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Understanding Post-socialist European Cities

Author : Melinda BENKŐ & Kornélia KISSFAZEKAS
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN 13 : 2140132904
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Post-socialist European Cities by : Melinda BENKŐ & Kornélia KISSFAZEKAS

Download or read book Understanding Post-socialist European Cities written by Melinda BENKŐ & Kornélia KISSFAZEKAS and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Progress? Lost path? Mistake? Rebuilding? Or destiny, that we need to accept? Should we or are we able at all to catch up with the West? Or should we walk our own path? The post-socialist urban development is struggling with its own identity. In this fascinating book today's young researchers - architects, architectural historians, and urban planners - raise questions, and try to process answers from the past of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in an effort to get a clearer vision of their future." Professor Emeritus Tamás Meggyesi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture

Understanding Post-socialist European Cities

Author : Editors: Melinda|Kissfazekas Benko (Kornelia)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782336883656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (836 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Post-socialist European Cities by : Editors: Melinda|Kissfazekas Benko (Kornelia)

Download or read book Understanding Post-socialist European Cities written by Editors: Melinda|Kissfazekas Benko (Kornelia) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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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Book Synopsis The Post-Socialist City by : Kiril Stanilov

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.

The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe

Author : Sasha Tsenkova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3790817279
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe by : Sasha Tsenkova

Download or read book The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe written by Sasha Tsenkova and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores urban dynamics in Europe fifteen years after the fall of communism. The ‘urban mosaic’ of the title expresses the complexity and diversity of the processes and spatial outcomes in post-socialist cities. Emerging urban phenomena are illustrated with case studies, focusing on historical themes, cultural issues and the socialist legacy. Among the cities analyzed are Kazan, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, Prague, Komarno, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia and Tirana.

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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Book Synopsis From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities by : Alexander C. Diener

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.

The Post Socialist City

Author : Marina Dmitrieva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783868590180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Post Socialist City by : Marina Dmitrieva

Download or read book The Post Socialist City written by Marina Dmitrieva and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban planning under socialism cannot be envisaged without its ideological purport. Socialist ideas were realised in buildings, street ensembles and squares, in films, literature and the visual arts. This title examines how Eastern European cities are dominated by large industrial complexes and panel buildings.

Cultural Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities

Author : Mariusz Czepczynski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317156390
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Cultural Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities by : Mariusz Czepczynski

Download or read book Cultural Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities written by Mariusz Czepczynski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural landscapes of Central European cities reflect over half a century of socialism and are marked by the Marxists' vision of a utopian landscape. Architecture, urban planning and the visual arts were considered to be powerful means of expressing the 'people's power'. However, since the velvet revolutions of 1989, this urban scenery has been radically transformed by new forces and trends, infused by the free market, democracy and liberalization. This has led to 'landscape cleansing' and 'recycling', as these former communist nations used new architectural, functional and social forms to transform their urbanscapes, their meanings and uses. Comparing case studies from different post-socialist cities, this book examines the culturally conditional variations between local powers and structures despite the similarities in the general processes and systems. It considers the contemporary cultural landscapes of these post-socialist cities as a dynamic fusion of the old communist forms and new free-market meanings, features and democratic practices, of global influences and local icons. The book assesses whether these urbanscapes clearly reflect the social, cultural and political conditions and aspirations of these transitional countries and so a critical analysis of them provides important insights.

Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe

Author : Waldemar Cudny
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000514668
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe by : Waldemar Cudny

Download or read book Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe written by Waldemar Cudny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents multidimensional socio-economic transformations taking place in the post-socialist cities located in selected countries of the Central European region. The analysis includes case studies from the Eastern part of Germany (Chemnitz, Leipzig), Poland (Łódź, Kielce, Katowice conurbation, and peripheral urban centres from Eastern Poland), Slovakia (Bratislava, Nitra), the Czech Republic (Olomouc, Brno), and from Hungary (Pécs). The analysed urban areas have undergone far-reaching political and socio-economic changes in the last 30 years. These changes began with the collapse of communism and the centrally planned economy system in the region of Central Europe. The beginning of this period, often referred to as post-socialist transformation, dates back to 1989. The consequence of the aforementioned political processes was the multifaceted socio-economic and demographic changes that significantly affected urban areas in Central Europe. This book presents an attempt to summarize the main long-term processes of changes taking place in these urban areas and to identify contemporary and future trends in their socio-economic development. The book will be valuable to undergraduate and postgraduate students in human geography, urban studies, economy, and city marketing, especially with an interest in Central Europe.

The Post-Socialist City

Author : Kiril Stanilov
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781402060526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis The Post-Socialist City by : Kiril Stanilov

Download or read book The Post-Socialist City written by Kiril Stanilov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 0 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.

Spatial Conflicts and Divisions in Post-socialist Cities

Author : Valentin Mihaylov
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030617653
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Spatial Conflicts and Divisions in Post-socialist Cities by : Valentin Mihaylov

Download or read book Spatial Conflicts and Divisions in Post-socialist Cities written by Valentin Mihaylov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents cross-national insights into spatial fragmentation in post-socialist cities in Europe. Trying to rethink the heritage of the last 30 years of transformation and grasp current processes taking urban units of various categories as examples, the book exemplifies typical or unique causes of political, social and ethnic disintegration of cities in Central and Eastern Europe. Presenting spatial studies into different cases of conflict in a cross-national context, the authors apply concepts of contested and divided cities, urban geopolitics, cultural atavism, contested heritage, etc. The book is divided into four parts. The first part raises the issue of genesis, development and contemporary discrepancies of cities divided by political and state borders. The second part includes chapters which deal with the impact of ongoing geopolitical divisions, wars, and ideologies on the social and political tensions as well as their polarising effect on urban territory. The third part comprises reflections on controversial relations of ethnic and national culture with urban space. The fourth part deals with socio-economic transformation of post-socialist cities which went through transition of old patterns of spatial planning and attempts to establish more rational and justice spatial order.

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.

Cities After Socialism

Author : Gregory Andrusz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444399152
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Book Synopsis Cities After Socialism by : Gregory Andrusz

Download or read book Cities After Socialism written by Gregory Andrusz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities After Socialism is the first substantial and authoritative analysis of the role of cities in the transition to capitalism that is occurring in the former communist states of Easter Europe and the Soviet Union. It will be of equal value to urban specialists and to those who have a more general interest in the most dramatic socio-political event of the contemporary era - the collapse of state socialism. Written by an international group of leading experts in the field, Cities after socialism asks and answers some crucial questions about the nature of the emergent post-socialist urban system and the conflicts and inequalities which are being generated by the processes of change now occurring.

Post-socialist Cities and the Urban Common Good

Author : Maja Grabkowska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000786382
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Post-socialist Cities and the Urban Common Good by : Maja Grabkowska

Download or read book Post-socialist Cities and the Urban Common Good written by Maja Grabkowska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. The question of common good is fundamental to urban living; however, understanding of the term varies depending on local contexts and conditions, particularly complex in countries with experience of communism. In cities east of the former Iron Curtain, the once ideologically imposed principle of common good became gradually devalued throughout the 20th century due to the lack of citizen agency, only to reappear as a response to the ills of neoliberal capitalism around the 2010s. The book reveals how the idea of urban common good has been reconstructed and practiced in European cities after socialism. It documents the paradigm shift from city as a communal infrastructure to city as a commodity, which lately has been challenged by the approach to city as a commons. These transformations have been traced and analysed within several urban themes: housing, public transport, green infrastructure, public space, urban regeneration, and spatial justice. A special focus is on the changes in the public discourse in Poland and the perspectives of key urban stakeholders in three case-study cities of Gdańsk, Kraków, and Łódź. The findings point to the need for drawing from best practices of the socialist legacy, with its celebration of the common. At the same time, they call for learning from the mistakes of the recent past, in which the opportunity for citizen empowerment has been unseized. The book is intended for researchers, academics, and postgraduates, as well as practitioners and anyone interested in rediscovering the inherent potential of urban commonality. It will appeal to those working in human geography, spatial planning, and other areas of urban studies.

Shared Cities Atlas

Author : Peter Mortenbock
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789462085213
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Shared Cities Atlas written by Peter Mortenbock and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shared Cities Atlas applies the new, global 'sharing paradigm' in architecture and public sphere to a site-specific situation in seven cities in Central Europe. Mapping current practices of sharing and new fields of action in case studies, it contextualizes the phenomenon in research papers, data, and photography. The ideas of a 'right to the city', of common resources, or 'the urban commons' all of which are in vogue in contemporary architectural discourse illustrate the paradigm shift towards a sharing perspective. In 'sharing cities' the emphasis lies in the right to remake the cities as a form of urban social contract with a specific creative or critical agenda. The Atlas presents creative forms of sharing driven by idealistic positions and collective actions - new approaches to sharing of spaces and architecture, experience and knowledge, data, or collective histories.

Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms

Author : Lisa B.W. Drummond
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442632852
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms by : Lisa B.W. Drummond

Download or read book Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms written by Lisa B.W. Drummond and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socialist cities have special qualities which endure in particular, subtle, and often under-theorized ways. This book engages with socialism on a global scale, as well as the variety of socialist urbanisms and post-socialist urbanisms, and the range of ways in which globalization intersects with changes in socialist and post-socialist cities. Offering a unique international comparative focus, the book’s fourteen case studies from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa are grouped under three main themes: housing experiences and life trajectories, planning and architecture, and governance and social order. Featuring contributors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and research foci, Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms brings together a collection of essays on cities that are often overlooked in mainstream urban studies.

Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe

Author : F. E. Ian Hamilton
Publisher : United Nations University Press
ISBN 13 : 9280811053
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe by : F. E. Ian Hamilton

Download or read book Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe written by F. E. Ian Hamilton and published by United Nations University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This volume is one in a series initiated by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies on the inter-relationship between globalisation and urban transformation. It identifies and describes the inter- and intra-urban transformations of Central and Eastern European cities and considers their pre-1945 historic legacies, the socialist period, and their contemporary transition towards market oriented and democratic systems. The dramatic changes since 1989 including the collapse of Communist ideology, the break-up of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the end of the Cold War and the impact of globalisation and European integration, have reconfigured this region and affected their re-integration into European and global networks. This book first examines the similarities and differences between significant Central and Eastern European cities, comparing the differing patterns of historical context and socialist legacies before 1990, and the impacts of internal and external forces on re-shaping these cities and their paths of transformation since 1990. It also examines the role of contemporary planning within the overall development of Central and Eastern European cities. The conclusion demonstrates the similarities and differences between Central and Eastern European cities and their re-integration into global networks.

Identity in Post-Socialist Public Space

Author : Bohdan Cherkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781003201427
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Identity in Post-Socialist Public Space written by Bohdan Cherkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 248 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 theorizes 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. It 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"--