The post socialist city
Subtitle: continuity and change in urban space and imagery
By: Alfrun Kliems, Marina Dmitrieva (eds.).
Series: Jovis diskurs; Jovis Diskurs
Publisher: Jovis Verlag
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9783868590180
Subjects: Post-communism; Postmodern Architecture; Architecture; Modern Architecture
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical concepts. Representations and images of "recent history" :; title: the transition of post-socialist landscape icons  -- Mariusz Czepczyński ;; title: Towards banalization? :; title: trans-forming the legacies of the post-socialist city  -- Lydia Coudroy de Lille, Miléna Guest ;; title: A cumbersome heritage :; title: political monuments and buildings of the GDR in reunited Germany  -- Arnold Bartetzky; title: Artistic realizations. Urban "truths" :; title: artistic intervention in post-socialist space  -- Cynthia Imogen Hammond ;; title: Screening the post-Soviet metropolis :; title: representations of urbanity in contemporary Russian cinema  -- Eva Binder ;; title: The golden city and the golden shot :; title: images from Prague after the Velvet revolution  -- Alfrun Kliems; title: Discursive recodings. Port-totalitarian and post-colonial experiences :; title: the palace of culture and science and defilad square in Warsaw  -- Malgorzata Omilanowska ;; title: Cultural policy as the politics of history :; title: independence square in Kiev  -- Wilfried Jilge ;; title: The presence of the recent past :; title: difficult transformations of "paradigmatic socialist city" :; title: Dunaújváros  -- Béla Kerékgyártó ;; title: Projected happiness :; title: old myths and new ambitions in a Bucharest neighborhood  -- Carmen Popescu ;; title: Bucharest as a battleground, 1989-2009  -- Augustin Ioan; title: Economic conditions. Turbo urbanism in Prishtina  -- Kai Vöckler ;; title: Astana, Almaty, and Aktau :; title: architectural experiments in the steppes of Kazakhstan  -- Philipp Meuser ;; title: Post-socialist or postmodernist? :; title: the search for a new urbanism in Armenia  -- Tigran Harutyunian ;; title: List of authors ;; title: Image credits.