Main entry:

Idealen in beton. English.

Title & Author:

Ideals in concrete : exploring Central and Eastern Europe / editors, Cor Wagenaar, Mieke Dings ; picture editor, Jannes Linders.

Publication:

Amsterdam : Fonds BKVB ; Rotterdam : NAi Publishers ; New York : Available in North, South, and Central America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2004.

Description:

179 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface : Ode to the European city : the example of Central and Eastern Europe / Cor Wagenaar -- Visual essay / Jannes Linders -- Hier wohnt Man gut und sicher. Observations / Anna Tilroe ; 'Hier wohnt man gut und sicher' / Sophia Tabatadze ; New towns become normal towns too / Wolfgang Kil ; Criticism, architecture and public housing / Vincent van Rossem ; The city builder / György Konrád -- Visual essay / Jannes Linders -- New icons. 'Wir sind das Bauvolk' / Jörn Düwel ; The architectural identity of 'European suburbs' : the perception of Ukraine / Bohdan Tscherkes ; On silence and words / Ana Maria Zahariade ; Places without a sense of place : new icons in Central and Eastern Europe / Theo Hauben -- Visual essay / Jannes Linders -- Free market & free-for-all planning. Forget about design / Marc Neelen, Ana Dzokic ; Cities disappear / Bik Van der Pol ; 'Alles wird gut' / Hans Venhuizen ; Learning from Lost Cities : lessons from post-socialist urbanism / Wies Sanders -- Visual essay / Jannes Linders -- Plattenbau. Rise and fall of the 'second socialist city' : Hoyerswerda-Neustadt : an architectural historian's reaction to Franziska Linkerhand (1974), a novel by Brigitte Reimann / Ed Taverne ; Unabashed shamelessness : Plattenbau, relic of the past? / Mikel van Gelderen ; The transformation of collective housing estates / Jannie Vinke ; Perimeter blocks and Plattenbau : the spatial rendering of socialist ideas / Nynke Jutten ; Deserted kitas and bustling kiosks : the transformation of public space and collective amenities in the socialist city / Ingeborg van Lieshout, Annet Ritsema ; Where were landscape architects when the residential Edens were being built? Outdoor spaces in modernist residential districts / Rob Aben -- Visual essay 'Freedom is calling' / Korrie Besems.
Also issued online.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9056624032 (paperback)
9789056624033 (paperback)

Subject:

Association Mitteleuropa
City planning Europe, Eastern History 20th century.
City planning Europe, Central History 20th century.
Urbanisme Europe de l'Est Histoire 20e siècle.
Urbanisme Europe centrale Histoire 20e siècle.
City planning.
Städtebau
Wohnungsbau
Stedenbouw.
Communisme.
Concrete construction Europe, Central.
Concrete construction Europe, Eastern.
Central Europe.
Eastern Europe.
Osteuropa
Mitteleuropa

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Wagenaar, Cor.
Dings, Mieke.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234619
Call No.: NA9183 .I3 2004
Status: Available