The 'Housing Question' and the State-Socialist Answer: City, Class and State Remaking in 1950s Bucharest

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 281-296

  Chelcea, Liviu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bucharest; Desegregation; Housing policy; Nationalization; Romania; State socialism

Indexed keywords

HOUSING POLICY; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIALISM; URBAN HISTORY; URBAN HOUSING;

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HOUSING; LEGAL ASPECT; POLICY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; ROMANIA; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOUSING; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; PUBLIC HOUSING; PUBLIC POLICY; ROMANIA; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION;

BUCHAREST [BUCHAREST (ADS)]; BUCHAREST [ROMANIA]; ROMANIA;

EID: 84857445246     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2011.01049.x     Document Type: Article

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