Hirt Iron Curtains

Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-29595-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change

Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention forthe 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize! The prize issponsored by Harvard University's Davis Center for Russianand Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association forSlavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for an outstandingmonograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe inanthropology, political science, sociology, orgeography.
Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia,Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization ofSpace in the Post-socialist City explores the human dimensionof new city-building that has emerged in East Europe.
* Features original data, illustrations, and theory on theprocess of privatization of resources in societies undergoingfundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those inEastern Europe
* Represents the sole in-depth monograph on contemporaryurbanism in Southeast Europe
* Makes a broader statement on issues of urbanism in Europe andother parts of the world while highlighting the complex connectionsbetween cultures and cities

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirt, Sonia A.

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sonia Hirt is Associate Professor of Urban Affairsand Planning at the School of Public and International Affairs andthe College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, andwas recently Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Planning at theGraduate School of Design at Harvard University. Hirt is the authorof over 40 publications on urban forms, planning and design and isco-author of Twenty Years of Transition: The Evolution ofUrban Planning in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union,1989-2009 (2009; with Kiril Stanilov).