From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities: Cultural Politics of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Identity in Eurasia

ISBN-13: 9780367077945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 196 str.

Alexander C. Diener; Joshua Hagen

Opis

Drawing from the latest theory pertaining to the field of urban landscape change, this book offers a series of detailed cases studies exploring the cultural politics of architecture, urban planning, and identity across the post-socialist cities of Eurasia.

This book was published as a special issue of Nationalities Papers.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: From socialist to post-socialist cities: narrating the nation through urban space  2. Urban space, political identity and the unwanted legacies of state socialism: Bucharest’s problematic Centru Civic in the post-socialist era  3. Millennial politics of architecture: myths and nationhood in Budapest  4. The Southern Square in the Baltic Pearl: Chinese ambition and “European” architecture in St. Petersburg, Russia  5. “Civilizing the city center”: symbolic spaces and narratives of the nation in Yerevan’s post-Soviet landscape  6. The production of a new Eurasian capital on the Kazakh steppe: architecture, urban design, and identity in Astana  7. Leaving Lenin: elites, official ideology and monuments in the Kyrgyz Republic  8. City of felt and concrete: Negotiating cultural hybridity in Mongolia’s capital of Ulaanbaatar  9. In search of lost time: memory politics in Estonia, 1991–2011