Geografie 2015, 120, 164-187

https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie2015120020164

New-build gentrification in the post-socialist city: Łódź and Leipzig two decades after socialism

Andrej Holm1, Szymon Marcińczak2, Agnieszka Ogrodowczyk2

1Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany
2University of Łódź, Poland

Received July 2014
Accepted April 2015

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