Urban Planning During Socialism : : Views from the Periphery.

• Superior document: Routledge Research in Historical Geography Series
• Author: Mariotti, Jasna.
• TeilnehmendeR: Leetmaa, Kadri.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Research in Historical Geography Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (297 pages)

Urban Planning During Socialism examines the transformations of cities during the period of state socialism of the 20th century, summarizing the urban and architectural studies that trace their transformations.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Revisiting urban planning during socialism: Views from the periphery. An introduction -- Further research -- References -- Part I: Urban planning, politics and power: Relations in the periphery -- 1. Urbanising the Virgin Lands: At the frontier of Soviet socialist planning -- Introduction -- Central Asia urbanism from a longue durée perspective -- Phase 1: A point for control -- A tsarist outpost on the Ishim -- Phase 2: A line of a network -- The network - The railway as a territorialist infrastructure -- The linear city - A line in the Virgin Lands: the plan for Tselinograd -- Phase 3: A radial city -- When the periphery became the centre: The construction of a nation in Astana -- A mutated perspective: From a linear to a radial plan -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Note -- References -- 2. From Breslau to Wrocław: Urban development of the largest city of the Polish "Regained Lands" under socialism -- City of Wrocław: Pre-WWII spatial structure -- City of Wrocław: New beginning - People and politics -- Stage 1: Post-WWII damage of Wrocław and the first development plan (1945-1949) -- Stage 2: The episode of Socialist Realism -- reconstruction of the Old Town of Wrocław (1949-1956) -- Stage 3: The Thaw, prefabrication and modernisation of Wrocław's architecture (late 1950s and early 1960s) -- Stage 4: The Athens Charter, large-panel technology and large housing estates of Wrocaw (the 1960s) -- Stage 5: Wrocław Large Panel in search of individuality (the 1970s) -- Stage 6: Return to Downtown (the 1980s) -- Regained" Wrocław -- Notes -- References -- 3. Dreaming the capital: Architecture and urbanism as tools for planning the socialist Bratislava.

A new capital city at the edge of the Eastern Bloc -- The new generation of architects and urbanists and their ambitious plans for socialist Bratislava -- The new centre for Bratislava: A healthy - and large - hearth of the city -- In the name of growth: The southern city district of Petržalka -- The end of Bratislava's great plans? -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 4. The Yugoslav Skopje: Building the brutalist city, 1970-1990 -- Introduction -- The Yugoslav politics, economy and knowledge transfers: 1970-1990 -- Building the brutalist Skopje -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5. From reverse colonial trade to antiurbanism: Frustrated urban renewal in Budapest, 1950-1990 -- Theories of modernisation, global capitalism and the Soviet world order -- From "antiurbanism" to "camelback urbanisation": The emergence of urban periphery in central areas of socialist Budapest -- Reforming the "premature welfare state": Private property and market-type relations in Hungary's command economy -- Ambitious plans from the centre meet shortage economies on the periphery: The frustration of tabula rasa type renewal in Budapest -- Western influence on the Soviet peripheries: Paradigm shifts in heritage protection and urban renewal in Budapest -- The Soviet world order's final hours: A postmodern renewal attempt's fiasco in late socialism and thereafter -- Epilogue: Working class on the periphery -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Architects and urban planners in the socialist city: Roles and positions in the periphery -- 6. Passive agents or genuine facilitators of citizen participation?: The role of urban planners under the Yugoslav self-management socialism -- Introduction -- Setting the scene: Yugoslav socio-economic planning, physical planning and urban planning -- Setting the scene: international planning ideas and domestic planning discourse.

Methodological approach -- Planners in the pursuit of citizen participation: critical reflections -- Participatory planning in practice: the Master Plan of Belgrade 1972 -- Conclusions -- References -- 7. The influence of nuclear deterrence during the Cold War on the growth and decline of the peripheral town of Valga/Valka -- Introduction -- Militarisation of Estonia during the Soviet occupation (1940-1991) -- Strategic missile forces expansion in Estonia during the Cold War -- The transformation of the peripheral town Valga/Valka in the midst of the Cold War -- A joint general plan guides border town development during the 1970s -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 8. The role of architects in fighting the monotony of the Lithuanian mass housing estates -- Introduction -- Standardisation of mass housing as an architectural problem -- Introducing experimental design in Vilnius -- Shaping the individuality of the microrayon: Lazdynai and Žirmūnai as all-union models -- Critique of microrayon and the pursuit of uniqueness over standardisation -- Regionalist approach to mass housing areas -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: The non-politics of everyday life in spatial peripheries during socialism -- 9. Courtyards, parks and squares of power in Ukrainian cities: Planning and reality of everyday life under socialism -- Introduction -- Large ordinary cities - political periphery in the Soviet Union's urban network -- Data and methods -- The square of power and ... for power? -- Central city park: regulated everyday life and satisfaction of residents' demand -- Large housing estate's courtyard: less order, more freedom? -- Everyday public spaces in Vinnytsia and Cherkasy in the 1960s-80s - between standardisation, hierarchisation and modernisation -- Conclusion -- References -- Construction norms and rules, urban planning documents.

10. Planning urban peripheries for leisure: The plan for Greater Tallinn, 1960-1962 -- Introduction -- Central planning and decentralizing the city -- The Greater Tallinn plan and the quest for peri-urban leisure -- Summer house settlements and everyday life in Tallinn's urban periphery -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 11. Gldani: From ambitious experimental project to half-realised Soviet mass-housing district in Tbilisi, Georgia -- Growth of Tbilisi and the birth of mass-housing districts -- The Soviet housing issue and its evolving stages -- The birth of the largest mass-housing district in Tbilisi -- Gldani mass-housing district -- Gldani physical features -- Gldani social features -- Apartment building extensions -- Multiple transitions of Tbilisi: from the 1980s onwards -- Commercial activities -- Gldani today -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part IV: Ecology and environment in the socialist periphery -- 12. New ecological planning and spatial assessment of production sites in socialist industrial Yekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk) in the 1960s-80s -- Planning of Yekaterinburg in the context of general Soviet planning paradigms -- Planning and construction in Yekaterinburg in the 1930s-50s -- New ecological assessment of industrial and residential areas in the 1960s-80s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 13. Peripheral landscapes: Ecology, ideology and form in Soviet non-official architecture -- Nature, city and capital -- Thawing landscapes -- Forms of nature -- Notes -- References -- 14. Conceptions of 'nature' and 'the environment' during socialism in Albania: An ecofeminist perspective -- Introduction -- Background -- Socialist Realism: purpose and method -- Environmental management under socialism -- Study method -- Analysis -- Theme 1: triumph of science and culture over nature -- The swamp -- Mrika.

Joniada -- City lady -- Two checkmates -- The scarecrow -- When it rains -- Theme 2: emerging environmental consciousness -- Lil' gypsy woman -- Beni walks on his own -- The train departs at 6:55 -- Planting trees -- The great river -- The globe -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.