Title & Author:

Echoes of Soviet urbanism : exploring Modernist housing narratives : perspectives on heritage, transformation, and community dynamics in East European and Eurasian microrayons / edited by Barbara Engel.

Publication:

Berlin : DOM Publishers, [2024]
©2024

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (color, black & white) ; 23 cm.

Series:

Basics, 2365-7324 ; 182

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Ajapnyak in Yerevan, Armenia. The case of the earliest microrayons: transforming (in)formalities -- 2. Chilanzar district in Tashkend, Uzbekistan. Analysing legislative transformations, economic reforms, and migration dynamics -- 3. Dubki micro-district in Taganrog, Russia. The missing social dimension in urban development and heritage-making -- 4. Microrayon no. 41 in Kamensk-Uralsky, Russia. Sparkles of heritage-making in the realm of inertia, ignorance, and dismay in the Brezhnev legacy -- 5. Khimmash neighbourhood in Sverdlovsk-Yekaterinburg, Russia. The Soviet palace: from social hub to remnant of the past and back again -- 6. Lazdynai in Vilnius, Lithuania. Creative touches in Soviet mass housing -- 7. Olaine, Latvia. Tacitly embracing the heritage of the Soviet monotown: social and infrastructural dynamics -- 8. Purvciems microrayon in Riga, Latvia. Unravelling the inherited residential patchwork -- 9. North Saltivka in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Spatial neighbourhood development: from socialist city plans to post-war reconstruction -- 10. Solnechny in Samara, Russia. A microrayon's urban renewal prospects through the eyes of planners and residents -- 11. Universitetsky in Irkutsk, Russia. Identifying the value of functional balance -- 12. Vazha-Pshavela block VI in Tbilisi, Georgia. Community-driven spatial transformations -- 13. Vyhurivschyna-Troieshchyna in Kyiv, Ukraine. A housing estate with supergraphics and colour composition.

Summary:

"The book at hand presents thirteen "district stories" from seven post-Soviet countries, written by experts from a variety of disciplines, including architecture, urban and regional planning, public policy and social sciences, and human geography. The authors preset observations of spatial, social, and functional transformations as well as of the formal and informal frameworks, planning strategies, and concepts that lay behind the physical development. The discuss spatial patterns and their modifications with a view to future heritage-sensitive development of the neighbourhoods. They point out unique details and the fact that genius loci makes a difference. The contributions formulate new narratives for large housing estates from the 1960s and identify the potential challenges in responsible planning and the need for action."--Cover flap.

ISBN:

9783869228921 paperback
386922892X paperback

Subject:

City planning Soviet Union History.
Public housing Soviet Union.

Added entries:

Engel, Barbara, editor.
Grundlagen (Berlin, Germany) ; 182.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320994
Call No.: 320994
Copy: 1
Status: Available