Overview

Patterns of change in the former communist nations of Europe are now discernable in a way that was impossible to see in the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall. This text 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.

Full Product Details

9780754618140

Table of Contents

Reviews

'...this volume provides sobering lessons in what to do and not do in transforming any state-directed housing system into a market-based system. The volume should be on the shelf of all housing analysts and policy-makers in both the developed and developing worlds and in international agencies dealing with housing programmes.' Professor Larry S. Bourne, University of Toronto, Canada

Author Information

Dr. Stuart Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of York, UK. Dr. Sasha Tsenkova is Associate Professor in International Development & Planning at the University of Calgary, Canada. Contributors: Robert M. Buckley, Sasha Tsenkova, Ivan Tosics, Jozsef Hegedus, Andrew Roberts, Stuart Lowe, Martin Lux, Elena Szolgayova, Birgit Glock, Carsten Keller, Alle Elbers, Srna Mandic, Richard Sendi, Luan Deda, Judit Szekely.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available