Housing Inequality in Sofia, Bulgaria

纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校这篇博士论文改进项目考察了后社会主义城市的空间隔离。这项研究将在保加利亚索非亚进行，它提供了在向市场经济过渡的当代进程中审查这一问题的机会，以及与之相关的日益加剧的社会分化。调查人员先前的研究表明，索非亚与其他前社会主义首都城市的相似之处在于，城市不平等的差距越来越大。PI假设，自以来发生的经济和政治变化，以及欧洲的区域进程，正在塑造一个社会两极分化加剧的城市环境。这项研究将有助于后社会主义转型城市的文献研究，并使我们能够更好地理解(1)人们在资本主义制度下是如何决定住房的，而不是共产主义制度；(2)在后社会主义制度下，居住和流动模式是如何与家庭结构、就业结构、教育、种族背景和收入相对应的。

SES-0004457John LoganElena VesselinovaSUNY AlbanyThis Doctoral Dissertation Improvement project examines spatial segregation in a post-socialist city. The study will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, which provides the opportunity to examine the issue within the contemporary process of transition towards a market economy and its related increasing social differentiation. The investigators' prior research shows that Sofia resembles other former socialist capital cities in that there is a widening gap in urban inequality. The PIs hypothesize that the economic and political changes that have occurred since 1989, together with the regional processes in Europe, are shaping an urban environment of sharper social polarization. This research will contribute to the literature on post-socialist cities in transition and allow us to better understand (1) how people make decisions about housing in a capitalist system as opposed to a communist one; and (2) how residential and mobility patterns correspond to household family structure, employment structure, education, ethnic background and income in a post-socialist system.