1270 | 815 | Housing Price Patterns in Suburban Areas of Two Post-socialist Cities: a Comparative Analysis | Oliver-Valentin Dinter; Lucian Roșu; Corneliu Iațu
The transition from planned to liberal economy led to the reconfiguration of the urban system of former socialist states as attractive cities have recorded flows of immigrants, leading to suburbanization. Little attention was provided to second tier cities, even though these confront the same phenomenon as capital cities. As large portions of land were returned to previous owners, built-up areas have increased and extended over the cities’ borders, creating chaotic and vulnerable suburbs that triggered conflicts due to the loose planning regulations. _x000D_
Price of households is an indicator often used to evaluate the advantages and downsides of areas. As housing prices are a sum of structural and locational attributes, this paper proposes to compute a comparative analysis of their patterns across the suburban space of Iași (Romania) and Lublin (Poland) to reveal spatial inequalities of two cities of similar population. As suburbanization was driven by different factors across the post-socialist states, this process takes several forms depending on the local and national context. Considering explanatory variables as distance to nearest commercial, transportation and education facilities or to city center, as well as the surface area, number of rooms, year of construction of residential buildings etc., an estimated price per square meter will be computed for each apartment using a Geographically Weighted Regression. The estimated price will be compared with the one observed on housing sales websites in order to determine the patterns of residuals for each study case study. A comparison will determine the importance of housing price factors for each suburban area to observe how they influence the patterns in these two cities. Comparisons between price differences in areas of similar population density or land use fragmentation will reveal the inequalities and similarities of post-socialist suburbanization which will help in policy development designed for problematic zones
Oliver-Valentin Dinter; Lucian Roșu; Corneliu Iațu
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași
ID Abstract: 815