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The post socialist city : continuity and change in urban space and imagery

By: Contributor(s): Series: Jovis DiskursPublication details: Jovis Verlag Berlin, 2010Description: 269 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9783868590180
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.94 KLI
Contents:
Introduction: The Post-Socialist City 6 (10) Continuity and Change in Urban Space and Imagery Marina Dmitrieva Alfrun Kliems 1 THEORETICAL CONCEPTS Representations and Images of "Recent History" 16 (18) The Transition of Post-Socialist Landscape Icons Mariusz Czepczynski Towards Banalization? 34 (18) Trnas-Forming The Legacies of the Post-Socialist City Lydia Coudroy de Lille Milena Guest A Cumbersome Heritage 52 (16) Political Monuments and Buildings of the GDR in Reunted Germany Arnold Bartetzky 2 ARTISTIC REALIZATIONS Urban "Truths" 68 (18) Artistic Intervention in Post-Socialist Space Cynthia Imogen Hammond Screening the Post-Soviet Metropolis 86 (18) Representations of Urbanity in Contemporary Russian Cinema Eva Binder The Golden City and the Golden Shot 104 (16) Images From Prague After the Velvet Revolution Alfrun Kliems 3 DISCURSIVE RECONDINGS Post-Totalitarian and Post-Colonial Experiences 120 (20) The Palace of Culture and Science and Defilad Square in Warsaw Malgorzata Omilanowska Cultural Policy as the Politics of History 140 (16) Independence Square in Kiev Wilfried Jilge The Presence of the Recent Past 156 (14) Difficult Transformations of a "Paradigmatic Socialist City": Dunaujvaros Bela Kerekgyarto Projected Happiness 170 (26) Old Myths and New Ambitions in a Bucharest Neighborhood Carmen Popescu Bucharest As a Battleground, 1989-2009 196 (14) Augustin Ioan 4 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS Turbo Urbanism in Prishtina 210 (20) Kai Vockler Astana, Almaty, and Aktau 230 (18) Architectural Experiments in the Steppes of Kazakhstan Philipp Meuser Post-Socialist or Postmodernist? 248 (16) The Search For a New Urbanism in Armenla Tigran Harutyunian List of Authors 264 (4) Image Credits 268
Summary: It is impossible to view urban planning in Socialism apart from its ideological content. Socialist ideas were realised in buildings, the layout of streets and squares, in films, in literature, and fine art. This heritage - even after the collapse of the political system - has survived into the post-socialist city to date. At the end of the last century, however, representative socialist buildings lost their political significance or disappeared from the urban picture altogether. Other buildings from this period were given alternative functions in the course of new urban usage concepts.
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Introduction: The Post-Socialist City 6 (10)
Continuity and Change in Urban Space and Imagery
Marina Dmitrieva
Alfrun Kliems
1 THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Representations and Images of "Recent History"
16 (18)
The Transition of Post-Socialist Landscape Icons
Mariusz Czepczynski
Towards Banalization?
34 (18)
Trnas-Forming The Legacies of the Post-Socialist City
Lydia Coudroy de Lille
Milena Guest
A Cumbersome Heritage
52 (16)
Political Monuments and Buildings of the GDR in Reunted Germany
Arnold Bartetzky
2 ARTISTIC REALIZATIONS
Urban "Truths"
68 (18)
Artistic Intervention in Post-Socialist Space
Cynthia Imogen Hammond
Screening the Post-Soviet Metropolis
86 (18)
Representations of Urbanity in Contemporary Russian Cinema
Eva Binder
The Golden City and the Golden Shot
104 (16)
Images From Prague After the Velvet Revolution
Alfrun Kliems
3 DISCURSIVE RECONDINGS
Post-Totalitarian and Post-Colonial Experiences
120 (20)
The Palace of Culture and Science and Defilad Square in Warsaw
Malgorzata Omilanowska
Cultural Policy as the Politics of History
140 (16)
Independence Square in Kiev
Wilfried Jilge
The Presence of the Recent Past
156 (14)
Difficult Transformations of a "Paradigmatic Socialist City": Dunaujvaros
Bela Kerekgyarto
Projected Happiness
170 (26)
Old Myths and New Ambitions in a Bucharest Neighborhood
Carmen Popescu
Bucharest As a Battleground, 1989-2009
196 (14)
Augustin Ioan
4 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Turbo Urbanism in Prishtina
210 (20)
Kai Vockler
Astana, Almaty, and Aktau
230 (18)
Architectural Experiments in the Steppes of Kazakhstan
Philipp Meuser
Post-Socialist or Postmodernist?
248 (16)
The Search For a New Urbanism in Armenla
Tigran Harutyunian
List of Authors 264 (4)
Image Credits 268

It is impossible to view urban planning in Socialism apart from its ideological content. Socialist ideas were realised in buildings, the layout of streets and squares, in films, in literature, and fine art. This heritage - even after the collapse of the political system - has survived into the post-socialist city to date. At the end of the last century, however, representative socialist buildings lost their political significance or disappeared from the urban picture altogether. Other buildings from this period were given alternative functions in the course of new urban usage concepts.

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