Publication details
Dělnický dům a proměny sociálně vyloučené oblasti. Případová studie lokality Brno-Cejl
| Title in English | Workers' housing and the transformation of a socially excluded area. Case study of the Brno-Cejl district |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal of Urban Ethnology |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | Socially excluded locality; Upper and Lower Cejl; Brno; gentrification; urban renovation; Roma inhabitants |
| Description | The first textile factory in the former cadastral municipality Horní a Dolní Cejl (Upper and Lower Cejl, today Brno-North) was established in the 1750s. At the beginning of the 19 th century there were already seven large textile factories in the area. In the first half of the 19 th century, two– or multi-storey courtyard balcony apartment houses were built, providing accommodation to textile factory workers who came to Brno from the surrounding villages. Brno was called the Moravian Manchester at that time. The character of a manual workers’ suburb has been preserved in the Cejl locality until now. The locality has been described as socially excluded, with a high percentage of Roma inhabitants living in unsuitable and run-down flats. At the same time, the locality reflects a selective process of gentrification alongside globalization. Qualitative research of two selected three-storey courtyard balcony houses was conducted between 2007–2010 within the CONDENSE project supported by VolkswagenStiftung (Socio-Spatial Consequences of Demographic Change in Central Eastern European Cities. Potentials and Limits of an Exchange of Experiences from Western Europe and Eastern Germany). The research further focused on the gentrification process in the locality while exploring goals and strategies of the participants and their impact on the integration process or exclusion of the Roma inhabitants of the locality. |