Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints : : Global Entanglements of Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period /

Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints : : Global Entanglements of Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period / / ed. by Christoph Bernhardt, Andreas Butter, Monika Motylinska.

Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, building projects and architectural icons played an important role in the self-portrayal of the competing systems. However, as the current research shows, we also find a large variety of forms of cooperation between the East, the South, and the West, not to for...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bernhardt, Christoph,
Butter, Andreas,
Erofeev, Nikolay,
Galjer, Jasna,
Hartmetz, Anne-Kristin,
Klemstein, Franziska,
Lee, Rachel,
Motylińska, Monika,
Petrova, Mariya,
Schwenkel, Christina,
Sprute, Paul,
Stanek, Łukasz,
Stein, Susanne,
Straeten, Jonas van der,
HerausgeberIn:
Bernhardt, Christoph,
Butter, Andreas,
Motylinska, Monika,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Rethinking the Cold War , 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 291 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Global Entanglements of Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period – Approaches and Perspectives
  • I Soviet Transfer: Strategies and Limits
  • Between ‘Self-Sovietisation’ and Soviet Assistance: Urban Planning and Design in China, 1950s–1960s
  • Integrate, Adapt, Collaborate: Concerns of Comecon’s Technical Assistance to Mongolia during the Cold War
  • Prefabricating Uzbekistan? Discourses and Realities of Urban Redevelopment in Tashkent and Samarkand under Soviet Rule
  • II Networks: Comecon, GDR and the “Global South”
  • A Cuban Nickel Plant made in the GDR? The Architecture of a Comecon Joint Venture
  • Between Factory and Fiction – Planning and Implementation of Agro-Industrial Development Projects in Ghana in Cooperation with CMEA Countries, 1960–1966
  • Of Mobility and Earth: Hannah Schreckenbach’s Engagements with Indigenous Architectures in Ghana
  • Stralsund – More than Exchange of Experiences
  • III Media, Perceptions and Afterlives of Socialist Architecture and Planning
  • Architecture of International Zagreb Fair between the East and West
  • Shell Sheds for China: Exported Industrial Architecture from the GDR – Intentions and Reception
  • Settlements of Post-Socialist Development? Reconstructing East German Solidarity through Housing Projects in the Global South after 1990
  • The Afterlife of Architectural Aid to Vietnam: A View from the Global South
  • About the Authors

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