Post-Utopian Spaces: Transforming and Re-Evaluating Urban Icons of Socialist Modernism

ISBN-13: 9781032197685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Valentin Mihaylov; Mikhail Ilchenko

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.