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Property relations and the politics of the suburban living place in the post-communist city : transition stories from Tirana, Albania

Mele, Marcela; Jonas, Andrew E.G.

Authors

Marcela Mele



Contributors

Lisa B.W. Drummond
Editor

Douglas Young
Editor

Abstract

One well-known feature of capitalist forms of urban development in North America and Western Europe is the emergence of a politics of the suburban living place, the spatial appearance of which seems to be separate from class and political tensions arising in urban society at large (Cox 2002). Recognised features of such a politics include efforts by homeowners to secure use values in the living place and thereby enhance exchange values (Logan and Molotch 1987), exclusionary political practices originating in the neighbourhood or suburb (Cox and Johnston 1982), and demands for local improvements in education and other public services; demands which might eventually lead to the creation of separate local jurisdictions in the suburbs (Cox and Jonas 1993). It might be expected that suburban areas in post-socialist states undergoing a transition to capitalist property relations likewise experience all sorts of tensions around the living place, which in turn give rise to claims for territorially separate structures of suburban government or governance.

Citation

Mele, M., & Jonas, A. E. (2020). Property relations and the politics of the suburban living place in the post-communist city : transition stories from Tirana, Albania. In L. B. Drummond, & D. Young (Eds.), Socialist and post-socialist urbanisms : critical reflections from a global perspective (227-245). Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Publication Date 2020-03
Deposit Date Nov 25, 2016
Journal Socialist and post socialist urbanisms
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Pages 227-245
Book Title Socialist and post-socialist urbanisms : critical reflections from a global perspective
Chapter Number 11
ISBN 9781442632837; 9781442632530
Keywords Property relations; Post-communist cities
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/445764