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 …
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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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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.
Collective volume @ Routledge
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 …
“Why invest in Romania?” Investment strategies and state interventions advancing real estate development in semipheripheries
Talk by Prof. Enikő Vincze, housing justice activist at Căși sociale ACUM!/Social housing NOW! in Cluj, Romania, given within the seminar series organized by the Torino-based Beyond Inhabitation Lab project A synopsis based on the recorded presentation of 21.03.2024 and the PowerPoint presentation prepared for the talk. The talk was inspired by the results of …
Rezumatul raportului științific pentru anul 2023
În anul 2023, ultimul an al cercetării “Formarea claselor sociale și reurbanizare prin dezvoltare imobiliară într-o periferie estică a capitalismului global” (2021-2023), proiect PCE 65/2021, Cod PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-1730 (REDURB), activitățile proiectului au inclus:
Summary of scientific report for 2023
In 2023, the last year of the research “Class formation and re-urbanization through real estate development in an eastern periphery of global capitalism” (2021-2023), PCE project 65/2021, Code PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020 -1730 (REDURB), the project activities included:
Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and Financialization [Edited by Enikő Vincze, Ioana Florea and Manuel B. Aalbers ]
This is the collective English language volume realized by the team of the REDURB project as its major outcome published at Routledge. The third chapter of the volume (De-risking in a context of uneven development and deindustrialized spaces. The advancement and financialization of real estate as business in Romania) is Open Access. The central objective …