Abstract
Post-communist societies are facing numerous challenges leading to complex structural changes. New models of socio-spatial polarization of the cities have emerged. In recent decades, Bulgaria has seen a clear trend of growing number of Roma people residing in cities. In the majority of cases, the Roma settle either in already existing Roma quarters, or the new settlers form completely new Roma quarters. The swift explanation of the Roma quarters in both horizontal (spatially) and vertical (height) aspect, makes it difficult to trace the changes. Considering that most buildings are illegal, they are not present on cadastral maps and urban spatial plans. The serious difficulties which Bulgaria has been encountering regarding the integration of its Roma population, together with the increased ghettoization of the Roma living in cities and the eventual threats of social cataclysms, determine the necessity of carrying out this study. Its main objective is to analyze the spatial development trends and the internal structure of the Roma quarters, based on the case study of the Roma-inhabited Harman Mahala quarter in the city of Plovdiv, applying remote sensing and field research methods.
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The study has been conducted within a project titled “Spatial segregation and its impact on the social integration of Roma population in “Harman Mahala, Plovdiv”, funded by the National Scientific Research Fund of the Republic of Bulgaria, Grant No. ДH15/7.
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Ilieva, N., Asenov, K., Kazakov, B., Lubenov, T. (2020). Dynamics of the Internal Structure and Habitation Conditions of the Ghettoized Urban Structure of Harman Mahala Quarter—Plovdiv, Bulgaria (Through Combined Application of Remote Sensing and Field Research Methods). In: Nedkov, S., et al. Smart Geography. Key Challenges in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28191-5_14
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