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Considering the endurance of socialist spaces in contemporary, political, and cultural environments, this book investigates key aspects of socialist urbanism.
List of contents
Introduction: Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms
Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Douglas Young
Part 1: Housing Experiences and Life Trajectories
1. From Socialist Moderns to Urban Poor: Gender and the Housing Question in Post-Reform Vinh City
Christina Schwenkel
2. From ABC to Post-Industrial Suburb: Living in a Vision
Bo Larsson (Translated from Swedish by Aidan Allen)
3. The Rise and Fall of Collective Housing: Hanoi between Vision and Decision
Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Nguyen Thanh Binh
4. Wrestling with the Soviet State: A Life History of Housing in Leningrad
Thomas Borén and Michael Gentile
Part 2: Planning and Architecture: Designing Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms
5. Only Visions: The Case of South City, Prague
Steven Logan
6. Phnom Penh During and after Socialism: Permanence and Reshaping of the Urban Centrality
Gabriel Fauveaud
7. Planning for "Renaissance": Vanguard Urbanism in Addis Ababa
Jesse McClelland
8. Recuperate, Recycle, Reuse: Adaptive Solutions for the Socialist Architecture of Bucharest
Laura Visan
9. The Paradox of Preserving Modernism: Heritage Debates at Alexanderplatz, Berlin
Markus Kip and Douglas Young
Part 3: Governance and Social Order
10. China’s "New" Socialist City: From Red Aesthetics to Standard Urban Governance
Carolyn Cartier
11. Property Relations and the Politics of the Suburban Living Place in the Post-Communist City: Transition Stories from Tirana, Albania
Marcela Mele and Andrew E.G. Jonas
12. Urban Natures in Managua, Nicaragua
Laura Shillington
13. The Reshaping of Post-Socialist H¿ Chí Minh City: Leisure Practices and Social Control
Marie Gibert and Emmanuelle Peyvel
14. Mapping Khujand: The Governance of Spatial Representation in Post-Socialist Tajikistan
Wladimir Sgibnev
Conclusion
Douglas Young and Lisa B. Welch Drummond
Contributors
About the author
Lisa B.W. Drummond is an associate professor in the Urban Studies Program In the Department of Social Science at York University.
Summary
Considering the endurance of socialist spaces in contemporary, political, and cultural environments, this book investigates key aspects of socialist urbanism.
