Residential Differentation in the Transition from Socialism to the Market Economy. The Case of Tallinn, Estonia
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1999
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In my PhD-thesis titled «Urban Transition - the Residential Differentation of Eastern European Cities in the Transition to the Market Economy» I will compare the effects of transition on residential differentation in Tallinn, Budapest, Prague and Warsaw. In the PhD workshop at Finse I would like to present a paper discussing the socialistic heritage of these four cities in general, and in particular the effects of the transition on the social structure of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The emphasis will be on the socioeconomic differentation, although the ethnic differentation is also discussed when relevant.
The method I will use in my PhD-thesis is comparative urban research. My empirical data consists of official statistics and the real estate market reports done by the real estate firms. I also intend to conduct interviews with key groups of urban development: real estate developers, finance managers, real estate market analysts and urban planners. In my presentation at Finse I will first discuss the results of my Master's thesis (January 1999) and secondly, the new empirical material consisting of interviews with experts and newspaper articles I have collected in Tallinn.
The discussion on residential differentation in socialist cities was launched by Iván Szelényi's study Urban Inequalities under State Socialism (1983). Because it was written already in the early 1970's, it no longer depicted the situation in the late 1980's.
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Book of abstracts : AESOP PhD workshop 1999, Finse, Depertment of Geography Univeristy of Bergen, Norway
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