Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (OPEN ACCESS)
Wladimir Sgibnev editor Tauri Tuvikene editor Carola S Neugebauer editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
Published:4th Jun '19
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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.
‘This is an important contribution to how we understand the often over-looked role of urban infrastructure in post-socialist change. Covering a tremendous range of places and debates – from water, heating and transport to the consequences for theory, policy and practice - the book powerfully reveals the centrality of infrastructure for urban life, inequalities, development, and futures’ - Colin McFarlane, Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University, UK
'The rich case studies in Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures demonstrate how infrastructure can serve as a site for investigating both the surprising persistence of socialist institutions and material forms, and the effects of dramatic liberalization in countries of the former socialist world. More than simply applying the tools of the "infrastructural turn" to a new set of cases, the contributions capture the distinctive infrastructure legacy of socialist modernity, as well as the sometimes surprising pathways of post-socialist infrastructural change. The volume impressively spans a range of disciplinary discussions—from urban studies to city planning, geography, and STS—that are rarely brought together in studies of infrastructure in the interpretive social sciences.' - Stephen J. Collier, Professor of City and Regional Planning at University of California, Berkeley, USA
‘This is an important contribution to how we understand the often over-looked role of urban infrastructure in post-socialist change. Covering a tremendous range of places and debates – from water, heating and transport to the consequences for theory, policy and practice - the book powerfully reveals the centrality of infrastructure for urban life, inequalities, development, and futures’ - Colin McFarlane, Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University, UK
'The rich case studies in Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures demonstrate how infrastructure can serve as a site for investigating both the surprising persistence of socialist institutions and material forms, and the effects of dramatic liberalization in countries of the former socialist world. More than simply applying the tools of the "infrastructural turn" to a new set of cases, the contributions capture the distinctive infrastructure legacy of socialist modernity, as well as the sometimes surprising pathways of post-socialist infrastructural change. The volume impressively spans a range of disciplinary discussions—from urban studies to city planning, geography, and STS—that are rarely brought together in studies of infrastructure in the interpretive social sciences.' - Stephen J. Collier, Professor of City and Regional Planning at University of California, Berkeley, USA
ISBN: 9780815392651
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
226 pages