Sonia Hirt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1555038 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sonia Hirt |
| NOMBRES | Sonia |
| APELLIDO | Hirt |
| FIRMA | HIRT S |
| AFILIACIONES | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9768-1062 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 231 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Stephen Ramos (1970–2026)
It is with enormous sadness and still with a sense of profound shock that we have to record the death of our esteemed colleague Stephen Ramos, who passed away on 20 January of this year. In the fol
Arbitrary Lines
Long gone are the times when zoning seemed a subject fit for a narrow circle of experts. In the last decade or so, several noteworthy books on zoning have been published, alongside dozens, if not h
The Planner’s Pentangle
The planner’s triangle—the model that visually defined planning as the balance of equity, economy, and environment to achieve sustainability—has influenced theory, practice, and pedagogy for a quarter of a century. We argue that the triangle requires updating. Even if sustainability remains the center of planning’s conceptual model, the vertices must be rethought. We propose a planner’s pentangle with five priorities as vertices: Wellness, Equity…
Planning, Pluralism, Markets
What approaches should be used to plan urban development in pluralistic societies? This paper argues that the decentralized planning method is a better fit for pluralistic societies, not only because it is inherently more democratic but also because it provides a better framework for the functioning of markets. We first distinguish between centralized and decentralized planning (acknowledging that in reality all forms of planning fall somewhere i…
Better by design? Architecture, urban planning, and the good city , by Paul L. Knox Better by design? Architecture, urban planning, and the good city , by Paul L. Knox, Blacksburg, VA, Virginia Tech P…
Jacobs, Jane
Jane Jacobs was a renowned American Canadian author and activist, best known for her “commonsense” contributions to urbanism and urban planning. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities is considered one of the most significant books on urban planning policy ever written. In this book Jacobs advocated mixed‐use principles, retrofitting urban neighborhoods, and participatory planning. She also coined some important terms such as “sidew…
Conceptual forum
This conceptual forum consists of three contributions that critically assess the relevance of the theme issue’s central concept – the post-socialist city. By doing so, we elaborate on a long-standing discussion that has been taking place among urban scholars interested in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which is whether and to what extent “post-socialist” still makes sense to describe and understand what has been happening in this region’s citi…
Rooting out mixed use
Planning During Post-Socialism
Designing Tito’s capital
Form Follows Function? How America Zones
For nearly a hundred years, most urban development control in the United States has been exercised through functional zoning—a system that divides cities into blocks of land and assigns a functional class to each (e.g. residential, business, industrial). Over the last few decades, however, much attention has been focused on the need to reform the system. Reform advocates have criticized conventional zoning on economic, social and environmental gr…
Neoliberal Doctrine Meets the Eastern Bloc
Home, Sweet Home
This paper explores the emergence of zoning in early twentieth-century America against the background of zoning in two European countries: Germany and England. The common interpretation is that zoning was first used in these countries and then imported to America. But this interpretation neglects the extent to which American zoning began to deviate from European traditions early on. Based on primary and secondary archival sources, this paper tell…
Whatever happened to the (post)socialist city
The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs
Iron Curtains
Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe.Features original data, illustrations, and theory on the process of privatization of resources in societies undergoing fundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those in Eastern EuropeRepresents the …
The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs
Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs’s legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs, Urban Philosopher; II. Jacobs, Urban Economist; II. Jacobs, Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs, Urban Designer, the book evaluates the impact of Jacobs’s writings and activism on the city, the professions dedicated to city-building and, more generally, on human thought. Together, the editors and contr…
The Belgrade Wall
In this article, we discuss the proliferation of gated housing in the Serbian capital of Belgrade since the end of state socialism in 1989. We argue that Belgrade offers insights into the phenomenon of gated housing that the rapidly burgeoning global literature on gated communities has thus far overlooked. Specifically, whereas the literature has focused on the gated community per se (i.e. on relatively large residential groupings to which outsid…
The Gates of Belgrade
Belgrade has experienced a construction boom for private, gated, high-security housing as the "winners" in the postcommunist transition literally wall themselves off from urban crime and poverty
Belgrade, Serbia
Landscapes of Postmodernity
In this article, I discuss recent physical changes in the built fabric of the Serbian capital of Belgrade and the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. I apply two bodies of literature, involving postsocialist urban transitions and postmodern urban transitions. I present empirical observations on changes in building functions, scales, and styles in both cities. I show that certain general common traits prevail in the evolution of urban forms in both Belgra…
Stuck in the suburbs? Gendered perspectives on living at the edge of the post-communist city
Suburbanizing Sofia
In this article, I discuss the nature of peri-urban growth in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. I argue that since the end of socialism in 1989, Sofia's peri-urban growth has been driven primarily by affluent households relocating from the central city to its scenic southern outskirts in search of a higher quality of life. In this sense, the process exhibits the classic signs of Western-style suburbanization and is qualitatively different from the …
Post-Socialist Urban Forms
This essay reviews some key processes shaping the transformation of urban forms that have occurred in Sofia, Bulgaria since the end of socialism in 1989. It introduces quantitative and qualitative evidence of five processes of change: growth of the urban periphery, decrease of spatial scale, privatization of space, land-use diversification, and pluralization of styles. Although Sofia's built fabric is generally changing in ways familiar to schola…
Toward Postmodern Urbanism
This article analyzes the meaning of postmodernism in planning through the in-depth study of the evolution of planning and zoning in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland was selected because of its innovative and highly visible planning tradition, which has weaved through the main historic stages of American planning, and has served as a planning laboratory nationwide. The article investigates whether a postmodern planning transition in Cleveland is detect…
Suburbanizing Sofia
In this article, I discuss the nature of peri-urban growth in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. I argue that since the end of socialism in 1989, Sofia's peri-urban growth has been driven primarily by affluent households relocating from the central city to its scenic southern outskirts in search of a higher quality of life. In this sense, the process exhibits the classic signs of Western-style suburbanization and is qualitatively different from the …
Whatever happened to the (post)socialist city
Landscapes of Postmodernity
In this article, I discuss recent physical changes in the built fabric of the Serbian capital of Belgrade and the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. I apply two bodies of literature, involving postsocialist urban transitions and postmodern urban transitions. I present empirical observations on changes in building functions, scales, and styles in both cities. I show that certain general common traits prevail in the evolution of urban forms in both Belgra…
Conceptual forum
This conceptual forum consists of three contributions that critically assess the relevance of the theme issue’s central concept – the post-socialist city. By doing so, we elaborate on a long-standing discussion that has been taking place among urban scholars interested in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which is whether and to what extent “post-socialist” still makes sense to describe and understand what has been happening in this region’s citi…
Post-Socialist Urban Forms
This essay reviews some key processes shaping the transformation of urban forms that have occurred in Sofia, Bulgaria since the end of socialism in 1989. It introduces quantitative and qualitative evidence of five processes of change: growth of the urban periphery, decrease of spatial scale, privatization of space, land-use diversification, and pluralization of styles. Although Sofia's built fabric is generally changing in ways familiar to schola…
Neoliberal Doctrine Meets the Eastern Bloc
Home, Sweet Home
This paper explores the emergence of zoning in early twentieth-century America against the background of zoning in two European countries: Germany and England. The common interpretation is that zoning was first used in these countries and then imported to America. But this interpretation neglects the extent to which American zoning began to deviate from European traditions early on. Based on primary and secondary archival sources, this paper tell…
Rooting out mixed use
The Belgrade Wall
In this article, we discuss the proliferation of gated housing in the Serbian capital of Belgrade since the end of state socialism in 1989. We argue that Belgrade offers insights into the phenomenon of gated housing that the rapidly burgeoning global literature on gated communities has thus far overlooked. Specifically, whereas the literature has focused on the gated community per se (i.e. on relatively large residential groupings to which outsid…
Stuck in the suburbs? Gendered perspectives on living at the edge of the post-communist city
Belgrade, Serbia
Toward Postmodern Urbanism
This article analyzes the meaning of postmodernism in planning through the in-depth study of the evolution of planning and zoning in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland was selected because of its innovative and highly visible planning tradition, which has weaved through the main historic stages of American planning, and has served as a planning laboratory nationwide. The article investigates whether a postmodern planning transition in Cleveland is detect…
The Planner’s Pentangle
The planner’s triangle—the model that visually defined planning as the balance of equity, economy, and environment to achieve sustainability—has influenced theory, practice, and pedagogy for a quarter of a century. We argue that the triangle requires updating. Even if sustainability remains the center of planning’s conceptual model, the vertices must be rethought. We propose a planner’s pentangle with five priorities as vertices: Wellness, Equity…
The Gates of Belgrade
Belgrade has experienced a construction boom for private, gated, high-security housing as the "winners" in the postcommunist transition literally wall themselves off from urban crime and poverty
Toward Postmodern Urbanism
This article analyzes the meaning of postmodernism in planning through the in-depth study of the evolution of planning and zoning in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland was selected because of its innovative and highly visible planning tradition, which has weaved through the main historic stages of American planning, and has served as a planning laboratory nationwide. The article investigates whether a postmodern planning transition in Cleveland is detect…
Post-Socialist Urban Forms
This essay reviews some key processes shaping the transformation of urban forms that have occurred in Sofia, Bulgaria since the end of socialism in 1989. It introduces quantitative and qualitative evidence of five processes of change: growth of the urban periphery, decrease of spatial scale, privatization of space, land-use diversification, and pluralization of styles. Although Sofia's built fabric is generally changing in ways familiar to schola…
Suburbanizing Sofia
In this article, I discuss the nature of peri-urban growth in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. I argue that since the end of socialism in 1989, Sofia's peri-urban growth has been driven primarily by affluent households relocating from the central city to its scenic southern outskirts in search of a higher quality of life. In this sense, the process exhibits the classic signs of Western-style suburbanization and is qualitatively different from the …
Landscapes of Postmodernity
In this article, I discuss recent physical changes in the built fabric of the Serbian capital of Belgrade and the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. I apply two bodies of literature, involving postsocialist urban transitions and postmodern urban transitions. I present empirical observations on changes in building functions, scales, and styles in both cities. I show that certain general common traits prevail in the evolution of urban forms in both Belgra…
Stuck in the suburbs? Gendered perspectives on living at the edge of the post-communist city
Belgrade, Serbia
The Gates of Belgrade
Belgrade has experienced a construction boom for private, gated, high-security housing as the "winners" in the postcommunist transition literally wall themselves off from urban crime and poverty
The Belgrade Wall
In this article, we discuss the proliferation of gated housing in the Serbian capital of Belgrade since the end of state socialism in 1989. We argue that Belgrade offers insights into the phenomenon of gated housing that the rapidly burgeoning global literature on gated communities has thus far overlooked. Specifically, whereas the literature has focused on the gated community per se (i.e. on relatively large residential groupings to which outsid…
The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs
Iron Curtains
Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe.Features original data, illustrations, and theory on the process of privatization of resources in societies undergoing fundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those in Eastern EuropeRepresents the …
The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs
Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs’s legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs, Urban Philosopher; II. Jacobs, Urban Economist; II. Jacobs, Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs, Urban Designer, the book evaluates the impact of Jacobs’s writings and activism on the city, the professions dedicated to city-building and, more generally, on human thought. Together, the editors and contr…
Form Follows Function? How America Zones
For nearly a hundred years, most urban development control in the United States has been exercised through functional zoning—a system that divides cities into blocks of land and assigns a functional class to each (e.g. residential, business, industrial). Over the last few decades, however, much attention has been focused on the need to reform the system. Reform advocates have criticized conventional zoning on economic, social and environmental gr…
Neoliberal Doctrine Meets the Eastern Bloc
Home, Sweet Home
This paper explores the emergence of zoning in early twentieth-century America against the background of zoning in two European countries: Germany and England. The common interpretation is that zoning was first used in these countries and then imported to America. But this interpretation neglects the extent to which American zoning began to deviate from European traditions early on. Based on primary and secondary archival sources, this paper tell…
Whatever happened to the (post)socialist city
Planning During Post-Socialism
Designing Tito’s capital
Conceptual forum
This conceptual forum consists of three contributions that critically assess the relevance of the theme issue’s central concept – the post-socialist city. By doing so, we elaborate on a long-standing discussion that has been taking place among urban scholars interested in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which is whether and to what extent “post-socialist” still makes sense to describe and understand what has been happening in this region’s citi…
Rooting out mixed use
Jacobs, Jane
Jane Jacobs was a renowned American Canadian author and activist, best known for her “commonsense” contributions to urbanism and urban planning. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities is considered one of the most significant books on urban planning policy ever written. In this book Jacobs advocated mixed‐use principles, retrofitting urban neighborhoods, and participatory planning. She also coined some important terms such as “sidew…
Planning, Pluralism, Markets
What approaches should be used to plan urban development in pluralistic societies? This paper argues that the decentralized planning method is a better fit for pluralistic societies, not only because it is inherently more democratic but also because it provides a better framework for the functioning of markets. We first distinguish between centralized and decentralized planning (acknowledging that in reality all forms of planning fall somewhere i…
Better by design? Architecture, urban planning, and the good city , by Paul L. Knox Better by design? Architecture, urban planning, and the good city , by Paul L. Knox, Blacksburg, VA, Virginia Tech P…
Arbitrary Lines
Long gone are the times when zoning seemed a subject fit for a narrow circle of experts. In the last decade or so, several noteworthy books on zoning have been published, alongside dozens, if not h
The Planner’s Pentangle
The planner’s triangle—the model that visually defined planning as the balance of equity, economy, and environment to achieve sustainability—has influenced theory, practice, and pedagogy for a quarter of a century. We argue that the triangle requires updating. Even if sustainability remains the center of planning’s conceptual model, the vertices must be rethought. We propose a planner’s pentangle with five priorities as vertices: Wellness, Equity…
Stephen Ramos (1970–2026)
It is with enormous sadness and still with a sense of profound shock that we have to record the death of our esteemed colleague Stephen Ramos, who passed away on 20 January of this year. In the fol
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