Challenged by real estate-driven development: The urban growth machine in Cluj
- Marina Mironica
- 2024
- Taylor&Francis
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032631608-10
The chapter takes a close look at the urban growth machine of a city emerging as a model for capitalist development in a semi-peripheral country such as Romania. Cluj-Napoca is exemplary of a city that made a huge recovery after deindustrialization. The convergence of economic restructuring toward high-value-added service sectors and intense investments in real estate shaped this transformation. I analyze these processes and interrogate the forms of urban governance underlying such “successful” evolutions, benefiting some while negatively impacting many city dwellers by permanently raising housing costs. The local governing structures that unify pluralistic interests in the city under the…
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