Geografie 2015, 120, 251-274

https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie2015120020251

Beyond gentrification: Diversified neighbourhood upgrading in the inner city of Budapest

Zoltán Kovács1,2, Reinhard Wiessner3, Romy Zischner3

1Department of Economic and Social Geography, University of Szeged, Hungary
2Institute of Geography, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
3Institute of Geography, University of Leipzig, Germany

Received July 2014
Accepted April 2015

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