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Informal Settlements and Public Policies in Bulgaria During the Post-Socialist Period

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Fast urbanization rates and the rocky political history of Southeast Europe during the early 1900s sent scores of people from impoverished rural areas and small towns to settle around large cities in areas lacking basic infrastructure and hygienic conditions. After the World War II, faced with massive population flux to large cities, some of the communist regimes also turned a blind eye toward informal settlements. Yet a true eruption of slums occurred in the region after the collapse of the state socialist system. The aim of this article is to discuss public policy and to sketch a portrait of informal housing occupied by the most disenfranchised group in Southeast Europe, the Roma, in a post-socialist Southeast European country: Bulgaria.

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  1. Varna Free University, Varna, Bulgaria

    Aleksandar D. Slaev

  2. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Sonia A. Hirt

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  1. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

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    Jérôme Chenal

  3. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

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Case Study: Fakulteta, Sofia, Bulgaria

Case Study: Fakulteta, Sofia, Bulgaria

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Slaev, A.D., Hirt, S.A. (2016). Informal Settlements and Public Policies in Bulgaria During the Post-Socialist Period. In: Bolay, JC., Chenal, J., Pedrazzini, Y. (eds) Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities. GeoJournal Library, vol 119. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31794-6_17

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