Making Cities Socialist / Katherine Zubovich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zubovich, Katherine, author.

Series:

Elements in global urban history

Elements in Global Urban History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (78 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press & Assessment, [2024]

Summary:

This Element explores the history of urban planning, city building, and city life in the socialist world. It follows the global trajectories of architects, planners, and ideas about socialist urbanism developed during the twentieth century, while also highlighting features of everyday life in socialist cities. The Element opens with a section on the socialist city as it took shape first in the Soviet Union. Subsequent sections take a comparative and transnational approach to the history of socialist urbanism, tracing socialist city development in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America

Contents:

Showcase Soviet urbanism

The socialist city goes global

Decolonization and the socialist city

The Cold War and the socialist city

The afterlives of socialist cities

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781108852371

1108852378

9781108851756

1108851754

9781108850520

1108850529