52 research outputs found
15. Manuel Aalbers and Iván Tosics: From the financialization of the city to planning for efficient housing
No full textThe 15th Lecture Series took place at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal and featured two talks by Manuel Aalbers and Iván Tosics.
The Lecture was organised in collaboration with the final conference of project exPERts: Making Sense of Planning Expertise (coordinated by Marco Alelgra; https://expertsproject.org/). The Lecture was chaired by Marco Allegra and Simone Tulumello and introduced by an AESOP ExCo representative.
In the first talk, Manuel Aalbers argued that a new form of urban development is emerging in which processes of financialization play a key role, and focus on the implications for the emerging, global housing crises. In the second talk, Iván Tosics reflected on how planning can contribute to efficient and inclusive housing, and the role of the various actors at stake.
Video available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yIwgdoyPeU&t=6spublishedVersio
RECENT REFORMS OF THE URBAN HOUSING SYSTEM IN CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPE
No full textThe urban housing system in most of Central and East Europe (CEE) is undergoing decentralization, deregulation, and privatization together with other basic changes due to the fall of the iron curtain, the demise of the Soviet Union, and the reinstitution of democracy. In most of the CEE, the urban housing sector is economically important, accounting for 10-20% of total economic activity. In view of its implications for land use, energy consumption, waste generation, and water pollution, it also has a significant effect on sustainability of development. A prime development need in the CEE, according to the World Bank, is to improve the performance of the urban housing sector for economic, social, environmental, and political reasons. This paper describes the urban housing model of the CEE before reform and analyzes changes to that model that began with the privatization reforms in the early 1990s. The paper details the strengths and weaknesses of the reforms and suggests that there are some resource distribution inequities that are accentuated under reform. It discusses the pricing issues in urban housing reforms, as well as the financing of urban housing, and briefly recounts matters related to mobility of labor, spatial issues of urban housing development, urban infrastructure, peripheral urban growth, and titling and property registration that have come about as state socialism is replaced by a more open market.Housing -- Economic aspects -- Europe, Eastern, Housing -- Economic aspects -- Europe, Central, Housing policy -- Europe, Eastern, Housing policy -- Europe, Central, Privatization -- Europe, Land tenure, Urban-- Europe, Community/Rural/Urban Development,
URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND URBAN POLICY
No full textDuring the last decade, in many European countries and cities, area-based Urban Development Programmes have been initiated, in response to major problems of poverty and social exclusion. Urban Development Programmes are usually developed in a complex interplay between different governmental levels, and implemented by a wide variety of public and non-public parties. This paper addresses the organisation of these programmes, concentrating in particular on the form and extent of 'public-public partnership', i.e. on the role that the different levels of the public administration play, both through the administrative system and through policy-making. The 'empirical' basis for the paper consists of case studies, derived from the UGIS project ('Urban Governance, Social Inclusion and Sustainability,' a research project financed by the European Commission, DG RTD). The short analysis makes clear that both the model of public administration, in terms of the extent and form of decentralisation, and the presence (or lack) of a national policy framework determine the extent to which UDPs can be planned, approved and implemented at the local level. One of the main findings is that the central influence over UDPs depends more on the urban policy framework of the central government than on the model of public administration of a country. Countries with strong national (regional) urban policies, sufficient decentralisation of public administration to the municipal level and the use of governance methods at the local level open up possibilities for successful UDPs. Without upper-level urban policy frameworks UDPs might be successful as well, but their replicability and the control over their external effects will not be ensured. Copyright (c) 2005 by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG.
Inequalities in east European cities: can redistribution ever be equalizing, and if so, why should we avoid it? A reply to Iván Szelényi
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Sustainable Land Use in Peri-Urban Areas: Government, Planning and Financial Instruments
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A Közép-Magyarország régió szétválasztása Budapest és környékének sikertelen erőfeszítései az együttműködésre = Splitting the Central Hungary region. Unsuccessful attempts of Budapest and Pest county for cooperation
No full textBudapest és vonzáskörzete kapcsolatának javítására a 2000-es években több erőfeszítés
is történt, a Közép-Magyarország régió mellett létrejött a Budapesti Agglomeráció Fej-
lesztési Tanács és a Budapesti Közlekedési Szövetség. A főváros 2004-ben azért voksolt a
régió együtt maradása mellett, mert ebben az ezer szállal összetartozó térségben látta a
nagyvárosi fejlődés zálogát. A kormány akkor ezt elismerte és azt is figyelembe vette,
hogy a szétválasztás esetén Pest megyének járó többlettámogatásokat az ország legsze-
gényebb részeinek juttatásaiból vonnák el. Most, egy évtizeddel később, ugyanez a hely-
zet, közben azonban a 2010-es években minden kooperációs intézményt felszámoltak. A
régió szétválasztása helyett az együttműködés erősítésének új formáit kellett volna fel-
tárni, hogy a régió valódi metropolisztérségként fejlődhessen, ne csak az EU-s támogatá-
sokvélthatásairatekintettel
Housing renewal in Hungary: from socialist non-renovation through individual market actions to area-based public intervention
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