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Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms
Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective
Lisa B W. Drummond (Author), Douglas Young (Author)
9781442632530
Paperback / softback, published 3 March 2020
336 pages, 34 b&w illustrations, 14 b&w maps, 2 b&w tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.46 kg
"What this volume does at its best is break the unifying banner of socialist modernity by uncovering how socialist and post-socialist modes of dwelling, planning, and governing unfold through everyday experiences, where "deeply rooted codes rather than formal rules" prevail. And it is exactly that balance between the global reach and at the same time local stories that one should be eager to discover when starting this exciting journey into socialist and post-socialist urbanisms." "Socialist urban legacies are an integral and vital part of the modern world, without which it would look different. Furthermore, these legacies are still in effect and reveal their traces in various spheres, sometimes the most unexpected ones. The authors’ efforts to analyse those influences ‘from around the socialist world’ (p. 3) is thus meaningful, timely, and promising." "This book contributes original research on socialist and post-socialist urbanisms, which is necessary for anyone who strives to understand how past decisions still and very much influence present production of space and of spatial imaginations, within either a socialist or post-socialist context."
Socialist cities have special qualities which endure in particular, subtle, and often under-theorized ways. This book engages with socialism on a global scale, as well as the variety of socialist urbanisms and post-socialist urbanisms, and the range of ways in which globalization intersects with changes in socialist and post-socialist cities. Offering a unique international comparative focus, the book’s fourteen case studies from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa are grouped under three main themes: housing experiences and life trajectories, planning and architecture, and governance and social order. Featuring contributors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and research foci, Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms brings together a collection of essays on cities that are often overlooked in mainstream urban studies.
Introduction: Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms Part 1: Housing Experiences and Life Trajectories 1. From Socialist Moderns to Urban Poor: Gender and the Housing Question in Post-Reform Vinh City 2. From ABC to Post-Industrial Suburb: Living in a Vision 3. The Rise and Fall of Collective Housing: Hanoi between Vision and Decision 4. Wrestling with the Soviet State: A Life History of Housing in Leningrad Part 2: Planning and Architecture: Designing Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms 5. Only Visions: The Case of South City, Prague 6. Phnom Penh During and after Socialism: Permanence and Reshaping of the Urban Centrality 7. Planning for "Renaissance": Vanguard Urbanism in Addis Ababa 8. Recuperate, Recycle, Reuse: Adaptive Solutions for the Socialist Architecture of Bucharest 9. The Paradox of Preserving Modernism: Heritage Debates at Alexanderplatz, Berlin Part 3: Governance and Social Order 10. China’s "New" Socialist City: From Red Aesthetics to Standard Urban Governance 11. Property Relations and the Politics of the Suburban Living Place in the Post-Communist City: Transition Stories from Tirana, Albania 12. Urban Natures in Managua, Nicaragua 13. The Reshaping of Post-Socialist Hồ Chí Minh City: Leisure Practices and Social Control 14. Mapping Khujand: The Governance of Spatial Representation in Post-Socialist Tajikistan Conclusion Contributors
Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Douglas Young
Christina Schwenkel
Bo Larsson (Translated from Swedish by Aidan Allen)
Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Nguyen Thanh Binh
Thomas Borén and Michael Gentile
Steven Logan
Gabriel Fauveaud
Jesse McClelland
Laura Visan
Markus Kip and Douglas Young
Carolyn Cartier
Marcela Mele and Andrew E.G. Jonas
Laura Shillington
Marie Gibert and Emmanuelle Peyvel
Wladimir Sgibnev
Douglas Young and Lisa B. Welch Drummond