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dc.contributor.authorSoaita, Adriana Mihaela
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-08T23:01:35Z
dc.date.available2014-04-08T23:01:35Z
dc.date.issued2012-10-08
dc.identifier.citationSoaita , A M 2012 , ' Strategies for In Situ Home Improvement in Romanian Large Housing Estates ' , Housing Studies , vol. 27 , no. 7 , pp. 1008-1030 . https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2012.725833en
dc.identifier.issn0267-3037
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 43576660
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: dbc758a6-ddf6-41c4-b9e6-37794b4363a3
dc.identifier.otherBibtex: urn:a76d32d0af4a1b28e542226d4b5f2202
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84868156380
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/4562
dc.description.abstractSocio-economic and physical change have visibly affected post-socialist cities, yet the state of decay of their inherited large housing estates has only deepened throughout the 1990s, despite the change in tenure through policies of large-scale privatisation. Housing disrepair has now reached a critical stage that requires rapid private and public intervention. This paper examines the extent to which Romanian block residents have been able to improve in situ their housing conditions since 2000, the strategies they employed and the challenges they faced. It focuses on the often ignored private domain of housing, flats and blocks, where changes are also likely to be less visible. By analysing the process of individual utility metering and the practice of collective block management, I argue that besides economics, the unregulated housing context and a relaxed legal culture have challenged individual and collective action and have generated a framework of housing privatism.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofHousing Studiesen
dc.rightsCopyright 2012, Taylor & Francis. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Housing Studies: Soaita, A. M. (2012). "Strategies for in-situ home improvement in Romanian large housing estates" Housing Studies, 27(7), 1008-1030 available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02673037.2012.725833en
dc.subjectPost-communist housingen
dc.subjectEastern Europeen
dc.subjectRomaniaen
dc.subjectUtility meteringen
dc.subjectHousing privatismen
dc.subjectHousing managementen
dc.subjectSDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communitiesen
dc.titleStrategies for In Situ Home Improvement in Romanian Large Housing Estatesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2012.725833
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2014-04-09


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