Identity in Post-Socialist Public Space: Urban Architecture in Kiev, Moscow, Berlin, and Warsaw

ISBN-13: 9781032062570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str.

Bohdan Cherkes; Józef Hernik

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. Theoretical premises for defining the concept of identity in urban planning and architecture;  2. Public space transformation in the centre of Kiev, and searching for national identity;  3. National identity in the architecture of the public space in the centre of Moscow;  4. An urban planning version of the transformation of Berlin city centre’s public space and identity in the 20th century;  5. The identity of public space: trends and regularities of development