This is an Open Access chapter of the volume Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and Financialization, edited by Enikő Vincze, Ioana Florea, Manuel B. Aalbers (Routledge, first published 2024). The chapter highlights that, in the wake of the 1990 regime change, Romanian state institutions backed up by European Union regulations supported …
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Chapter 2. The winding road of privatization. A path for real estate development into former state socialist economies [Enikő Vincze, Ioana Vlad ]
Chapter 2 of the volume analyzes the political economy of privatization in connection with changing industrial relations, showing how these processes acted as the first step in the state’s de-risking of real estate development. Get access The authors examine how, under the pressure of international organizations, the Romanian state facilitated primitive capital accumulation through massive …
Chapter 1. Global pension fund capitalism lands in Romania. Finance-led real estate and retail development [Manuel B. Aalbers]
Chapter 1 of the volume puts the issues addressed in our volume in a comparative frame to establish to what extent we are dealing with a global, a European, a CEE, or a uniquely Romanian story. Get access The analyzed Romanian cases display a combination of “common trends” (shift to capitalize on land, capital switching …
Introduction [Enikő Vincze, Ioana Florea, Manuel B. Aalbers]
The volume’s Introduction presents the objectives and methodological devices of our analysis and its theoretical frames, discussing the contributions it brings to critical urban studies and urban political economy, especially to the investigation of capitalist advancement in the second- and third-tier cities of global semi-peripheries. Get access The authors provide some statistical information about Romania …
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Video. Dezvoltare imobiliară inegală – partea 2: Rebranding urban și competiția între orașe [Enikő Vincze]
Seria de discuții despre dezvoltarea imobiliară inegală în România constă din prezentări făcute în limba română de către autorii și autoarele volumului publicat la editura Routledge în 2024, Uneven real estate development in Romania at the intersection of deindustrialization and financialization. În a adoua parte a acestei serii de discuții, Enikő Vincze, co-editoarea volumului și …
Video. Dezvoltare imobiliară inegală – partea 1: Privatizarea sectorului industrial [Enikő Vincze]
Seria de discuții despre dezvoltarea imobiliară inegală în România constă din prezentări făcute în limba română de către autorii și autoarele volumului publicat la editura Routledge în 2024, Uneven real estate development in Romania at the intersection of deindustrialization and financialization. În prima parte a acestei serii de discuții, Enikő Vincze, co-editoarea volumului și directoarea …
Post-industrial “myths” as truth [Ioana Florea]
The dominant capitalist discourses have insisted in the last three decades that the socialist economies have crumbled on their own, due to inefficient industrial production and distribution capacities. The strongest counter-narratives to this view were the workers stories and memories – but they were often disqualified by the dominant actors and information channels/platforms as “myths”. …
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The destructive creativity of capitalism – a view from financialized real estate development on the ruins of deindustrialization [Enikő Vincze]
This presentation was discussed at the Museum of Real Estate Development Assembly, organized by tranzit.ro/iasi, 03.08.2024. The video recordings of the presentations made during this second day by several participants of the event are available on YouTube,
Inter-urban competition for real estate development between “Silicon Valley of Europe” (Cluj) and “El Dorado of Real Estate Development” (Brașov) [Enikő Vincze]
The presentation was discussed at the Museum of Real Estate Development Assembly, organized by tranzit.ro/iasi, in the first day of the event, 02.08.2024.
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Free download – Chapter 3. De-risking in a context of uneven development and deindustrialized spaces. The advancement and financialization of real estate as business in Romania, by Ioana Florea and Enikő Vincze Book and e-book, accessible for purchase here: Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and FinancializationEdited By Enikő Vincze, Ioana …