Tram, trolleybus and bus services in Eastern-European socialist urban planning

Case studies of Magdeburg, Ostrava and Oryol (1950s and 1960s)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10249422
AutoresElvira Khairullina (0000-0003-0004-9704, University of Valladolid, Spain; University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik, Slovakia, autor de correspondencia), Luis Santos y Ganges (0000-0002-0232-7969, Universidad de Valladolid)
Año2021
Volumen42
Número1
Páginas26-57
Fecha de publicación2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Transport History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-5266 • E-ISSN: 1759-3999
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022526620931834
OpenAlexW3036352958
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas15

This study examines urban collective transport policy in the city planning of three European countries under the Socialist Bloc in the 1950s and 1960s. The main aim is to account for the success of the private car in approaches to urban infrastructure and to understand how this affected tramway system planning. This then leads to a new perspective in understanding the conflict between the adoption of transport vehicles: The diversity of argument in tramway planning has been analysed using official publications, professional literature, and the urban and transport plans of the three case study cities. It results that planning solutions prioritised more national and local conditions, their logic and the singularity of their characteristics over the specific principles related to the ideology of the communist regimes

Argument (complex analysis · Civil engineering · Communism · Diversity (politics · Environmental planning · Geography · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Regional science · Transport engineering · Urban planning · Engineering · European history and politics · Law · Public Administration · Urbanization and City Planning