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Hirt, S., Stanilov, K. (2007). The perils of post-socialist transformation: Residential development in Sofia. In: Stanilov, K. (eds) The Post-Socialist City. The GeoJournal Library, vol 92. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6053-3_11
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