Iron curtains : gates, suburbs, and privatization of space in the post-socialist city / Sonia A. Hirt.
Material type: TextPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley & Sons, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781118295946
- 1118295943
- 9781118295922
- 1118295927
- 9781118295953
- 1118295951
- City planning -- Former communist countries
- City planning -- Europe, Eastern
- Property -- Former communist countries
- Property -- Europe, Eastern
- Gated communities -- Former communist countries
- Gated communities -- Europe, Eastern
- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Equality -- Europe, Eastern
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning
- City planning
- Equality
- Gated communities
- Property
- Social conditions
- Europe, Eastern
- Former communist countries
- 2000-2099
- 307.1/21609171/7 23
- HT169.E82 H57 2012eb
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.
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.
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