Madalina Mezaros
madalinamez.bsky.social
Madalina Mezaros
@madalinamez.bsky.social
PhD Candidate (FNR-AFR) at LISER & University of Luxembourg | Researching housing - gentrification, displacement, fiscal policies - & social change in Luxembourg
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👏 Congrats to Dr. Madalina MEZAROS who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Property, Policy, & Place: #Housing #Inequality & #Gentrification Dynamics in #Luxembourg"

👩‍🎓 @madalinamez.bsky.social was awarded a #PhD degree in #Geography from @uni.lu

🙏 Kudos to supervisor @douccap.bsky.social & jury!
October 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Lovely day in Luxembourg then Dudelange then across border into France today with @douccap.bsky.social & @madalinamez.bsky.social learnt so much 😊
June 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Went to fireworks with @madalinamez.bsky.social in Luxembourg last night, they were amazing, thanks to @liser.lu for inviting me 😊
Fireworks, torchlight procession, and more: Revisit the highlights of Sunday night through our photo galleries
Here are the highlights of Sunday night's fireworks in pictures – and all the photos from the evening!
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June 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
proud 🌟 you can read our paper in Urban Studies here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
June 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Join us for this inspiring talk!
🏘️ Join us on June 24 for a deep dive into the creation and implementation of a groundbreaking Anti-Displacement Tool that uses data and policy to protect communities from the displacement new housing projects may cause.

🔗LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EVENT AND REGISTER HERE: www.liser.lu/events/RSSUD...
May 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Field trip day! 🌆 @constanceu.bsky.social and I took our 1st-year Econ students from @uni.lu to explore “Living & Working in the City” in Differdange, Luxembourg.

(Credits photo: Vincent Lescaut/ @lessentielde.bsky.social)
May 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Looking back on my one-week research stay in New York and Boston, I’m happy (and a bit amazed) to have ticked everything off my list:

🔴 Visit the DUMBO neighborhood in New York City - a place I’ve read so much about in the gentrification literature;
April 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Join us for a special lunch seminar featuring @madalinamez.bsky.social of @liser.lu on Luxembourg's housing crisis, multinational gentrification, and "domino displacement.”

When: April 10, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET
Where: Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215 [Open to Public]
March 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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February 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Our Urban Studies article is now open access! 🔓

We introduce ‘gentrification regimes’—using 50 years of property data to reveal how Luxembourg’s housing market shifted from ownership-driven to investor-led, with national fiscal policies fueling buy-to-let gentrification.

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February 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Honestly, this is my reaction to a lot of current events as well.
December 3, 2024 at 7:06 PM
The nightmare before Christmas, Romanian edition. #Romania #elections
Romania to hold presidential runoff as court certifies shock first-round result
Moscow-friendly ultranationalist Cǎlin Georgescu to face Elena Lasconi in vote that could upend Ukraine policy
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:49 PM
#Luxembourg starter pack. Of course, you can get by with just English (especially in research) or only one of these three languages... but where's the fun in that? #multilingualism
November 22, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Hello ̶w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ Bluesky! Sharing an article @douccap.bsky.social and I wrote a while ago. We put together two timelines: the evolution of three #housing policies and the evolution of the characteristics of apartment buyers over five decades in Dudelange, #Luxembourg. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Accelerating housing inequality: property investors and the changing structure of property ownership in Luxembourg
This paper tracks the arrival of investors in the housing market of Dudelange, Luxembourg. In so doing, it focuses on the socio-economic changes accompanying the transformation of homes into assets...
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November 14, 2024 at 1:04 PM