contributor.author | Soaita, Adriana Mihaela | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-25T00:03:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-01-25T00:03:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Soaita , A M 2013 , ' Romanian Suburban Housing : Home Improvement through Owner-building ' , Urban Studies , vol. 50 , no. 10 , pp. 2084-2101 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098012471980 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0042-0980 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 43578835 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 85f4f6cc-e05b-4487-ab1b-860f034d829f | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84879809996 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/4419 | |
dc.description.abstract | The new suburban housing developments in post-socialist cities have been ubiquitous icons of socioeconomic and physical change. This paper examines suburban owner-built housing as a long-term strategy of home improvement in Romania. It analyses residents’ motivations and financial strategies to move up the housing ladder through owner-building and their responses to key neighbourhood problems, in particular poor public infrastructure and non-existent public facilities. I argue that owner-builders generally benefitted from the economic informality, the relaxed legal culture and the unregulated housing context of the Romanian post-socialist transition; but the absence of public actors has weakened their achievements, which is most apparent at neighbourhood level. The paper draws attention to a context of politico-economic reforms and a set of socio-cultural values of housing privatism in which resident responses may frequently generate consequential (collective) problems localised at the level of streets, neighbourhoods or even the whole society. | |
dc.format.extent | 23 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Urban Studies | en |
dc.rights | © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2013. The final, definitive version of this paper was first published in Urban Studies, Vol 50, Issue 10, pp 2084-2101 by Sage Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. The published version of record is available at: http://usj.sagepub.com/content/50/10/2084 | en |
dc.subject | Post-communist housing | en |
dc.subject | Suburban housing | en |
dc.subject | Eastern Europe | en |
dc.subject | Housing privatism | en |
dc.subject | Self-built housing | en |
dc.subject | SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure | en |
dc.subject | SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities | en |
dc.title | Romanian Suburban Housing : Home Improvement through Owner-building | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Postprint | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Development | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098012471980 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2014-01-25 |
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