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The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia

Author : Isolde Brade
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134152841
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia written by Isolde Brade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since 1989, the societies of Russia and Eastern Europe have undergone a remarkable transformation from socialism to democracy and free market capitalism. Making an important contribution to the theoretical literature of urbanism and post-communist transition, this significant book considers the change in the spatial structure of post-Soviet urban spaces since the period of transition began. It argues that the era of transformation can be considered as largely complete, and that this has given way to a new stage of development as part of the global urban and economic system: post-transformation. The authors examine the modern trends in the urban development of western and post-socialist countries, and explore the theories of the transformation and post-transformation of urban space. Providing a wealth of detailed qualitative research on the Russian city of St. Petersburg, the study examines the changing structure of its retail trade and services sector. Overall, this book is an important step forward in the study of the spatial dynamics of urban transformation in the former communist world.

The Post-Socialist City

Author : Kiril Stanilov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140206053X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Post-Socialist City written by Kiril Stanilov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the spatial transformations in the most dynamically evolving urban areas of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. It links the restructuring of the built environment with the underlying processes and the forces of socio-economic reforms. The detailed accounts of the spatial transformations in a key moment of urban history in the region enhance our understanding of the linkages between society and space.

Money Sings

Author : Blair A. Ruble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521482424
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Money Sings written by Blair A. Ruble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the reorganization of Russian life during the initial post-Soviet era by examining the politics of property in Yaroslavl.

The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia

Author : Isolde Brade
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113415285X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Book Synopsis The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia by : Isolde Brade

Download or read book The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia written by Isolde Brade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 Post-industrial vs. post-socialist: Post-industrial trends and points for investigation in the post-socialist metropolis -- chapter 2 Changes in the functions of St Petersburg as a prerequisite for structural change in the city -- chapter 3 Transformation, tertiary sector and city space: Time'space approach -- chapter 4 Transformation and specific forms of spatial saturation -- chapter 5 The spatial transformation of vertical business structures -- chapter 6 Territorial complex building -- chapter 7 Post-transformation urban space: The results of spatial saturation and the spatial organization of new business forms -- chapter 8 Post-transformation vs. modernization: Conclusions.

Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (OPEN ACCESS)

Author : Tauri Tuvikene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351190334
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Book Synopsis Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (OPEN ACCESS) by : Tauri Tuvikene

Download or read book Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (OPEN ACCESS) written by Tauri Tuvikene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on often forgotten, but some of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of post-socialist transformation. As the skeletons of cities, infrastructures capture the ways in which urban environments are assembled and urban lives unfold. Focusing on post-socialist cities, marked by neoliberalisation, polarisation and hybridity, this book offers new and enriching perspectives on urban infrastructures by centering on the often marginalised aspects of urban research—transport, green spaces, and water and heating provision. Featuring cases from West and East alike, the book covers examples from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Russia, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Tajikistan, and India. It provides original insights into the infrastructural back end of post-socialist cities for scholars, planners and activists interested in urban geography, cultural and social anthropology, and urban studies.

Meeting Places of Transformation

Author : Thomas Born
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3898217396
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Meeting Places of Transformation written by Thomas Born and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to the urban spaces of everyday life when the Soviet Union collapsed? And how may this change be understood? Based on long-term qualitative fieldwork in post-Soviet Russia, this study draws upon time-geographic, social and semiotic theory to formulate a model of how urban space is formed. Mirrored through the case of Ligovo/Uritsk, a high-rise residential district situated on the outskirts of Sankt-Peterburg (St Petersburg), the changing relation between the lifeworlds of people and the system of governance is highlighted with regard to the transformation of Soviet and Russian society over the last decades. The empirical material presented here documents a number of processes within urban identity formation, spatial representations and local politics. The resulting findings add both empirically and theoretically to the knowledge of urban cultural geography in Russia—a field of research that until recently was closed to Western researchers, and seems currently to be closing again.The book will be of interest to researchers with an interest in social, semiotic and geographic theory as well as to students and researchers of cultural and urban studies, urban life and Russian affairs. The study could be also helpful to professionals working in fields related to post-Soviet urban identity, spatial representations and local politics.

Post-Soviet Social

Author : Stephen J. Collier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400840422
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Post-Soviet Social written by Stephen J. Collier and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken--casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In Post-Soviet Social, Stephen Collier examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. He turns attention from the noisy battles over stabilization and privatization during the 1990s to subsequent reforms that grapple with the mundane details of pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, and budgetary formulas that made up the Soviet social state. Drawing on Michel Foucault's lectures from the late 1970s, Post-Soviet Social uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a central form of political rationality in contemporary societies. The book's basic finding--that neoliberal reforms provide a justification for redistribution and social welfare, and may work to preserve the norms and forms of social modernity--lays the groundwork for a critical revision of conventional understandings of these topics.

Identity in Post-Socialist Public Space

Author : Bohdan Cherkes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100048503X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Identity in Post-Socialist Public Space written by Bohdan Cherkes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative analysis of the architecture of central public spaces of capital cities in Central and Eastern Europe during the period of their authoritarian and post-authoritarian development. It demonstrates that national identity transformations cause structural changes in urban public spaces, and theorises identity and national identity within urban planning in order to explain the influence of historical, cultural, mental, social as well as ideological and political conditions on the processes of shaping and perceiving the architecture of public space. The book addresses the process of shaping and restructuring historic centres of European capital cities of Kiev, Moscow, Berlin, and Warsaw, which developed under authoritarian regime conditions throughout the 20th century and were characterised by ideological determinism and the influence of state ideology and politics on the architecture of public spaces. The book will be useful for urban planners, architects, land management specialists, art historians, political scientists, and readers interested in the theory and history of cities, the fundamentals of urban planning and architecture, and the planning of cities and public spaces.

Changing Urban Landscapes

Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
ISBN 13 : 8867281216
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Changing Urban Landscapes written by AA. VV. and published by Viella Libreria Editrice. This book was released on 2013-09-02T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast territory from Asia to Eastern Europe that was part of or under the influence of the Soviet Union comprised cities, which have undergone profound changes in the last twenty years. The opening of borders combined with the affirmation of market dynamics, privatization and concentration of wealth, and the emergence of nationalist discourses have upset ways of life and value systems leaving deep marks on the urban landscape and organization of living space. These essays take an in-depth look at specific cases – Samarkand, Sarajevo, Berlin, Almaty, and others – to offer a complex picture of the transformations affecting the post-communist city.

Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (OPEN ACCESS)

Author : Tauri Tuvikene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351190334
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities

Author : Alexander C. Diener
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317585879
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities written by Alexander C. Diener and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of post-socialist cities has become a major field of study among critical theorists from across the social sciences and humanities. Originally constructed under the dictates of central planners and designed to serve the demands of command economies, post-socialist urban centers currently develop at the nexus of varied and often competing economic, cultural, and political forces. Among these, nationalist aspirations, previously simmering beneath the official rhetoric of communist fraternity and veneer of architectural conformity, have emerged as dominant factors shaping the urban landscape. This book explores this burgeoning field of research through detailed cases studies relating to the cultural politics of architecture, urban planning, and identity in the post-socialist cities of Eurasia. This book was published as a special issue of Nationalities Papers.

Soviet Urbanization

Author : Olga Medvedkov
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351214004
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Urbanization written by Olga Medvedkov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet Academy of Sciences and bringing with her much material otherwise unavailable in the West, the author analyses the structure of the Soviet urban network and its future development under the constraints of central planning. The author concludes that the danger to Soviet urbanization programme lies in the gap between central planning on the one hand and actual spatial change on the other. This book will appeal to students and academics working in the disciplines of geography, urban studies and planning.

25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries

Author : Jeroen Huisman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319529803
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book 25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries written by Jeroen Huisman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, systems that have responded to national and global developments while still bearing some traces of the past. The book is distinctive as it presents a comprehensive analysis of the reforms and transformations in the region in the last 25 years; and it focuses on institutional landscape through the evolution of the institutional types established and developed in Pre-Soviet, Soviet and Post-Soviet time. It also embraces all fifteen countries of the former USSR, and provides a comparative analysis of transformations of institutional landscape across Post-Soviet systems. It will be highly relevant for students and researchers in the fields of higher education and and sociology, particularly those with an interest in historical and comparative studies.

Inventing a Soviet Countryside

Author : James W. Heinzen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822970783
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Inventing a Soviet Countryside written by James W. Heinzen and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced, thorough examination of the political, social, and cultural aspects of the Bolsheviks’ efforts to modernize the Russian peasantry.

Globalization and Urban Centres in Africa

Author : Carole Rakodi
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9211319242
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Urban Centres in Africa written by Carole Rakodi and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2007 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

[UN]Precedented Pyongyang

Author : Dongwoo Yim
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638408394
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book [UN]Precedented Pyongyang written by Dongwoo Yim and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the notorious fact of it being one of the most veiled countries in modern history, North Korea recently has started to get engaged with the rest of the world, and now we can easily witness various socio-economic changes of the nation which was seen in the 1990s in other post-socialist countries. And as the capital of the nation, Pyongyang has already entered into fast transformation stage with numbers of developments both in public and private sectors since the new regime of Kim Jung Un. However, we sometimes overlook the fact that the city was built based on the goal to be an ideal socialist city. After the three years of Korean War in the 1950s, Pyongyang was completely demolished and had a unique chance to build a new city based on the socialist ideology. Although the current morphology may not be exactly same as the original master plan, many urban spaces and infrastructures remain as evidences of socialist urban planning. And interestingly enough, these are urban elements that have major conflict with the idea of market-oriented economy, and at the moment, the morphology of the city is already changing. Then, the question is, will Pyongyang become one of post-socialist cities, having them as precedents to the city, or will it have its own development path that is unprecedented?

Cities of the World

Author : Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538126354
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Cities of the World written by Stanley D. Brunn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkably, more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and the numbers grow daily as people abandon rural areas. This fully updated and revised seventh edition of the classic text offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the urban landscape, and, by extension, the world's politics, cultures, and economies. Providing a sweeping overview of world urban geography, noted experts explore the eleven major global regions. Each regional chapter considers urban history, economy, culture, and environment, as well as urban spatial models and problems and prospects. Each begins with two facing pages: a regional map that shows the major cities and a table of basic statistical information about cities and urbanization in each region and a list of ten salient points about that region’s urban experience. Chapters conclude with a list of references, including films and webpages, which can be used by the student and instructor for additional information about specific cities. This edition adds the important new themes of climate change and migration, while continuing to focus specifically on sustainability, water, technology, social and environmental justice, security and conflict, the history of urban settlement, urban planning trends, and daily life. Vignettes of key cities give the reader a vivid understanding of daily life and the "spirit of place." The opening chapter presents an overview of key terms and concepts and explores contemporary world urbanization, and a concluding chapter projects the world's urban future. Liberally illustrated in full color with a new selection of photographs, maps, and diagrams, the text also includes a rich array of textboxes to highlight key topics ranging from migration and immigration to LBGTQ activism, human security, and climate change. Clearly written and timely, Cities of the World will be invaluable for those teaching introductory or advanced classes on global cities, regional geography, the developing world, and urban studies.