From socialist to post-socialist cities
Narrating the nation through urban space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander C Diener (0000-0002-6551-354X, University of Kansas, corresponding author), Joshua Hagen (0000-0003-1171-1177, Marshall University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 487-514 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00905992.2013.768217 |
| OpenAlex | W2072765994 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 92 |
The development of post-socialist cities has emerged as a major field of study among critical theorists from across the social sciences. Originally constructed under the dictates of central planners and designed to serve the demands of command economies, post-socialist urban centers currently develop at the nexus of varied and often competing economic, cultural, and political forces. Among these, nationalist aspirations, previously simmering beneath the official rhetoric of communist fraternity and veneer of architectural conformity, have emerged as dominant factors shaping the urban landscape. This article examines patterns, processes, and practices concerning the cultural politics of architecture, urban planning, and identity in the post-socialist city. In addition to assessing the main contours of this burgeoning field of research, this article highlights how this special issue of Nationalities Papers contributes to a broader understanding of contemporary cultural and political change in post-socialist urban settings
Civil engineering · Communism · Conformity · Elite · Nexus (standard · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Urban planning · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Urban Development and Cultural Heritage · Urbanization and City Planning
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The role of landmarks in shaping Tirana’s urban identity
Monumental Landscapes and the Politics of Place
Emotion tracking to compare guided and non-guided architectural experiences in the post-socialist urban context
Dealing with the Material Legacies of Italian Fascist Colonialism in Post-Communist Tirana
Ghostly Presences
In the Soviet Shadow
Alterity-space
Culture-Led Urban Development vs. Capital-Led Colonization of Urban Space
Contrasting mobilities of locals, expatriates and international tourists in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Cultural memory and identity in the context of war
The late modernist community in the late socialistic block of flats
Mobilities of toponymic place branding in an autocratic post-Soviet city
Territorializing national identity in post-socialist Mongolia
Cultural landscape of the Arctic
The Soviet and the Post-Soviet
Ideological Recycling of the Socialist Legacy. Reading Townscapes of Minsk and Astana
The Fortress and the Frontier
Living in Soviet Housing Estates
Tourism, Memory Production and Contested Ethnic Hierarchies in Post-Soviet Almaty
Picturing an industrial city
Public health, physical exercise and non-representational theory – a mixed method study of recreational running in Sofia, Bulgaria
Depoliticizing National Identity Formation in Kazakhstan
The second generation of post-socialist change
Post-Soviet urban renewal and its discontents
The spatial production of simulacrascape in urban China
Ideology in brick and tile
From the Achaemenids to Somoni
Nostalgia for the lost built environment of a socialist city
When “branding” meets “building
Captured City
The Local Dynamics of Nation Building
The role of architecture in the Republic of Georgia's European aspirations
Integrating Rijeka into socialist Yugoslavia
The Post-Soviet City as a Communal Apartment
Where the Aura of a Tyrant Remains”
The “Socialist Modernism” Platform
Urban Public Spaces
The nation in bronze and granite
The Role of Nostalgia in (Re)creating Place Attachments for a Diasporic Community
Three Metals and the 'Post-Socialist City
From monuments to mahallas
The Collective Image of the City
The geography of nationalism in Russia and the USSR
The Affirmative Action Empire
The Post-Socialist City
Urban planning as a tool of power and social control in colonial Africa
The Socialist city
The Siberian Curse
The rites of rulers
Planned city Stalinstadt
Bodies and everyday practices in designed urban environments
Tribal Nation
Empire of Nations
Russia's Postcommunist Past
Geographies of Power in Nazarbayev's Astana
Monumentality in Urban Design
Geopolitics of the Kaliningrad Exclave and Enclave
Giving everyone their due’
Placing In-between
Dhaka and the contestation over the public space
Placing (Post-)Socialism
The Socialist Past and Postsocialist Urban Identity in Central and Eastern Europe
Empty Spaces and the Value of Symbols
Intra-urban landscapes of priority
The Art of the Impossible
Politics, national symbols and the Romanian Orthodox Cathedral
Battlefields of Ethnic Symbols. Public Space and Post-Soviet Identity Formation from a Minority Perspective
Commemorating the Future in Post-War Chernivtsi
Metropolitan processes in post‐communist states
Perfect Representations of Soviet Planned Space
Memorial landscapes
Historical space as narrative medium
Rethinking scale as a geographical category
From urban political economy to cultural political economy
Historic preservation in Nazi Germany
The Soviet city
Constructing national identity in Canada's capital, 1900–2000
Restoring Berlin's Unter den Linden
The changing identity of the Central European city
Islam and the creation of sacred space
Modernist Civic Space and the Case of Brasília
The Battle of Jena
Planning Urbanization and Urban Growth in the Socialist Period
Soviet war memorials and the re-construction of national and local identities in post-communist Poland
Reappraising Communism and Nationalism
Medieval Socialist Artefacts
Plans, Pragmatism and People
Post‐socialism and the changing geographies of the everyday in Poland
National Monumentalization and the Politics of Scale
Unraveling the Threads of History
Changes in the Political Iconography of East Central European Capitals after 1989 (Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava)
Redefining national identity in Uzbekistan
Mapping the nation
Post-Communist Transition
New Places in Old Spaces
Provocations of the built environment
History, Geography and Difference in the Post-socialist World
Architecture, Symbolism, and Function
The Soviet war Memorial in Treptow, Berlin
Hungary after 1989
The Performativity of Scale
Placing and Scaling the Nation
Anxious Enactments
The Cultural Production of Locality
Collective Memory and Narrative Templates
World-City-Entrepreneurialism
Land Acquisition, Landlessness, and the Building of New Delhi
The Ideal Communist City
Performance,ætherialspace and the practice of landscape/architecture
Practising architectures
How Memory was Made
Participatory Governance in Urban Management and the Shifting Geometry of Power in Mumbai
The Rites of Rulers
Separate times, shared spaces
Soviet and Post-Soviet Planning in Almaty, Kazakhstan
The politics of architecture and urbanism in postcolonial Lagos, 1960-1986
| Unique citing works | 43 |
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| Citations per year | 3,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |