Urban Planning During Socialism : : : Views from the Periphery / / Jasna Mariotti, Kadri Leetmaa, editor.

• Superior document: Routledge research in historical geography series.
• TeilnehmendeR: Mariotti, Jasna,; Leetmaa, Kadri,
• Place / Publishing House: Abingdon, Oxon : : Routledge,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge research in historical geography.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 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. The book focuses primarily on the periphery of the socialist world, both spatially and in terms of scholarly thinking. It does so through a case study of Budapest's post-war urbanisation and Valga, Estonia drawing on cultural and material studies to demonstrate diverse and novel concepts of 'periphery' through transformations of socialist cityscapes rather than homogenous views on cities during the period of state socialism of the 20th century. In doing so the book explores the transversalities of political, economic, and social phenomena; the places for everyday life in socialist cities; the role of professional communities on production and reproduction of space and ecological thinking. This book is aimed at scholarly readership, in particular scholars in architecture, urban planning, and geography, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students in these disciplines studying the urban transformation of cities after World War II in socialist countries. It will also be of interest for planning officials, architects, policymakers and activists in former socialist countries"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Revisiting urban planning during socialism: views from the periphery. -- An introduction.Jasna Mariotti and Kadri Leetmaa -- PART IUrban planning, politics and power: relations in the periphery -- 1 Urbanising the Virgin Lands: at the frontier of Soviet socialist planningGianni Talamini -- 2 From Breslau to Wrocław. Urban development of the largest city of the Polish "Regained Lands" under socialismAgnieszka Tomaszewicz and Joanna Majczyk -- 3 Dreaming the Capital: architecture and urbanism as tools for planning the socialist BratislavaHenrieta Moravčíková, Peter Szalay and Laura Krišteková -- 4 The Yugoslav Skopje: building the brutalist city, 1970-1990Maja Babić -- 5 From reverse colonial trade to antiurbanismBudapest's frustrated urban renewal between 1950 and 1990 in the face of the Soviet world order's anomalous centre-periphery relations Daniel Kiss -- PART IIArchitects 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 planners under the Yugoslav self-management socialismAna Perić and Mina Blagojević -- 7 The influence of nuclear deterrence during the Cold War on the growth and decline of the peripheral town of Valga/ValkaKadri Leetmaa, Jiří Tintěra, Taavi Pae and Daniel B. Hess8 The role of architects in fighting the monotony of the Lithuanian mass housing estates Marija Drėmaitė -- PART IIIThe 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 socialismKostyantyn Mezentsev, Nataliia Provotar and Oleksiy Gnatiuk -- 10 Planning urban peripheries for leisure: the plan for Greater Tallinn, 1960-1962Epp Lankots -- 11 Gldani: from ambitious experimental project to half-realised Soviet mass-housing district in Tbilisi, GeorgiaDavid GogishviliPART IVEcology 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-80sNadezda Gobova -- 13 Peripheral landscapes: ecology, ideology and form in Soviet non-official architectureMasha Panteleyeva -- 14 Conceptions of 'nature' and 'the environment' during socialism in Albania: an ecofeminist perspectiveDorina Pojani and Elona Pojani.