Main entry:

Kiss, Daniel, 1978- author.

Title & Author:

Modeling post-socialist urbanization : the case of Budapest / Daniel Kiss.

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2019]
©2019

Description:

206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--ETH Zurich, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194).
Chapter 1: Budapest's post-socialist urbanization. From facts to model and back -- Chapter 2: The socialist urban legacy narrative. Tensions of socialist urbanization -- Chapter 3: The decentralization narrative. Retroactive urban planning vis-à-vis new local governance and property regimes -- Chapter 4: The kulturkampf narrative. From the Hungarian tulip dispute to a post-socialist clash of ideologies -- Chapter 5: The abstract model and its formal scheme. A systemic explanation -- Chapter 6: The Corvin-Quarter. Emergence of an 'absolutely best plan' in the backdrop of post-socialist transformation -- Chapter 7: onclusions and lookout. An abstract model of post-socialist urbanization based on and applied to the case of Budapest.

Summary:

"This book examines Budapest's urban development, planning, and governance between 1990 and 2010. In the face of socialist urbanization's structural legacies, the recent radical decentralization of government and resources and the impacts of a post-socialist war of ideologies, a trend is analyzed which leads to an urbanization mostly characterized by business-dominated development projects not integrated into any grand urban design. The author claims this outcome to be typical of the development of post-socialist cities and presents it in an abstract model establishing links between particular historical background conditions and the phenomena of Budapest's recent urbanization. With a conversation between Kees Christiaanse, Ákos Moravánszky, and the author"--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9783035616460 (hardbound)
3035616469 (hardcover)

Subject:

City planning Hungary Budapest.
Urbanization Hungary Budapest.
Urbanisation Hongrie Budapest.
Buildings.
City planning.
Urbanization.
Budapest (Hungary) Buildings, structures, etc.
Hungary Budapest.

Form/genre:

Theses.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304662
Call No.: BIB 250321
Status: Available