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Socialist Summer-home Settlements in Post-socialist Suburbanisation

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  • Kadri Leetmaa
  • Isolde Brade
  • Kristi Anniste
  • Mari Nuga

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The construction of new housing has been the most visible of all the spatial changes to have affected the post-socialist suburban landscape. It is argued in this article that former summer-home settlements are a hidden component of contemporary residential suburbanisation in former socialist countries. The building of summer or weekend homes ( dacha settlements in the former Soviet Union) around major cities for urban residents was a specific feature of socialist metropolitan planning. After removing construction restrictions, the stock of vacant dachas started to support the supply side of the suburban housing market. While dachas were a reserve of affordable housing during the recession of the 1990s, they served as a stock of building plots during the construction boom of the mid 2000s. In the Tallinn Metropolitan Area, former second homes are even more important than new post-1991 residential areas in terms of giving access to detached houses to the metropolitan population.

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  • Kadri Leetmaa & Isolde Brade & Kristi Anniste & Mari Nuga, 2012. "Socialist Summer-home Settlements in Post-socialist Suburbanisation," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 49(1), pages 3-21, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:49:y:2012:i:1:p:3-21
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098010397399
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