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Architecture in Global Socialism - Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War (Hardcover)
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Architecture in Global Socialism - Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War (Hardcover)
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How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked
collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the
Soviet era In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and
construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a
vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East
in order to bring modernization to the developing world.
Architecture in Global Socialism shows how their collaboration
reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad,
Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Lukasz Stanek describes how local
authorities and professionals in these cities drew on Soviet
prefabrication systems, Hungarian and Polish planning methods,
Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East
German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern
Europe. He explores how the socialist development path was adapted
to tropical conditions in Ghana in the 1960s, and how Eastern
European architectural traditions were given new life in 1970s
Nigeria. He looks at how the differences between socialist foreign
trade and the emerging global construction market were exploited in
the Middle East in the closing decades of the Cold War. Stanek
demonstrates how these and other practices of global cooperation by
socialist countries-what he calls socialist worldmaking-left their
enduring mark on urban landscapes in the postcolonial world.
Featuring an extensive collection of previously unpublished images,
Architecture in Global Socialism draws on original archival
research on four continents and a wealth of in-depth interviews.
This incisive book presents a new understanding of global
urbanization and its architecture through the lens of socialist
internationalism, challenging long-held notions about modernization
and development in the Global South.
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