Third-party funded project

Estates After Transition (EAT)

Research department: Politics and Planning

IRS Research Topic: Spatial Path Development and Institutional Change Forms and Implications of Spatial Governance

Project Leader within IRS: PD Dr. Matthias Bernt

Project Team: Dr. Madlen Pilz

Consortium: Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (Coordination) European University at St. Petersburg University of Tartu

Funding Organization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Duration: 07/2018 - 11/2021

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The research aims at studying recent challenges in the development of large housing estates in postsocialist cities. It is based on a comparative approach and includes six case studies in Estonia, Germany, and Russia. Resarch on the neighbourhoods Halle-Neustadt and Berlin-Marzahn will be conducted by the IRS. Thereby, the project focuses on actors, their interests and resources and observes the consequences of their constellations for the development of housing estates. The main scientific goal of the project will be to overcome the fragmented and single-case orientied research on large housing estates in central and eastern Europe. The challenges for the development of these estates will be analysed using an analytic governance concept, which embedds the conditions of individual neighbourhoods in a broader socio-economic context.
The project will result in a number of transferable recommnedations that can help facing the long-term development challenges of housing estates in CEE-countires and assist in improving the quality of life and the competitivness of these neighbourhoods.
In sum, the project has four goals:
1. analyzing major challenges in the social and economic deveopment of postsocialist housing estates,
2. analyzing local and regional govwernance constellations underlying these challenges,
3. advancing existing scientific concepts on the basis of new empirical material,
4. fostering intercultural learning and developing policy- recommendations:
The project is based on a collaboration of estonian, german and russian scientists. It will assist in advancing the developmentof a common European research area and result in "capacity building" for future cooperations.

Photo: © Harald Henkel

Publications

Pilz, M., & Pirrus, J. (2021). The Role of Art in Large Housing Estates (LHES). https://drive.google.com/file/d/10d2_OaPI82wGjirqaEC18DdksVLVALrs/view
Bernt, M. (2021). Die Segregationsmaschine: Entmischung in deutschen Großwohnsiedlungen und ihre Ursachen. Die Wohnungswirtschaft, 74(2), 8-11.
Korablyeva, E., Shirobokova, I., Pachenkov, O., & Bernt, M. (2023). Dwelling in Failure: Power and Uncertainty in a Socialist Large Housing Estate Regeneration Program in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 38(1), 85-99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-021-09892-3
Pilz, M., & Maltry, F. (2022). Stadtumbau, Miete und Nachbarschaft in ostdeutschen Großwohnsiedlungen: Gespräche mit Bewohnerinnen und Bewohnern aus Halle-Neustadt und Berlin Marzahn. Projekt „Estates after Transition“ (EraNet). (Working Paper; No. 3). Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. https://www.estatestransition.org/reports
Bernt, M., Leetma, K., & Pachenkov, O. (2021). Large Housing Estates in Post-Socialist Cities: Challenges and Perspectives: Project Summary and Recommendations. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hKK1IKuPNB5HWpY6zKD0D6fJ0MWWJXJK/view?usp=sharing
Leetma, K., & Bernt, M. (2023). Special Issue Intro: Housing Estates in the Era of Marketization – Governance Practices and Urban Planning. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 38(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-022-09976-8