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Successful rehabilitation or painful un-homing?

Kronstein, Bálint LU (2021) SIMV25 20211
Graduate School
Abstract
Displacement – the process when residents are forced away from their living space – is one of the most pressing urban development issues of present times. Gentrification used as an urban policy tool to provide support for urban renewal and to carry out the rehabilitation of cities is the main displacement-inducing mechanism. However, there is an existing intellectual bias, which leads to an inequality in academic research. Scholars are mostly concerned with the description and investigation of gentrification and not with processes of displacement. This thesis aims to partially fill this gap in existing research and investigates the causes and outcomes of gentrification-induced displacement in the 8th District of Budapest, Hungary.
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Displacement – the process when residents are forced away from their living space – is one of the most pressing urban development issues of present times. Gentrification used as an urban policy tool to provide support for urban renewal and to carry out the rehabilitation of cities is the main displacement-inducing mechanism. However, there is an existing intellectual bias, which leads to an inequality in academic research. Scholars are mostly concerned with the description and investigation of gentrification and not with processes of displacement. This thesis aims to partially fill this gap in existing research and investigates the causes and outcomes of gentrification-induced displacement in the 8th District of Budapest, Hungary.
In the thesis I argue that displacement is a serious issue and must be moderated through regulatory tools and adequate urban policing. Applying Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City perspective, the study focuses on how the district government is managing displacement. The data of the research is gathered through semi-structured interviews and the analysis of urban planning documents. The findings show that while decision-makers are aware of the problem and consider displacement as a negative process, this view is not always applied in the public policy and the redevelopment projects of the district. (Less)
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author
Kronstein, Bálint LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
An analysis of government-led displacement in the 8th District of Budapest
course
SIMV25 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
displacement, gentrification, Józsefváros, 8th District, district government
language
English
id
9050777
date added to LUP
2021-06-16 10:31:29
date last changed
2021-06-17 14:12:51
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  abstract     = {{Displacement – the process when residents are forced away from their living space – is one of the most pressing urban development issues of present times. Gentrification used as an urban policy tool to provide support for urban renewal and to carry out the rehabilitation of cities is the main displacement-inducing mechanism. However, there is an existing intellectual bias, which leads to an inequality in academic research. Scholars are mostly concerned with the description and investigation of gentrification and not with processes of displacement. This thesis aims to partially fill this gap in existing research and investigates the causes and outcomes of gentrification-induced displacement in the 8th District of Budapest, Hungary.
In the thesis I argue that displacement is a serious issue and must be moderated through regulatory tools and adequate urban policing. Applying Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City perspective, the study focuses on how the district government is managing displacement. The data of the research is gathered through semi-structured interviews and the analysis of urban planning documents. The findings show that while decision-makers are aware of the problem and consider displacement as a negative process, this view is not always applied in the public policy and the redevelopment projects of the district.}},
  author       = {{Kronstein, Bálint}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Successful rehabilitation or painful un-homing?}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}