Moscow Under Construction - City Building, Place-Based Protest, and Civil Society

Informationen zum Autor By Robert Argenbright Klappentext This book examines the growth of place-based opposition to destructive redevelopment practices in Moscow and the consequent changes in the city's governance regime. The citizen groups analyzed in this study have struggled to defend specific places of value to communities and, in the process, have built up civil society and advanced democratization. Zusammenfassung This book examines the growth of place-based opposition to destructive redevelopment practices in Moscow and the consequent changes in the city’s governance regime. The citizen groups analyzed in this study have struggled to defend specific places of value to communities and, in the process, have built up civil society and advanced democratization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: City-MakingChapter 2: Two TransitionsChapter 3: Malyi Kozikhinskii Case StudyChapter 4: City Defenders vs. Luzhkov's MachineChapter 5: City-Builders vs. City-Defenders in the First Decade of the New CenturyChapter 6: Accommodation of PurposesChapter 7: "Leave Us in Peace!"Conclusion: Moscow Citizens in a Changing Context

Product details

• Authors: Robert Argenbright, Argenbright Robert
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781498522021
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2202-1
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Urban & municipal planning, Central / national / federal government policies, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Central government policies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet