Iron Curtains - Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-Socialist City

Informationen zum Autor Sonia Hirt  is Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at the School of Public and International Affairs and the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, and was recently Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Hirt is the author of over 40 publications on urban forms, planning and design and is co-author of  Twenty Years of Transition: The Evolution of Urban Planning in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, 1989-2009  (2009; with Kiril Stanilov). Klappentext Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe.* Features original data, illustrations, and theory on the process of privatization of resources in societies undergoing fundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those in Eastern Europe* Represents the sole in-depth monograph on contemporary urbanism in Southeast Europe* Makes a broader statement on issues of urbanism in Europe and other parts of the world while highlighting the complex connections between cultures and cities Zusammenfassung Iron Curtains explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations and Tables viii Series Editors' Preface xi Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction 1 2 Public, Private, Privatism 14 3 The Post-socialist City 34 4 Post-modern Urbanism Revisited 60 5 Sofia: Wither the Socialist City 81 6 The Ninth Ring: Suburbanizing Sofia 105 7 Iron Curtains I: Gated Homes 131 8 Iron Curtains II: Gated Complexes 149 9 Architecture of Disunity 170 10 Possibilities 191 References 198 Index 220 ...

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• Authors: Hirt, Sa Hirt, Sonia Hirt, Sonia A Hirt, Sonia A. Hirt, Sonia A. (Virginia Tech Hirt, Hirt Sonia A.
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2012
• EAN: 9781444338263
• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3826-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in Urban and Social Change; Studies in Urban and Social Ch; Studies in Urban and Social Change; IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Geographie, Sociology, Geography, Stadtsoziologie, Stadtgeographie, Urban Sociology, Urban geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy