Stalinist City Planning : Professionals, Performance, and Power / Heather DeHaan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeHaan, Heather, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953--Influence.

Stalin, Joseph.

City planning--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

City planning.

City planning--Political aspects--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

City planners--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

City planners.

Architecture--Political aspects--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. DeHaan focuses her study on 1930s Nizhnii Novgorod, where planners struggled to accommodate the expectations of a Stalinizing state without sacrificing professional authority and power. Bridging institutional and cultural history, the book brings together a variety of elements of socialism as enacted by planners on a competitive urban stage, such as scientific debate, the crafting of symbolic landscapes, and state campaigns for the development of cultured cities and people. By examining how planners and other urban inhabitants experienced, lived, and struggled with socialism and Stalinism, DeHaan offers readers a much broader, more complex picture of planning and planners than has been revealed to date."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : planners, performance, and power

From Nizhnii to Gorky : setting the stage of socialism

Visionary planning : confronting socio-material agencies

From ivory tower to city street : building a new Nizhnii Novgorod, 1928-1935

Stalinist representation : iconographic vision, 1935-1938

Stalinism as stagecraft : the architecture of performance

A city that builds itself : the limits of technocracy

Performing socialism : connecting space to self

Conclusion : living socialism in the shadow of the political.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-246) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-4426-6521-1

1-4426-6240-9

OCLC:

852803492