Gentrification in central moscow ‐ a market process or a deliberate policy? money, power and people in housing regeneration in ostozhenka

摘要: The recent process of housing redevelopment in central Moscow is examined the light theory gentrification. study based on case Ostozhenka as an emblematic example a large–scale transformation residential neighbourhood into most expensive quarter Moscow. Using data collected through interviews, archive enquiries and field surveys, paper addresses preconditions, dynamics mechanisms this socio–political process. It argued that gentrification shares many features observed other large cities world but, predicted by theory, locally embedded. has been product complex interplay market pressure aiming to meet demands from Moscow's successful post–Soviet economy government's entrepreneurial pro–development strategy for city centre regeneration. government privileges forces: it empowers them vis-a-vis original population allows circumvent conservation institutions, while achieved profit shared between private public sides. Whereas physical improvement signifies departing Soviet legacies under–investments built environment, growing socio–spatial polarization undermines social achievements system denotes triumph neoliberal urban regime