{"product_id":"socialist-and-postsocialist-urbanisms-9781442632530","title":"Socialist and PostSocialist Urbanisms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocialist cities have special qualities which endure in particular, subtle, and often under-theorized ways. This book engages with socialism on a global scale, as well as the variety of socialist urbanisms and post-socialist urbanisms, and the range of ways in which globalization intersects with changes in socialist and post-socialist cities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOffering a unique international comparative focus, the book’s fourteen case studies from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa are grouped under three main themes: housing experiences and life trajectories, planning and architecture, and governance and social order. Featuring contributors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and research foci, \u003ci\u003eSocialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together a collection of essays on cities that are often overlooked in mainstream urban studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What this volume does at its best is break the unifying banner of socialist modernity by uncovering how socialist and post-socialist modes of dwelling, planning, and governing unfold through everyday experiences, where \"deeply rooted codes rather than formal rules\" prevail. And it is exactly that balance between the global reach and at the same time local stories that one should be eager to discover when starting this exciting journey into socialist and post-socialist urbanisms.\" -- Vera Smirnova * \u003cem\u003eJournal of Eurasian Geography and Economics\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Socialist urban legacies are an integral and vital part of the modern world, without which it would look different. Furthermore, these legacies are still in effect and reveal their traces in various spheres, sometimes the most unexpected ones. The authors’ efforts to analyse those influences ‘from around the socialist world’ (p. 3) is thus meaningful, timely, and promising.\" -- Mikhail Ilchenko * \u003ci\u003eAntipode\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book contributes original research on socialist and post-socialist urbanisms, which is necessary for anyone who strives to understand how past decisions still and very much influence present production of space and of spatial imaginations, within either a socialist or post-socialist context.\" -- Oana-Ramona Ilovan, Babes-Bolyai University * \u003cem\u003eConnections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 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 Hồ 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408358383959,"sku":"9781442632530","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442632530.jpg?v=1730502580","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/socialist-and-postsocialist-urbanisms-9781442632530","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}