Gentrification in post-communist cities

Abstract

Our knowledge of the gentrification of cities outside the west has often been limited by ideological and linguistic barriers as well as the more general impression that gentrification in other global regions has been muted or absent. However, it is increasingly clear that the implementation of market reforms in Eastern European ‘post-communist’ countries has often led to pronounced urban restructuring and neighbourhood changes that are, to some extent, similar to transformations mapped out for cities in the west. This chapter presents a review of current understanding of gentrification in selected post-communist cities. The post-communist world is both large and diverse and this chapter cannot cover the whole geographical area and encompass all the variety. It focuses on Budapest (Hungary), Prague (Czech Republic) and Tallinn (Estonia), three cities where gentrification has been researched and discussed, and builds upon this experience. Existing studies of other post-communist cities, such as Bratislava, Ljubljana or Warsaw, have not generally identified gentrification among the more important processes of urban change.

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