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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLD AND NEW LARGE HOUSING ESTATES IN CROATIA: OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE LEVEL

The study compares the quality of life and housing between socialist (old) and post-socialist (new) large housing estates (LHE) in Croatia, based on objective and subjective indicators. The research, conducted in the spring of 2002 in four major cities, took place within Croatian context of so- called housing privatization, characterised by large share of private homeowners (around 90%), dependence on buying rather than renting apartments, and the country’s housing policy burdened by many socio- demographic problems. Old LHE are often derelict and unattractive, because buildings have not been renovated for a few decades. However, on the level of estates they are often better equipped than new ones, with more public and green spaces. Due to a large density of building during the transition period, new housing estates experience a reduction in public services, green areas and equipment, and therefore a neglect of residents’ needs. In newer housing estates the lack of public and green spaces results from building in the urbanistic context of post- socialism and pronounced free-market economy, whose main goal is profit. Differences in residential satisfaction between two types of housing estates shall be observed in objective and subjective housing indicators at the level of the flat, multi-family building, and housing estate. These differences should be seen primarily in the levels of neighbourhood equipment with basic utilities used daily by the residents (school, kindergarden, sports and cultural services etc.) and in basic housing indicators, such as flat size, room numbers and quality of construction. Subjective indicators of general satisfaction with the flat, multi-family building and housing estate shall additionally explain if there is a difference between satisfaction with the old and new housing estates at the level of Croatian large cities.

quality of life and housing, old (socialist) and new (post-socialist) large housing estates, residental satisfaction, subjective and objective housing indicators, neighbourhood equipment, deficiencies in housing estates

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