Post socialist urban infrastructures /

Post socialist urban infrastructures / edited by Tauri Tuvikene, Wladimir Sgibnev, Carola S. Neugebauer. - 1 online resource. - Routledge research in planning and urban design .

Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on often forgotten, but someof 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.

9781351190350 1351190350 9781351190343 1351190342 9781351190336 1351190334 9781351190329 1351190326

10.4324/9781351190350 doi


City planning--Former communist countries.
Municipal services--Former communist countries.
Infrastructure (Economics)--Former communist countries.
ARCHITECTURE / Landscape
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning

HT169.E82 / P67 2019eb

307.1/216091717