Making Cities Socialist

This Element explores the history of urban planning, city building, and city life in the socialist world.

Katherine Zubovich (Author)

9781009468077, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 April 2024

88 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.1 cm, 0.27 kg

'A remarkable work, providing us with a fresh perspective for deeply understanding the history of urban planning, city-building and urban life in the socialist world. … It enriches our understanding of the history and characteristics of socialist urbanism and its significance in the context of global urban development. It is an essential read for scholars and researchers interested in urban history, socialist studies and global history.' Jie Zhao, Europe-Asia Studies

This Element explores the history of urban planning, city building, and city life in the socialist world. It follows the global trajectories of architects, planners, and ideas about socialist urbanism developed during the twentieth century, while also highlighting features of everyday life in socialist cities. The Element opens with a section on the socialist city as it took shape first in the Soviet Union. Subsequent sections take a comparative and transnational approach to the history of socialist urbanism, tracing socialist city development in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

1. Introduction
2. Showcase Soviet Urbanism
3. The Socialist City Goes Global
4. Decolonization and the Socialist City
5. The Cold War and the Socialist City
6. The Afterlives of Socialist Cities
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Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]