Abstract
"Gentrification and Place Identity Change in Gheorgheni, City of Cluj-Napoca. The scientific study at hand takes a considerable and representative area of the massive socialist housing estates from the City of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as a case study area and intends to ascertain, through a series of interviews with members of the local community, the phenomenon of gentrification and its impact on neighbourhood identity change in the last quarter century. The results suggest significant changes at microterritorial level in terms of place identity correlated with substantial gentrification phenomena that took place after the collapse of the communist regime in 1989. Keywords: gentrification, place identity, change, socialist housing estates"
Highlights
Gentrification is a generalized phenomenon, gone global, with the global seen as originating in the West (Lees, Slater and Wyly, 2008, Lees et al, 2016)
The old definitions have become obsolete, while new definitions emerged, such as the one proposed by Clark (2005), who sees gentrification as a “process involving a change in the population of land‐users such that the new users are of a high socio‐economic status than the previous users, together with an associated change in the built environment through a reinvestment in fixed capital”
- with the exception of the buildings built after the year 2000, 35 apartment blocks were renovated recently, between 2000 and 2017, while in the case of the older houses, pre-1990, only 5 went through major rehabilitation, the remaining one having its last renovation before 1990; we would like to point out that the major rehabilitations or renovations imply mostly full or partial thermal insulation, new roof insulation or interior painting; smaller repairs do not count; none of the old buildings got their entire plumbing or electrical wiring changed, only minor repairs were conducted for such systems over the years;
Summary
Gentrification is a generalized phenomenon, gone global, with the global seen as originating in the West (Lees, Slater and Wyly, 2008, Lees et al, 2016). It is a phenomenon with countless descriptions due to its extensive geographic spread and to its substantial “life time”. One must consider that residential rehabilitation, since gentrification is a residential process at its core, is only one aspect of a more profound economic, social, and spatial restructuring This mutation, where wealthier displace poorer people and diversity is replaced by social and cultural homogeneity, undermines urbanity and the future of cities as emancipatory places
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