CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Saric, Daniel |
|---|---|
| Title | Urban Renewal, Entrepreneurialism and the Right to the City: a Research of the Social Actors and Their Contestation of Gentrification in Post-socialist Zagreb |
| Summary | This thesis deals with a particular urban transformation project in Zagreb and an urban social movement that contested it. The project Flower was framed by the city government and the entrepreneur as a project of urban renewal that would start regeneration of the city’s center, and was contested by the Right to the city movement as a project that would lead to gentrification. I place this particular project in Zagreb in a broader context through the engagement with the existing literature of urban renewal, neoliberalism, entrepreneurialism and gentrification. I also locate the project the processes and actors that framed it and formed around it in the post-socialist space and society of Zagreb and Croatia. Through analyzing the Right to the City movement that contested the project I present and engage with the existing literature on the Right to the City. I give an intricate analysis of the processes of urban renewal in Zagreb and the actors that are supporting as well as actors that are contesting them. I assert that the analysis of practices of urban transformation and its contestations in Zagreb can be used to engage and question the existing literature but also be used as a tool for further analysis of processes in post-socialist cities that I see comparable. The interconnectedness of ideas and practices in what seem to be different urban material and social tissues can be analyzed with it. That entails a further development of a more intricate and elaborate middle reach explanatory framework that would have a strong footing in the awareness of the diversities of local elements, but also be open enough to grasp processes and engage with theories that analyze the processes on a broader level than that of a particular city or region. |
| Supervisor | Matejskova, Tatiana; Bodnar, Judit |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/saric_daniel.pdf |
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