Working paper presented at the EURS Seminar and Special Issue Institutional Investment in Urban Housing Markets: Global Trends, Local Manifestations and the State, 22-23 November 2023, Brussels This article illustrates how institutional investors in real estate advanced in the context of a “super-homeownership” country, as Romania and other parts of Eastern Europe have been called …
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Real estate properties from industrial platforms to financial assets. The case of Cluj [Enikő Vincze]
Lucrarea a fost prezentată la conferința “Liminal Spaces of Living | Inhabiting Liminality,” organizată între 25-29 septembrie 2023 în Iași și în Cluj de către Facultatea de Arhitectură a Universității Tehnice Gheorghe Asachi din Iași.
The spatiality of deindustrialization and real estate financialization in Romania [Enikő Vincze & George Iulian Zamfir]
Paper presented at the Panel Real estate finance and society, Conference Intersections of finance and society, the panel on Real estate finance and society, 14-15 September 2023, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Real estate development in Romania evolved as a site of capital accumulation in the context of the country’s integration as an emergent market into the …
On the ruins of socialist industries: capitalist accumulation through urban regeneration and entrepreneurial governance in real estate projects from Romana [Sorin Gog & Enikő Vincze]
Paper presented at INURA conference, “Right to the Planet – Reconsider the Urban Question”, June 29-30, 2023, Switzerland The transformation of state socialism into capitalism happened in Romania starting in the early 90s through a dramatic de-industrialization process, which significantly impacted many major economic centers. Some of these industrial cities never managed to recover and …
Privatization and crisis in Romania at the intersection of global and local forces [Ioana Vlad & Enikő Vincze]
Paper presented at ESA RN15 Second Mid-Term Conference “Which globalization during and after multiple crises?”, 18-19 May 2023, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Ioana Vlad and Enikő Vincze presented some of the REDURB results about the relationship between privatization-led deindustrialization and real estate development. The paper focused on the role of privatization in the …
Subordinate financialization of real estate development in the semi-peripheries of the global capital. The case of Romania [Ioana Florea & Enikő Vincze]
Paper presented at the XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology organized at Coimbra University with the title: Polarized societies? Challenges for sociology, Session on Classes, inequalities, and public policies – Capitalism and social policies. Ioana Florea and Enikő Vincze presented some of the REDURB results about the financialization of real estate development in the semiperipheral country …
Conferința “Transformări capitaliste în România: dezvoltare inegală și decalaje sociale”
Evenimentul a fost organizat în 23-24 martie 2023, în cadrul colaborativ a două granturi de cercetare: Muncă precară și locuire periferică, contract 22 din 01/11/2020 (RO-NO-2019-0496) și Formarea claselor sociale și reurbanizare prin dezvoltare imobiliară într-o periferie estică a capitalismului global (PCE 65 din 08/02/2021). Co-organizatorii instituționali ai conferinței au fost: Facultatea de Sociologie și Asistență …