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Description of the research topic:
The research focuses on the relationship between the post-socialist housing estate actual real estate local values and the sustainability and liveability international global indicators (mainly the healthy city components) used for new housing developments. The hypothesis is that the inherited prefabricated housing estates could have good evaluation on sustainable neighborhood level, meanwhile the city and the building level criteria are responsible for potentials and problems as well. The critical understanding of the physical environment of prefab mass housing neighborhoods aims at their actual role within the city, their space usage and contemporary physical interventions, the research establishes a comparative analysis.
The case studies are from two different post-socialist cities: Budapest, the Hungarian capital city and an other post-socialist city. In every city two prefab mass housing neighborhoods - built in the 60’s or 70’s and comparable in size, but having really different position on the actual real estate market - will be chosen. The research process starts by the creation of a comparative research methodology based on open data about Budapest and international literature review, then it continues by new data collection applying interviews and short term field works. The result in relation to the case studies is their comparative critical evaluation. Nevertheless, this applied research could be useful for further proposal for planning, design and policy of prefab housing estates of post-socialist cities.
The supervisor as researcher, expert or university teacher participates in various international cooperation about mass housing, in consequences this doctoral research, the doctoral student could be involved into relevant transnational network. For example:
COST TU 18137 (2019-2023): European Middle Class Mass Housing- https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18137/#tabs|Name:overview
Docomomo ISC Urbanism / Landscape (2018 onwards)- https://www.docomomo.com/specialist_committees
DOCONF (2015 onwards): doctoral conference series with specialized Mass Housing Neighborhood session- http://www.urb.bme.hu/doconf2019/
Significant bibliography:
- Hess, D. B., Tammaru, T. & van Ham, M. (Eds.) (2018). Housing Estates in Europe, The Urban Book Series. Singapore: Spingler Nature.
- Kohout, M., Tichy, D., Tittl, F., Kubánkova, J. & S. Doleželavá (Eds.) (2016). Housing Estates, What’s Next? Prague: Faculty of Architecture, CTU in Prague.
- Molnár, Virág (2013). Building the state: Architecture, politics, and state formation in postwar Central Europe, New York: Routledge.
- Urban, F. (2012). Tower and Slab – histories of global mass housing. London: Routledge.
- Kovács, Z. & Herfert, G. (2012). Development pathways of large housing estates in post-socialist cities: An international comparison, Housing Studies, 27(3), 324-342.
- Bélaval, Ph. (Ed.) (2011). Les grands ensembles – une architecture du XXe siecle. Paris : Carré.
- Moravčiková, H., Topolčanska, M., Szalay, P., Dulla, M., Ščepánova, S., Toscherová, S. & Haberlandová, K. (2011). Bratislava Atlas of Mass Housing. Bratislava: Slovart.
- Temelová, J., Novák, J., Ouredníček, M. & Puldová, P. (2011). Housing estates in the Czech Republic after socialism: Various trajectories and inner differentiation, Urban Studies, 48(9).
- Tosics, I. (2004). European urban development: Sustainability and the role of housing. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 19(1), 67-90.
Significant periodicals:
- Építés- Építészettudomány / Sci Q2, Scopus
- Periodica Polytechnica Architecture
- Journal of Hungarian Studies / Scopus, Sci Q4 - Architektúra & Urbanizmus / Sci Q4, Scopus, WoS - Urban Studies / Sci Q1, Scopus
- Housing Studies / Sci Q1, Scopus - Open House International / Sci Q3, Scopus, WoS
- Journal of Place Management and Development / Sci Q2, Scopus
The future of large prefabricated housing estates is one of the key problems of sustainable urban development in post-Socialist countries which lie between the former East Germany and the Russian Far East, there are more than 53 million similar panel flats, inhabited by approximately 170 million people. In Hungary one fifth, in Budapest one third, in some big Hungarian cities (for example in Miskolc or Szekesfehervar) more than the half of the population live there. The challenge of mass housing is crucial for the future of cities in general (Bélaval 2011; Urban 2012, Hess et al. 2018), nevertheless based on the dimension of inherited mass housing neighborhoods in post-Socialist cities, this urban and architectural research topic comes to the front (Moravčiková et al, 2011; Kohout et al. 2016).
In the contemporary urban development process, the sustainability and liveability related to assessment systems (Sharifi & Murayama 2014, Orova & Reith 2013), and focuses on the planning and design of a new housing neighborhood, not on the renewal of an existing mass housing estate. However, the majority of these criteria were used at the time of their construction (as compact development, walkable streets, car-free open spaces,
reduced parking footprint, public transport, access to public spaces and to active spaces, neighborhood schools, etc.), but their situation changed after 1990. In addition, some other important contemporary factors were not presents before (as connectivity, diversity of uses, community outreach and involvement, local food production, etc.).
The research focuses on the relationship between the post-socialist housing estate actual real estate local values and the sustainability and liveability international global indicators (mainly the healthy city components) used for new housing developments. The hypothesis is that the inherited prefabricated housing estates could have good evaluation on neighborhood level, meanwhile the city and the building level criteria are responsible for potentials and problems as well (Benkő 2016). The critical understanding of the physical environment of prefab mass housing neighborhoods aims at their space usage and contemporary physical interventions, the research establishes a comparative analysis.
The case studies are from two different (with 500.000 – 2.000.000 inhabitants) post-socialist cities (Sykura 2009; Hirt 2013): Budapest, the city of the BME Csonka Pal Doctoral School, the Hungarian capital city; and an other post-socialist city (for example from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, German Democratic Republic, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, etc.).
In every city two prefab mass housing neighborhoods - built in the 60’s or 70’s and comparable in size, but having really different position on the real estate market - will be chosen. The research process starts by the creation of a comparative research methodology based on open data and international literature review (Kovács & Herfert 2012), then it continues by new data collection applying interviews and short term field works. The result in relation to the case studies is their comparative critical evaluation. Nevertheless, this applied research could be useful for further proposal for planning, design and policy of prefab housing estates of post-socialist cities.
The theoretical background is based on the supervisor’s publications and their bibliography (Benkő 2016; Benkő 2018; Benkő, Kissfazekas 2019), on the future activity of the COST CA18137 (probably the doctoral student could join to some events) and on the latest research and policy documents about the planning, design and management of healthy city (WHO 2016; Pineo et al. 2018).
In addition, the BME Department of Urban Planning and Design has a research article and urban project collection about prefab mass housing:
http://www.urb.bme.hu/uhlab/prefabmh/
The supervisor as researcher, expert or university teacher participates in various international cooperation about mass housing, in consequences this doctoral research, the doctoral student could be involved into relevant transnational network. For example:
COST TU 18137 (2019-2023): European Middle Class Mass Housing- https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18137/#tabs|Name:overview
Docomomo ISC Urbanism / Landscape (2018 onwards)- https://www.docomomo.com/specialist_committees
DOCONF (2015 onwards): doctoral conference series with specialized Mass Housing Neighborhood session- http://www.urb.bme.hu/doconf2019/
Bibliography:
Bélaval, Ph. (Ed.) (2011). Les grands ensembles – une architecture du XXe siecle. Paris : Carré.
Benkő, M. & Kissfazekas, K. (2019). Amoeba Cities:Towards Understanding Changes in the Post-Socialist European Physical Environment In. Benkő, M. & Kissfazekas, K. (Eds.): Understanding Post-Socialist European Cities (pp. 6-25). Budapest: L’Harmattan
Benkő, M. (2018). The Effects of Security-based Contemporary Urban Development on European Modern Mass Housing Landscape. Metamorphosis: The Continuity of Change. 15th International DOCOMOMO Conference, 28-31.08.2018 (pp. 181-185), Ljubljana. (ISBN 978-989-99645-3-2)
https://issuu.com/docomomo_si/docs/1_pdfsam_docomomo_layout_ebook
Benkő, M. (2016). Budapest’s Large Prefab Housing Estates: Urban Values of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Journal of Hungarian Studies, 29(1-2), (pp. 21-36).
Hess, D. B., Tammaru, T. & van Ham, M. (Eds.) (2018). Housing Estates in Europe, The Urban Book Series. Singapore: Spingler Nature.
Hirt, S. (2013): ”Whatever happened to the (post)socialist city?” Cities, 32, (pp. 29-38).
Kovács, Z. & Herfert, G. (2012). Development pathways of large housing estates in post-socialist cities: An international comparison, Housing Studies, 27(3), (pp. 324-342).
Kohout, M., Tichy, D., Tittl, F., Kubánkova, J. & S. Doleželavá (Eds.): Housing Estates, What’s Next? Prague: Faculty of Architecture, CTU in Prague.
LEED-ND (2009). Neighborhood Pattern & Development. http://www.usgbc.org/articles/getting-know-leed-neighborhood-development
Moravčiková, H., Topolčanska, M., Szalay, P., Dulla, M., Ščepánova, S., Toscherová, S. & Haberlandová, K. (2011). Bratislava Atlas of Mass Housing. Bratislava: Slovart.
Orova, M. & Reith, A. (2013). Comparison and evaluation of neighbourhood sustainability assessment systems. Munich: PLEA 2013: Sustainable Architecture for a Renewable Future. http://mediatum.ub.tum.de/doc/1169262/1169262.pdf
Pineo, H., Zimmermann, N., Cosgrave, E., Aldridge, R. W., Acuto, M. & Rutter, H. (2018). Promoting a healthy cities agenda through indicators: development of a global urban environment and health index, Cities & Health, 2(1), (pp. 27-45). DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2018.1429180
Sharifi, A. & Murayama, A. (2014). Neighborhood sustainability assessment in action: Cross-evaluation of three assessment systems and their cases from the US, the UK, and Japan. Building and Environment, 72, (pp. 243-258).
Sykora, L. (2009): Post-Socialist Cities. In: Kitchen, Rob, Thrift Nigel. (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 8, (pp. 387-395). Oxford:Elsevier.
Urban, F. (2012). Tower and Slab – histories of global mass housing. London: Routledge.
WHO (2016). Shanghai Declaration on promoting health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. https://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/9gchp/shanghai-declaration.pdf?ua=1
Number of students who can be accepted: 1
Deadline for application: 2021-08-31 |
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