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<p>The article examines how deindustrialization as economic restructuring and housing regime changes evolved interconnectedly in Romania during the Great Transformation from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism. This article also explores how they acted as conditions for the emergence of a real-estate-development-driven housing regime (REDD-HR) alongside other factors. The analysis is from the perspective of the geographical political economy on the variegated pathways of these phenomena across borders and secondary statistical data collected by two research projects conducted in Romania in the past two years. In the Eastern semiperiphery of global capitalism or a country of the Global Easts with a socialist legacy, after 1990, the state restructured the economy by privatizing industry and public housing. During state socialism, the housing regime supported industrialization-based urbanization, whereas deindustrialization-cumprivatization in emerging capitalism facilitated the appearance of real estate development. On the one hand, the article enriches studies on deindustrialization by highlighting the role of housing in the transformation of industrial relations; on the other hand, the paper revisits housing studies by analyzing deindustrialization as a process with an impact on the changing housing regime. Altogether, deindustrialization-cum-privatization and the changing housing sector are analyzed as prerequisites of the REDD-HR.</p>
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The article examines how deindustrialization as economic restructuring and housing regime changes evolved interconnectedly in Romania during the Great Transformation from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism. This article also explores how they acted as conditions for the emergence of a real-estate-development-driven housing regime (REDD-HR) alongside other factors. The analysis is from the perspective of the geographical political economy on the variegated pathways of these phenomena across borders and secondary statistical data collected by two research projects conducted in Romania in the past two years. In the Eastern semiperiphery of global capitalism or a country of the Global Easts with a socialist legacy, after 1990, the state restructured the economy by privatizing industry and public housing. During state socialism, the housing regime supported industrialization-based urbanization, whereas deindustrialization-cumprivatization in emerging capitalism facilitated the appearance of real estate development. On the one hand, the article enriches studies on deindustrialization by highlighting the role of housing in the transformation of industrial relations; on the other hand, the paper revisits housing studies by analyzing deindustrialization as a process with an impact on the changing housing regime. Altogether, deindustrialization-cum-privatization and the changing housing sector are analyzed as prerequisites of the REDD-HR.

Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context

Professor at the Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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The article examines how deindustrialization as economic restructuring and housing regime changes evolved interconnectedly in Romania during the Great...

Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context

Published Online: Nov 23, 2023

Page range: 25 - 73

Received: May 01, 2023

Accepted: Aug 01, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2023-0002

Keywords
deindustrialization, housing, real estate development, Romania, semiperiphery, capitalism

© 2023 Enikő Vincze, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Deindustrialization and the Real-Estate– Development–Driven Housing Regime. The Case of Romania in Global Context

Published Online: Nov 23, 2023

Page range: 25 - 73

Received: May 01, 2023

Accepted: Aug 01, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2023-0002

Keywordsdeindustrialization, housing, real estate development, Romania, semiperiphery, capitalism

© 2023 Enikő Vincze, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
deindustrialization, housing, real estate development, Romania, semiperiphery, capitalism