Post Socialist Urban Infrastructures Open Access

Download Post Socialist Urban Infrastructures Open Access full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Post Socialist Urban Infrastructures Open Access ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

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)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.

Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe

Author : Eszter Krasznai Kovacs
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800641354
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe by : Eszter Krasznai Kovacs

Download or read book Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe written by Eszter Krasznai Kovacs and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental resources are interlinked with systems of governance and power, from local to EU levels. Key challenges in the eastern European region today include increasingly authoritarian forms of government that threaten the operations and very existence of civil society groups; the importation of locally-contested conservation and environmental programmes that were designed elsewhere; and a resurgence in cultural nationalism that prescribes and normalises exclusionary nation-building myths. This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe. Engaging with the critical tools of political ecology, its contributors provide a hitherto overlooked perspective on the current fate and reception of ‘environmentalism’ in the region. It asks how emergent forms of environmentalism have been received, how these movements and perspectives have redefined landscapes, and what the subtler effects of new regulatory regimes on communities and environment-dependent livelihoods have been. Arranged in three sections, with case studies from Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Serbia, this collection develops anthropological views on the processes and consequences of the politicisation of the environment. It is valuable reading for human geographers, social and cultural historians, political ecologists, social movement and government scholars, political scientists, and specialists on Europe and European Union politics.

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)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.

From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities

Author : Alexander C. Diener
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317585887
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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 208 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.

Remaking Berlin

Author : Timothy Moss
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262360896
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Remaking Berlin by : Timothy Moss

Download or read book Remaking Berlin written by Timothy Moss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Berlin's turbulent history through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. In Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss takes a novel perspective on Berlin's turbulent twentieth-century history, examining it through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. He shows that, through a century of changing regimes, geopolitical interventions, and socioeconomic volatility, Berlin's networked urban infrastructures have acted as medium and manifestation of municipal, national, and international politics and policies. Moss traces the coevolution of Berlin and its infrastructure systems from the creation of Greater Berlin in 1920 to remunicipalization of services in 2020, encompassing democratic, fascist, and socialist regimes.

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)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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

Mapping Vilnius. Transitions of Post-socialist Urban Spaces

Author :
Publisher : VDA leidykla
ISBN 13 : 6094472160
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (944 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mapping Vilnius. Transitions of Post-socialist Urban Spaces by :

Download or read book Mapping Vilnius. Transitions of Post-socialist Urban Spaces written by and published by VDA leidykla. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping Vilnius is the first book in a series promoting Critical Urbanism as a way of analyzing the changing relationships between citizens, the state and the international context in shaping urban spaces in Central- and Eastern Europe. In this participatory research into two districts of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, mapping is used as a process-oriented technique to visualize these relationships in transition. It book was edited by the Laboratory of Critical Urbanism at the European Humanities University in Vilnius. Among the authors are Felix Ackermann, Vaiva Andriušytė, Philip Boos, Benjamin Cope, Dalia Čiupalaitė, Inga Freimane, Elisa Gerbsch, Tomas Grunskis, Max Hellriegel, Alina Jablonskaya, Justas Juzėnas, Anu Kägu, Andrei Karpeka, Yagmur Koreli, Miodrag Kuč, Siarhei Liubimau, Miglė Paužaitė, Indre Ruseckaitė, Tomáš Samec, Aliaksandra Smirnova, Kamilė Užpalytė, Gerda Vaitkevičiūtė, Kotryna Valiukevičiūtė, Clemens Weise, Lennart Wiesiolek

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)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.

Housing Policy Reforms in Post-Socialist Europe

Author : Sasha Tsenkova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3790821152
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Housing Policy Reforms in Post-Socialist Europe by : Sasha Tsenkova

Download or read book Housing Policy Reforms in Post-Socialist Europe written by Sasha Tsenkova and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores both theoretically and empirically the impacts of housing reforms on housing provision in the context of the transition from a centrally-planned to a market-based economy. Fifteen years after the overthrow of state socialism housing policy has lost its privileged status of a political priority as most politically emb- ded systems had favoured market-based solutions to housing problems. This dep- ture from state controlled housing policies with the aim of providing a dwelling for every family is significant, particularly in some post-socialist countries where no new housing policy has emerged. The transition process, embedded in the paradigm shift from central planning to markets, has triggered off turbulence and adjustments with tangible outcomes in post-socialist housing systems. What has changed and what new housing systems have emerged during this dramatic ‘transition to markets and democracy’? Are these systems more efficient and equitable? These questions are the main focus of the book with an emphasis on diversity and change in housing reforms. The book supports the hypothesis that notions of convergence are not really appropriate to the conceptualisation of post-socialist housing systems. It argues that different housing policy choices are going to map out increasingly divergent s- nario for future development.

Whose Green City?

Author : Bianka Plüschke-Altof
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031046366
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Whose Green City? by : Bianka Plüschke-Altof

Download or read book Whose Green City? written by Bianka Plüschke-Altof and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of an accelerating global urbanization and related ecological, climatic or social challenges to urban sustainability, this book focuses on the access to “safe, inclusive and accessible green and public space” as outlined in United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal No. 11. Looking through the lens of environmental justice and contested urban spaces, it raises the question who ultimately benefits from a green city development, and – even more importantly – who does not. While green space benefits are well-documented, green space provision is faced by multiple challenges in an era of urban neoliberalism. With their interdisciplinary and multi-method approach, the chapters in this book carefully study the different dimensions of green space access with particular focus on vulnerable groups, critically evaluate cases of procedural injustice and, in the case of Northern Europe that is often seen as forerunner of urban sustainability, provide in-depth studies on the contexts of injustices in urban greening. Chapters 1, 5, and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities

Author : Olivier Coutard
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800889151
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities by : Olivier Coutard

Download or read book Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities written by Olivier Coutard and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing towards a thriving research area, this comprehensive Handbook presents a broad discussion of infrastructure as social phenomena. It compiles diverse perspectives to delineate the current ‘infrastructural turn’ and assess policy and research challenges relating to contemporary forms of infrastructural development.

Postsocialist Shrinking Cities

Author : Chung-Tong Wu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000545563
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Postsocialist Shrinking Cities by : Chung-Tong Wu

Download or read book Postsocialist Shrinking Cities written by Chung-Tong Wu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comparative analysis of shrinking cities in a broad range of postsocialist countries within the so-called Global East, a liminal space between North and South. While shrinking cities have received increased scholarly attention in the past decades, theoretical, and empirical research has remained predominantly centered on the Global North. This volume brings to the fore a range of new perspectives on urban shrinkage, identifying commonalities, differences, and policy experiences across a very diverse and vivid region with its various legacies and contemporary controversial developments. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, insider views assist in decolonizing urban theory. Specifically, the book includes chapters on shrinking cities in China, Russia, and postsocialist Europe, presenting comparative discussions within countries and crossnational cases on theoretical and policy implications. The book will be of interest to students and scholars researching urban studies, urban geography, urban planning, urban politics and policy, urban sociology, and urban development.

Residential Change and Demographic Challenge

Author : Annett Steinführer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317065379
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Residential Change and Demographic Challenge by : Annett Steinführer

Download or read book Residential Change and Demographic Challenge written by Annett Steinführer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond the assumption that East Central European cities are still 'in transition' this book draws on the postsocialism paradigm to ask new questions about the impact of demographic change on residential developments in this region. Focussing on four second-order cities in this region, it examines Gdansk and Lódz in Poland and Brno and Ostrava in the Czech Republic as examples and deals with the nexus between urban development and demographic change for the context of East Central European cities. It provides a framework for linking urban and demographic research. It discusses how residential areas and urban developments cope with changes in population development, household types and different forms of in- and out-migration and goes on to explore parallels and differences in comparison with broader European patterns. This book will be useful to academics of urban planning and development especially in transition areas, Central and Eastern European studies, demographics and population studies, and sociology/social exclusion.

The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure

Author : Cox, Peter
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447345177
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure by : Cox, Peter

Download or read book The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure written by Cox, Peter and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume casts a critical gaze on current practices and on the wider relationship of bicycling to other forms of urban mobility, especially within the context of sustainable and livable cities. The book's international contributors provide an interdisciplinary critical analysis of policy and practice.

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)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.

Cities After Socialism

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

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.

Exploring Varieties of (post)Soviet Urbanization: Reconciling the General and Particular in Post-socialist Urban Studies

Author : Irina Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Exploring Varieties of (post)Soviet Urbanization: Reconciling the General and Particular in Post-socialist Urban Studies by : Irina Frost

Download or read book Exploring Varieties of (post)Soviet Urbanization: Reconciling the General and Particular in Post-socialist Urban Studies written by Irina Frost and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Urban studies that developed in the post-socialist context seek to reappraise the very notion of the post-socialist city and to reconceptualise their urban practices as a result of the changed regime and economic mode of production. While acknowledging the necessity to develop urban theory in more coherent but at the same time multipolar and comparative directions, the cities with socialist past as a potential source for the theorization of urbanity are poorly considered nonetheless. The paper argues for more nuanced and more detailed analysis of (post) socialist modes and forms of urbanization, looking at post-socialist urban studies as a multidimensional field of research. This can be handled, firstly, through careful consideration of the historical context and, secondly, by conducting a comparative analysis of post-socialist cities. Set against this background the paper aims to problematize the urbanization experience undertaken during the Soviet period as the long-lasting large