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Between solidarity and economic constraints : global entanglements of socialist architecture and planning in the Cold War period / edited by Christoph Bernhardt, Andreas Butter, Monika Motylinska.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rethinking the Cold War (Berlin, Germany) ; 12.
- Rethinking the Cold War ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Modern--20th century.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Architecture and society.
- Cold War.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.) ill
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]
- Summary:
- This peer-reviewed series offers books that illuminate the multifaceted history of the Cold War in both its European and Global dimensions, across and beyond the Iron Curtain. It focuses on the interactions, interdependencies and co-operation of Eastern state socialist countries (and their citizens) with Western capitalist, Latin American, African and non-aligned states (and their citizens), as well as with China.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Global Entanglements of Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period
- Approaches and Perspectives
- I Soviet Transfer: Strategies and Limits
- Between 'Self-Sovietisation' and Soviet Assistance: Urban Planning and Design in China, 1950s-1960s
- Integrate, Adapt, Collaborate: Concerns of Comecon's Technical Assistance to Mongolia during the Cold War
- Prefabricating Uzbekistan? Discourses and Realities of Urban Redevelopment in Tashkent and Samarkand under Soviet Rule
- II Networks: Comecon, GDR and the "Global South"
- A Cuban Nickel Plant made in the GDR? The Architecture of a Comecon Joint Venture
- Between Factory and Fiction
- Planning and Implementation of Agro-Industrial Development Projects in Ghana in Cooperation with CMEA Countries, 1960-1966
- Of Mobility and Earth: Hannah Schreckenbach's Engagements with Indigenous Architectures in Ghana
- Stralsund
- More than Exchange of Experiences
- III Media, Perceptions and Afterlives of Socialist Architecture and Planning
- Architecture of International Zagreb Fair between the East and West
- Shell Sheds for China: Exported Industrial Architecture from the GDR
- Intentions and Reception
- Settlements of Post-Socialist Development? Reconstructing East German Solidarity through Housing Projects in the Global South after 1990
- The Afterlife of Architectural Aid to Vietnam: A View from the Global South
- About the Authors
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-065423-7
- OCLC:
- 1377561971
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