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Risen from the Dead: From Slumming to Gentrification

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Risen from the Dead: From Slumming to Gentrification
 
Creator HIOB, Mart; Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture,
Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College, Estonia
NUTT, Nele; Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture,
Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College, Estonia
NURME, Sulev; Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture,
Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College, Estonia
DE LUCA, Fransesco; Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture,
Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College, Estonia
 
Subject Estonia; gentrification; urban revitalization; post-socialist; historical wooden architecture; cultural value; social diversity.
 
Description Political tides are evident in most community development practices. Sometimes it hinders good planning while at other times it aides development, and sometimes the unintended consequences of politics preserve neighborhoods for a long time, allowing for a totally different development outcome. This article is a detailed case study of one such neighborhood. This neighborhood, known as Supilinn, in Tartu Estonia was a rundown area slated for total demolition during Soviet occupation. Due to the lack of finances and low priorities, the former communist regime abandoned the idea of demolition and left the neighborhood to deteriorate further. Two decades later, Supilinn is a bustling community where young and old, rich and poor, existing and new, all co-exist. A community left to die has resurrected itself through bottom up planning and citizen initiatives to become one of the preferred places to live, so much so that the neighborhood now faces the threat of gentrification with social displacement and complete renewal. The authors, all active members in this neighborhood, have lived and worked there for a while. They tell the story of many such transformations across the landscape through the lens of one case study.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
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Date 2012-06-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/63
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2012: Issue No. 36 E/June; 92-105
18422845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/63/59
 
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