scholarly journals Between Community and Private Ownership in Centrally Planned Residential Space: Governing Parking in Socialist Housing Estates

2019 ◽  
pp. 321-336
Author(s):  
Tauri Tuvikene
Keyword(s):  
Private Ownership ◽  
Residential Space ◽  
Housing Estates

scholarly journals Enlargement of apartments in socialist housing estates in Skopje under transition: The tension between individual preferences and collective action

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasna Mariotti ◽  
Daniel Baldwin Hess
Keyword(s):  
Housing Stock ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Apartment Buildings ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Future Demands ◽  
Residential Space ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Neighborhood Level

AbstractThe post-socialist urban restructuring of Skopje, North Macedonia has been characterized by significant changes in the built fabric of the city, resulting from the political, economic and societal processes following the dissolution of Yugoslavia. In early 1990s and post-privatization, there was a dynamic transformation of the city’s housing stock in post-WWII prefabricated apartment buildings. Flat owners in socialist-era housing estates in Skopje modified their apartments by expanding and enclosing balconies, thus gaining more living space. Garages were converted into shops and ground-floor and first-floor apartments were renovated into offices, resulting in commercialization of previous residential space. To better understand the spatial disorder triggered by transformation of housing estates during the lengthy transition from a centrally-planned system to a market economy, this article evaluates various spontaneous and planned practices of transformation of residential space in housing estates in post-socialist Skopje. We analyze these changing practices of transformation through fieldwork and focus group discussions with residents. We also review archival material and administrative and legal documents, including municipal master plans and national planning laws and decisions related to housing estates in post-1991 Skopje. Findings emphasize the complex interplay between many actors, ideologies and interests that shape the experience of urban life in post-socialist Skopje, evidenced by outcomes related to housing choice and renovation practice, especially the enclosure of balconies for providing more living space. Such interventions are viewed as important steps towards improving living conditions in prefabricated apartment buildings in Skopje. Individual decisions about apartment renovation affect urban planning at the neighborhood level, and the findings from this research thus inform residential mobility and neighborhood-level strategic decision making. The aim is to help neighborhoods—built in an earlier socio-political era under a central planning system—to adapt to future demands.

Mass Prefabricated-Panel Housing Construction in Private Ownership in the Czech Republic

2014 ◽  
Vol 1020 ◽  
pp. 692-697
Author(s):  
Eva Špačková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Building Facade ◽  
Housing Estates

Housing estates thus have been and will continue to be a long-term part of the housing the Czech Republic. Research addresses the artistic and architectural level of regeneration of prefabricated-panel buildings in the past twenty year, shows how the form of reconstructed facades has developed and illustrates the use of the building facade in the context of the environment in which the residential building is located.

scholarly journals Society of Workers’ Housing Estates and its attempt to overcome the residential crisis in interwar Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 025-036
Author(s):  
Jakub Frejtag
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Great War ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Owned Company ◽  
Residential Space ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Housing Estates

After the Great War, one of the most challenging obstacles of the newly recreated Polish state was to ensure residential space for the group of citizens most vulnerable to exclusion. Labourers indeed required an inexpensive and modest habitations maintaining modern sanitary standards. Such facilities were underrepresented in Poland at that time. Mostly overpriced and unsanitary flats were offered in 19th-century housing. Also new housing, although with all modern amenities, did not provide flats with parameters that could meet the expectations of the least wealthy of labourers. In such circumstances, at the end of 1934, a new state-owned company was created – the Society of Workers’ Housing Estate (Towarzystwo Osiedli Robotniczych). Its aim was to build and grant loans for the construction of residential areas with flats meeting the needs of the lower-class labourers. Despite the difficulties, up to 1939, thousands of new flats were built under the Society’s initiative. All these investments exemplify a successful and far-reaching social policy of Second Polish Republic that made residential crisis manageable.

scholarly journals Gendering Residential Space: From Squatter and Slum Housing to the Apartment Estates in Turkish Renewal Projects

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 808-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahire Erman ◽  
Burcu Hatiboğlu
Keyword(s):  
Field Studies ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
Residential Space ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Dimensions Of Space

This article argues for the need to understand gendered dimensions of space in a contextualized way. It investigates residential space in three different types of housing settings of the poor, namely, a peripheral squatter neighborhood coded by rurality, a central slum neighborhood coded by criminality, and the housing estates in squatter/slum renewal projects coded by middle–class urbanity. Based on two field studies conducted in Ankara, Turkey's capital, it challenges the feminine–private versus masculine–public dichotomy: With women's presence inside the neighborhood, the squatter area was a “feminine space,” whereas, with the violent control of neighborhood spaces by local men, the slum area was a “masculine space.” Through its association with urban modernity, the public/private divide was enforced in the housing estates. While in the first housing estate, women's informal practices in its public spaces “feminized” and “ruralized” the estate, in the second housing estate, it made women feel safe inside apartments.

scholarly journals Update Cheryomushki: perspectives for future housing

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (68) ◽  
pp. 112-120
Author(s):  
Barbara Engel
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Residential Housing ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Large Housing Estates ◽  
Residential Space ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Valuable Role

The shortage of residential space in many urban areas and the question about how this can be alleviated leads to the existing large residential housing estates, which are of great significance when it comes to providing living space for broad sections of the population in the future. Large housing estates potentially have a valuable role to play in providing housing – the dwellings there are highly adaptable, making them suitable for designing a living environment with few barriers, and they also have a high proportion of open spaces. In order to transform prefabricated dwelling areas into attractive neighborhoods and wanted housing not only the existing urban fabric have to be renovated and new types of dwelling integreated but as well the open spaces shall be improved..

A Comparative Overview of the Fair Wear and Tear Exception: the Duty of Holders of Temporary Interests to Preserve Property

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Raffaele Caterina
Keyword(s):  
Common Core ◽  
Complete Solution ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Personal Rights ◽  
Wear And Tear ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Relationship

“A system of private ownership must provide for something more sophisticated than absolute ownership of the property by one person. A property owner needs to be able to do more than own it during his lifetime and pass it on to someone else on his death.”1 Those who own things with a long life quite naturally feel the urge to deal in segments of time. Most of the owner's ambitions in respect of time can be met by the law of contract. But contract does not offer a complete solution, since contracts create only personal rights. Certain of the owner's legitimate wishes can be achieved only if the law allows them to be given effect in rem—that is, as proprietary rights. Legal systems have responded differently to the need for proprietary rights limited in time. Roman law created usufruct and other iura in re aliena; English law created different legal estates. Every system has faced similar problems. One issue has been the extent to which the holder of a limited interest should be restricted in his or her use and enjoyment in order to protect the holders of other interests in the same thing. A common core of principles regulates the relationship between those who hold temporary interests and the reversioners. For instance, every system forbids holder of the possessory interest to damage the thing arbitrarily. But other rules are more controversial. This study focuses upon the rules which do not forbid, but compel, certain courses of action.

Road Patterns of Housing Estates in Hungary

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pál Hegyi
Keyword(s):  
Housing Estates

Road patterns of housing estates in Hungary

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Pál Hegyi
Keyword(s):  
Housing Estates

A Public Empire

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Pravilova
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
State Reform ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Public Status ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
The Face

“Property rights” and “Russia” do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the issues of ownership. This book refutes this widely shared conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. Most importantly, the book shows the emergence of the new practices of owning “public things” in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good. The book analyzes how the belief that certain objects—rivers, forests, minerals, historical monuments, icons, and Russian literary classics—should accede to some kind of public status developed in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. Professional experts and liberal politicians advocated for a property reform that aimed at exempting public things from private ownership, while the tsars and the imperial government employed the rhetoric of protecting the sanctity of private property and resisted attempts at its limitation. Exploring the Russian ways of thinking about property, the book looks at problems of state reform and the formation of civil society, which, as the book argues, should be rethought as a process of constructing “the public” through the reform of property rights.

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