TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirt,Sonia
TI  - Iron curtains: gates, suburbs, and privatization of space in the post-socialist city 
SN  - 9781118295946
AV  - HT169.E82 H57 2012eb
U1  - 307.1/21609171/7 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - Wiley & Sons
KW  - City planning
KW  - Former communist countries
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Property
KW  - Gated communities
KW  - Equality
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Regional Planning
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Public, private, privatism -- The post-socialist city -- Post-modern urbanism revisited -- Sofia : wither the socialist city -- The ninth ring: suburbanizing Sofia -- Iron curtains I: gated homes -- Iron curtains II: gated complexes -- Architecture of disunity -- Possibilities -- Figures and tables -- Appendix -- References -- Notes; hrm
N2  - Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe. Features original data, illustrations, and theory on the process of privatization of resources in societies undergoing fundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those in Eastern EuropeRepresents the sole in-depth monograph on contemporary urbanism in Southeast EuropeMakes a broader statement on issues of urbanism in Europe and other parts of the w
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118295922
ER  -