UID:
almahu_9949616138502882
Format:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781003805403
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Historical Geography Series
Content:
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Mariotti, Jasna Urban Planning During Socialism Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2023 ISBN 9781032355986
Language:
English
Keywords:
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