Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (Open Access)

ISBN-13: 9780815392651 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 226 str.

Tauri Tuvikene; Wladimir Sgibnevb; Carola S. Neugebauer

Opis

Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on an often forgotten, but one of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of post-socialist transformation.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Linking Post-Socialist and Urban Infrastructures  2. Energy Poverty in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): Understanding the European Union’s Core-Periphery Divide  3. The Thermodynamics of the Social Contract: Making Infrastructures Visible in the Case of District Heating in Two Towns in Serbia and Croatia  4. Ideologies and Informality in Urban Infrastructure: The Case of Housing in Soviet and Post-Soviet Baku  5. Changing Times, Persistent Inequalities? Patterns of Housing Infrastructure Development in the South Caucasus  6. Post-Soviet ‘Nuclear’ Towns as Multi-Scalar Infrastructures: Relating Sovereignty and Urbanity Through the Perspectives of Visaginas  7. Green Infrastructure in Post-Socialist Cities: Evidence and Experiences from Eastern Germany, Poland and Russia  8. Moscow Urban Development: Neoliberal Urbanism and Green Infrastructures  9. Bengaluru’s Urban Water Infrastructure Through the Lens of Post-Socialism  10. Public Transport in Brno: From Socialist to Post-Socialist Rhythms  11. Predictability and Propinquity on the Sofia Metro: Everyday Metro Journeys and Long-Term Relations of Transport Infrastructuring  12. Infrastructures as Fluidities: How Marshrutkas Help Us to Overcome Static Conceptions of Road-Based Mobility Service Provision  13. Conclusion: Infrastructure and Post-Socialism in Theory and Practice