CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Ferenczi, Orsolya |
|---|---|
| Title | Gentrification and Community Building: Social Processes in the Corvin Quarter of Budapest |
| Summary | This study will show how the installation of a new residential quarter influences the everyday life of an already very varied community living in a central district of Budapest. The urban renewal program called Corvin Project aims to create a “new city center” by integrating the preexisting equipments of the district with the new infrastructure: the mall, the wellness center and the promenade. The common aim of the state, the municipality and the private investors is to stop the ghettoization in the middle of the city and to establish a new, flourishing node of the center. The strategy of the urban planners in the district was to combine the completely new promenade with streets where some of the old houses has been demolished and rebuilt, others renovated and a few of them kept in the original, ruined condition. How can we define gentrification in a post socialist context? Who are the social actors in that process? How sustainable is the present stage defined by the coexistence of substandard housing inhabited by extremely poor dwellers and the new residences of the newcomers who differ from the old community in their age, class and financial situation? |
| Supervisor | prof. Judit Bodnár prof. Prem Kumar Rajaram |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/ferenczi_orsolya.pdf |
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