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The cultural landscapes of Central European cities reflect over
half a century of socialism and are marked by the Marxists' vision
of a utopian landscape. Architecture, urban planning and the visual
arts were considered to be powerful means of expressing the
'people's power'. However, since the velvet revolutions of 1989,
this urban scenery has been radically transformed by new forces and
trends, infused by the free market, democracy and liberalization.
This has led to 'landscape cleansing' and 'recycling', as these
former communist nations used new architectural, functional and
social forms to transform their urbanscapes, their meanings and
uses. Comparing case studies from different post-socialist cities,
this book examines the culturally conditional variations between
local powers and structures despite the similarities in the general
processes and systems. It considers the contemporary cultural
landscapes of these post-socialist cities as a dynamic fusion of
the old communist forms and new free-market meanings, features and
democratic practices, of global influences and local icons. The
book assesses whether these urbanscapes clearly reflect the social,
cultural and political conditions and aspirations of these
transitional countries and so a critical analysis of them provides
important insights.
The cultural landscapes of Central European cities reflect over
half a century of socialism and are marked by the Marxists' vision
of a utopian landscape. Architecture, urban planning and the visual
arts were considered to be powerful means of expressing the
'people's power'. However, since the velvet revolutions of 1989,
this urban scenery has been radically transformed by new forces and
trends, infused by the free market, democracy and liberalization.
This has led to 'landscape cleansing' and 'recycling', as these
former communist nations used new architectural, functional and
social forms to transform their urbanscapes, their meanings and
uses. Comparing case studies from different post-socialist cities,
this book examines the culturally conditional variations between
local powers and structures despite the similarities in the general
processes and systems. It considers the contemporary cultural
landscapes of these post-socialist cities as a dynamic fusion of
the old communist forms and new free-market meanings, features and
democratic practices, of global influences and local icons. The
book assesses whether these urbanscapes clearly reflect the social,
cultural and political conditions and aspirations of these
transitional countries and so a critical analysis of them provides
important insights.
Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines
contemporary public space as a result of intense social production
reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the
global crisis, manifested in supranational trade-offs between
political influence, state power and private ownership; and the
appearance of global counter-actors, enabled by the expansion of
digital communication and networking technologies and rooted into
new participatory cultures, easily growing into mobile cultures of
protest. The highlighted cases from Europe, Asia, Africa and North
America reveal the roots of the pre-crisis processes of
redistribution of capital and power as an aspect of the transition
from the consumerist past into the post-consumerist present, by
tracing the slow growth of social discontent that has led only a
few years later to the mobilization of a new kind of self-conscious
globally-acting class. This edited volume brings together a broad
range of interdisciplinary discussions and approaches, providing
sociologists, cultural geographers, and urban planning academics
and students with an opportunity to explore the various social,
cultural, economic and political factors leading to reappropriation
and reimagination of the urban commons in the cities within which
we live.
Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines
contemporary public space as a result of intense social production
reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the
global crisis, manifested in supranational trade-offs between
political influence, state power and private ownership; and the
appearance of global counter-actors, enabled by the expansion of
digital communication and networking technologies and rooted into
new participatory cultures, easily growing into mobile cultures of
protest. The highlighted cases from Europe, Asia, Africa and North
America reveal the roots of the pre-crisis processes of
redistribution of capital and power as an aspect of the transition
from the consumerist past into the post-consumerist present, by
tracing the slow growth of social discontent that has led only a
few years later to the mobilization of a new kind of self-conscious
globally-acting class. This edited volume brings together a broad
range of interdisciplinary discussions and approaches, providing
sociologists, cultural geographers, and urban planning academics
and students with an opportunity to explore the various social,
cultural, economic and political factors leading to reappropriation
and reimagination of the urban commons in the cities within which
we live.
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