Post-Utopian Spaces (eBook, PDF)

Transforming and Re-Evaluating Urban Icons of Socialist Modernism
Redaktion: Mihaylov, Valentin; Ilchenko, Mikhail

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Produktbeschreibung

Featuring up-to-date and insightful analyses and comparative case studies from a plethora of countries, this timely book explores 'ideal' socialist cities and their transformation under new socio-economic and political conditions after the fall of communism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000645637
• Artikelnr.: 64193357

Autorenporträt

Valentin Mihaylov works in the Institute of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Organisation at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His scholarly interests are focused on national and territorial identities, urban studies, political geography, and geopolitics, with particular attention to the Balkans and East-Central Europe. He authored scientific publications in Bulgarian, English, Polish, Russian, and Serbian, including six books. Dr. Mihaylov recently published the collective volume Spatial Conflicts and Divisions in Post-Socialist Cities as an editor. Mikhail Ilchenko works as a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig. His studies focus on various aspects of urban transformations in Eastern Europe and social history of architecture, with particular interest in changing perceptions and public attitudes towards the modernist architectural heritage. His articles on post-socialist transformations and modernist urban heritage are published in various journals and edited volumes in English, Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish languages.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction: Socialist Urban Utopias and their Continuing
Transformations. 2.Rises and Falls of New Socialist Cities. 3.Uralmash:
Re-Imagining Utopia, Re-Constructing Urban Space. 4.Zaporizhzhia: The
Socialist City as a Cultural Model. 5.Tychy: From a Dormitory Town to a
Large Industrial Centre. 6.Eisenhüttenstadt: Urban Heritage in
Transformation. 7.Ostrava-Poruba: A 'Pure' Socialist City in Change and
Permanence. 8.Dunaújváros: Transforming and Re-Branding the Largest New
Town of Hungary's State-Socialist Era. 9.New Belgrade: From a Socialist
Ideal to a Fragmented Space of Fashionable Architecture. 10.Dimitrovgrad: a
Bulgarian Construction of the 20th Century. 11.Velenje: A Local Community's
Quest for Its Town Heritage and Identity. 12.Conclusion: Post-Utopian
Spaces in Search of Alternative Urban Policies.