CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Cook, Ian Michael |
|---|---|
| Title | A Day and a Night in the People's Theatre: Gentrification as the Homogenisation of Rhythms |
| Summary | Budapest’s VIII district is currently undergoing widespread and divergent forms of gentrification, this paper analyses how the process plays out in the public space of one street, through the analysis of urban rhythms. The district has the worst reputation in the city; its name is synonymous with crime, unemployment, crumbling housing stock and poverty. The gentrification of the district is driven by the search for capital expansion, with the state aiding the market, remoulding itself to attract capital flows. This has partly manifested itself in the concerted effort of the local government to reverse the negative image through different urban rejuvenation programmes. The state also plays an important role in ‘cleansing’ an area of unacceptable behaviour, to help ease the expansion of the market. Utilising Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, it is possible to examine how the everyday cyclical rhythms of residents clash with the mechanical linear rhythms of capital expansion. Analysis of these collisions reveals the insidious nature of the state’s attempt at sanitising public space, at the homogenisation of urban rhythms. |
| Supervisor | Dafinger, Andreas; Bodnar, Judit |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/cook_ian.pdf |
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