Urban Geographies of Hesitant Transition: Tracing Socioeconomic Segregation in Post‐<scp>C</scp>eauşescu<scp>B</scp>ucharest

Abstract

Abstract Scholars have raised concerns about the social costs of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in Central and E astern E urope, and geographers are particularly interested in the spatial expressions and implications of these costs, including apparently increasing residential segregation. Applying a range of segregation measures to 1992 and 2002 census data, this contribution studies socio‐occupational residential segregation in Bucharest. The conclusion is that Bucharest was relatively socio‐spatially mixed at both times; in fact, a modest, yet fully legible, decreasing overall trend is observable. This is at odds with many popular assumptions of the past 20 years.