Urban Planning During Socialism

Urban Planning During Socialism examines the transformations of cities during the period of state socialism of the 20th century, summarizing the urban and architectural studies that trace their transformations.

Jasna Mariotti is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Queen's University Belfast, UK. Her research focuses on the relationship between urban history, planning and architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries, linking two main themes. The first one focuses on architecture and urban planning under the influence of political organizations and mechanisms of production of space in socialist and post-socialist countries. The second one relates to the architecture of mass housing in particular to the spontaneous and planned practices of transformation of housing estates and changing notions of habitation. Her current research is funded by the EPSRC and The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. Previously she was architect and urban designer in WEST 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture in Rotterdam. Kadri Leetmaa holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Tartu, Estonia. Currently she works as the Head of the Department of Geography and the Associate Professor of human geography at the Centre for Migration and Urban Studies at the University of Tartu. She is the member of the Scientific Board of the Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. Her research topics include urban geography under and after socialism, inequalities in urban and rural space, urban planning and housing policies affecting inequalities, migration, residential preferences, neighborhood change, inter-ethnic contacts in society and space.

Revisiting urban planning during socialism: views from the periphery. An introduction. Jasna Mariotti and Kadri Leetmaa PART I Urban planning, politics and power: relations in the periphery 1 Urbanising the Virgin Lands: at the frontier of Soviet socialist planning Gianni Talamini 2 From Breslau to Wroc-aw. Urban development of the largest city of the Polish "Regained Lands" under socialism Agnieszka Tomaszewicz and Joanna Majczyk 3 Dreaming the Capital: architecture and urbanism as tools for planning the socialist Bratislava Henrieta Morav-íková, Peter Szalay and Laura Krišteková 4 The Yugoslav Skopje: building the brutalist city, 1970-1990 Maja Babi- 5 From reverse colonial trade to antiurbanism Budapest's frustrated urban renewal between 1950 and 1990 in the face of the Soviet world order's anomalous centre-periphery relations Daniel Kiss PART II Architects and urban planners in the socialist city: roles and positions in the periphery 6 Passive agents or genuine facilitators of citizen participation? The role of planners under the Yugoslav self-management socialism Ana Peri- and Mina Blagojevi- 7 The influence of nuclear deterrence during the Cold War on the growth and decline of the peripheral town of Valga/Valka Kadri Leetmaa, Ji-í Tint-ra, Taavi Pae and Daniel B. Hess 8 The role of architects in fighting the monotony of the Lithuanian mass housing estates Marija Dr-mait- PART III The non-politics of everyday life in spatial peripheries during socialism 9 Courtyards, parks and squares of power in Ukrainian cities: planning and reality of everyday life under socialism Kostyantyn Mezentsev, Nataliia Provotar and Oleksiy Gnatiuk 10 Planning urban peripheries for leisure: the plan for Greater Tallinn, 1960-1962 Epp Lankots 11 Gldani: from ambitious experimental project to half-realised Soviet mass-housing district in Tbilisi, Georgia David Gogishvili PART IV Ecology and environment in the socialist periphery 12 New ecological planning and spatial assessment of production sites in socialist industrial Yekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk) in the 1960s-80s Nadezda Gobova 13 Peripheral landscapes: ecology, ideology and form in Soviet non-official architecture Masha Panteleyeva 14 Conceptions of 'nature' and 'the environment' during socialism in Albania: an ecofeminist perspective Dorina Pojani and Elona Pojani