|
Showing 1 - 3 of
3 matches in All Departments
Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on often
forgotten, but some of the most essential, aspects of contemporary
urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion
of post-socialist transformation. As the skeletons of cities,
infrastructures capture the ways in which urban environments are
assembled and urban lives unfold. Focusing on post-socialist
cities, marked by neoliberalisation, polarisation and hybridity,
this book offers new and enriching perspectives on urban
infrastructures by centering on the often marginalised aspects of
urban research-transport, green spaces, and water and heating
provision. Featuring cases from West and East alike, the book
covers examples from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia,
Germany, Russia, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic,
Tajikistan, and India. It provides original insights into the
infrastructural back end of post-socialist cities for scholars,
planners and activists interested in urban geography, cultural and
social anthropology, and urban studies.
In the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility
has transformed street life in postsocialist cities. Whereas
previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist modes
of mobility, they are now overtaken by a culture of privately owned
cars. If Cars Could Walk uses ethnographic cases studies
documenting these changes in terms of street interaction, vehicles
used, and the parameters of speed, maneuverability, and cultural
and symbolic values. The altered reality of people’s movements,
replacing public transport, bicycles and other former
‘socialist’ modes of mobility with privatized mobility reflect
an evolving political and cultural imagination, which in turn
shapes their current political reality.
Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on often
forgotten, but some of the most essential, aspects of contemporary
urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion
of post-socialist transformation. As the skeletons of cities,
infrastructures capture the ways in which urban environments are
assembled and urban lives unfold. Focusing on post-socialist
cities, marked by neoliberalisation, polarisation and hybridity,
this book offers new and enriching perspectives on urban
infrastructures by centering on the often marginalised aspects of
urban research-transport, green spaces, and water and heating
provision. Featuring cases from West and East alike, the book
covers examples from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia,
Germany, Russia, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic,
Tajikistan, and India. It provides original insights into the
infrastructural back end of post-socialist cities for scholars,
planners and activists interested in urban geography, cultural and
social anthropology, and urban studies.
|
You may like...
Shelf Love
Yotam Ottolenghi, Noor Murad, …
Paperback
R595
R475
Discovery Miles 4 750
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|