Urban Phantasmagorias - Domesticity, Production Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest

Urban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania. The book is an important contribution to scholarship in architectural history and theory, urban and gender studies, and post-socialist and Eastern European studies.

List of contents

1. Phantasmagoria: From West to East 2. Between Orientalism and Modernity: Urban and Domestic Topographies 3. Communist Bucharest 4. Urban Phantasmagorias 5. Gender, Maternity and the Modern Communist Home 6. The Phantasmagoria of the Communist Interior

About the author

Iulia Statica is a Lecturer in Urban Design at The School of Architecture, at the University of Sheffield. She was a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Researcher at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University’s Mario Einaudi Centre for International Studies. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Architecture at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Her research interests focus on the discourses of material culture in (post)communist contexts, and the role of ideologies and their critique in architecture and urbanism.

Summary

Urban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania. The book is an important contribution to scholarship in architectural history and theory, urban and gender studies, and post-socialist and Eastern European studies.

Product details

• Authors: Iulia Statica, Iulia Stătică
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2023
• EAN: 9780367859152
• ISBN: 978-0-367-85915-2
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Architext
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Romania, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social and cultural history, History of Architecture, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Bucharest