Sustainability, Housing Policies and Ppp: the Urban Regeneration of Budapest

The Urban Regeneration of Budapest. The paper will show the case of urban transformation underway in Budapest, the most cosmopolitan and open among the capitals of Central-Eastern Europe, which like other socialist city has undergone great changes, overwhelmed by the market economy and by the values of consumer society. The rational socialist planning for over 40 years had run the city according to a strict separation of centralized functions, in just ten years assumed the characteristics of global society, with a new economy, with major transformations of the organization, the structure and the urban space. The paper will illustrate: the different phases of development, the process of urban regeneration, with particular attention to the housing policies and the transformation expected for Budapest 2030. The conclusion will focus both on first observations on the main questions described and the challenges for the 2030.