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.

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..

Managing the displacement of population from the failing housing stock in the area's socio-economic development strategic planning system: The municipal dimension

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1006-1033
Author(s):  
Natal'ya E. BULETOVA ◽  
Aleksandr I. MORDVINTSEV ◽  
Dmitrii S. POLYAKOV
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Management Culture ◽  
Culture Influence ◽  
Capital Construction ◽  
City Systems ◽  
Housing Facilities

Subject. This article examines trends in the management of unfit housing facilities within the framework of the implementation of national and federal projects. Objectives. The article aims to define the specifics of the process of managing the resettlement of citizens from unfit housing facilities and improve the implementation of municipal programmes in the field of housing policy. Methods. For the study, we used a systems analysis, and the techniques used in professional practices of control and accounts bodies. Results. The article describes the peculiarities of the management of unfit housing stock and the problems of the participants of relocation in Volgograd. The article also proposes a system of measures to improve resettlement management and substantiates the benefits of the project-based approach. Conclusions. Historical features of housing construction, natural and climatic factors, management culture influence the choice of the way to solve the problem of unfit housing stock settlement. This requires a differentiated approach to resettlement management. The introduction of innovative capital construction technologies as well as smart city systems can contribute to solving the strategic task of minimizing unfit housing stock in the mid-term.

The Relocation of Villagers into Public Housing: Some Suggestive Findings from a Singaporean Stud*1

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-54
Author(s):  
Shimon E. Spiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Urban Fringe ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
Housing Estates

AbstractThe relocation of villagers into modern high-rise housing estates is, in most countries, the exception rather than the rule. The urbanization of rural populations is, more typically, a gradual process. Rural migrants first settle in inner-city slums and squatter areas of the urban fringe, where they are often able to maintain some of the living arrangements and patterns of social organization which are characteristically rural Only after additional movements within these areas of first settlement, and after sufficient time had elapsed to allow for some assimilation into urban life, will some of the migrants, or their descendants, move into high rise public housing estates. This form of housing is, in many respects, the ultimate in urban living. It is characterized by nuclear families, occupying rigidly defined space, living among strangers, and subject to bureaucratic rules and controls. However, the fact that families typically move to housing estates after having experienced some form of urban living may ease the transition. Also, the fact that slum dwellings are often of physically inferior quality compared to estate housing3 may increase the willingness of new residents to accept some of the constraints of estate living.

scholarly journals Selling Spectacular Urban Life: Urban Space and Lifestyle in the Promotion Media of Apartment in Yogyakarta

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
Ratna Noviani ◽  
Elok Santi Jesica
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Extended Time ◽  
Time Compression ◽  
Living Space ◽  
One Stop ◽  
The One ◽  
Urban Arts ◽  
The City

This article discusses how urban life is represented through the Barsa City, Uttara the Icon, and The Palace apartment advertisements and promotional videos. Applying Guy Debord's idea of spectacle to examine how urban life is transformed into visualization and commodification, also George Ritzer’s idea of re-enchantment of the disenchanted world and the new means of consumption. This article is aimed to analyze the position of apartments in the urban space of Yogyakarta that is discursively constructed through apartment promotional media. The conclusion of this research shows that apartments are functionalized to create the spectacle of the city. Urban space and life are aestheticized and spectacularized, in which apartments are displayed as part of dramatic and extravagant urban arts. Presented as one-stop-serving buildings, the apartments also promote the fusion of living space, urban style experience, and consumption which lead to the difficulty in distinguishing spatial boundaries. The advertisements and promotional videos of the apartment in Yogyakarta also promote temporal paradox. On the one hand, it promotes time compression and speed, meanwhile, on the other hand it promotes prolonged and extended time to foster consumption in the urban space.

scholarly journals INFLUENCES OF HOUSING SETTINGS AND DESIGNS IN FULFILLING THE MALAY RESIDENTS’ SOCIAL CULTURES

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Aimran Samsudin ◽  
Syed Zainol Abidin Idid
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Design Attributes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Housing Estates

This study discusses on the influence of settlement settings and an ideal housing design that can shape a good society and excel in behaviour, the value of life and lifestyle daily. Living environment affects its inhabitants, including the opportunity for the Malay community to practice their norm and values based on Islamic teachings. There are two housing categories in Malaysia, namely as an unplanned settlement (kampongs) and planned settlement (urban housing). Nowadays, majority of the Urban-Malay community are living in modern housing estates in urban areas where the living sphere is different from a traditional settlement such as kampong in rural area. The living environment setting such as the kampongs encourage Malay residents to practice their social cultures. The Malay socio-cultural aspect is established slowly and evolves through time based on values required by religion and inherited from one generation to another. Malays have to comply with all the teachings and practice the values required by Islam. This paper suggests that, to meet such Malay residents’ need, a certain physical design attributes from the kampongs should be applied in the modern housing environment at two different levels, called as the micro (house unit) and macro (settlement or neighbourhood) level. Based on the various literature sources, the requirement of optimum living space, the social activities, the family relationship, the neighbourhood concepts and preservation of the privacy element within Malay settlement have been discussed. As a comparison, the existing of linked housing setting has been reviewed in order to compare between the modern and traditional living environments. This paper proposed that the Muslim-Malay resident social cultures are a basis of Malay lifestyle and should be taken into account during the design of a settlement as a whole living environment setting.

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 Roof top extensions for multifamily houses in Slovakia

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
K. Szekeres
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Multifamily Housing ◽  
World War ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Apartment Buildings ◽  
Building Maintenance ◽  
Technical Solutions

Roof top extensions for multifamily houses in SlovakiaIn the countries of the European Union with the exception of Malta, approximately 100.1 million multifamily dwelling units are situated. These dwellings count for an average of 47.5% of the total housing stock in European Union countries. At present in Slovakia and also other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, there are vast housing areas which were built after World War II. Slovakia's multifamily housing stock was privatized during the 1990s. Considering that the economy of Slovakia is not capable of replacing the existing housing fund, which is located in the multifamily houses that were built after World War II, it is necessary to place an increased emphasis on the renovation of this housing fund. The expenditures for the refurbishment of multifamily housing stock in recent decades, when compared with the demand, have been at a very low level. The main problems involving the current multifamily housing stock in Slovakia are: the need for modernization, the low level of energy efficiency, and the insufficient level of building maintenance. One of the options for creating sufficient sources for the renovation of apartment buildings is to utilize the roofs of apartment buildings as construction areas for building additional floors (over - roofing). The means acquired from the sale of the new floors after deducting the costs can be used for renovation. It is a matter of a one-time possibility, which is limited by many factors that depend on the localization and constructive technical solutions for apartment buildings.This article is an outcome of the SuReFit "Sustainable Roof Extension Retrofit for High-Rise Social Housing in Europe" international research project.

scholarly journals Simulation of the System of Repairs of Apartment Buildings

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 03016
Author(s):  
Serafima Sokova ◽  
Vladimir Kalinin
Keyword(s):  
Housing Stock ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Safe Operation ◽  
Apartment Buildings ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Real State

the main issue of the study is the problem of improving the efficiency of the housing sector. The current state system does not ensure the proper efficiency of the housing stock, which is increasingly manifested in the growing gap between the cost of operation of apartment buildings, aimed at ensuring the quality of their functioning and the real state of this quality. In recent years, numerous regulatory documents have been adopted to ensure the normal maintenance of buildings, but a comprehensive understanding of the relationship of various activities with technical and economic solutions, in most cases, has an empirical nature, not confirmed by a strict analytical justification. The purpose of the study is a systematic integrated approach to solving problems to improve the efficiency of maintenance of housing using the proposed mathematical apparatus, which allows you to objectively, fully and accurately assess the relationship of economic and technical indicators. All total socially significant economic indicators of operational measures can be the basis of legislative regulation in the industry. Conclusions: criteria for assessing the effective and safe operation of buildings, optimal for residents of apartment buildings and management companies serving these houses.

scholarly journals The Study on the Residential Space in Culture-led Urban Regeneration: a case study of Residential Space in Henan

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Dan-Dan Fan ◽  
Se-Hwa Kim
Keyword(s):  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Henan Province ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Space Pattern ◽  
Residential Culture ◽  
Suitable Space ◽  
Space Layout ◽  
Residential Space

The concept of culture-led urban regeneration is one design solution for restoring urban vitality and re-creating urban culture based on the tangible and intangible cultural resources of the city. As an important part of culture, residential culture is changing with the development of society. Literature shows that there are still deficiencies in the study of residential culture in culture-led urban regeneration. This study tried to find the cultural identity and belonging in the residential space in one hand, create a suitable space layout in the other hand. The living space pattern of traditional and modern is summarized. The cultural characteristics of Henan province have been abstract and offering the basis of the improvement solution for living space from the perspective of cultural. This study offered the reference to the culture-led urban regeneration of Henan province.

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