Architecture in Global Socialism

Zusatztext " Architecture in Global Socialism provides much-needed cornerstones to advance spatial political economy." ---Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Housing Studies Informationen zum Autor ¿ukasz Stanek Klappentext How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modThe first study of how the built environments and urban landscapes of parts of west Africa and the Middle East were impacted by the operations of Eastern European architects and urbanists. Zusammenfassung How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring mod

Product details

• Authors: Lukasz Stanek, Stanek Lukasz
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.2019
• EAN: 9780691168708
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16870-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 208 mm x 2876 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, History of Architecture, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence