Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms

Lisa B.W. Drummond is an associate professor in the Urban Studies Program In the Department of Social Science at York University.Douglas Young is an associate professor in the Urban Studies Program in the Department of Social Science at York University.

"What this volume does at its best is break the unifying banner of socialist modernity by uncovering how socialist and post-socialist modes of dwelling, planning, and governing unfold through everyday experiences, where "deeply rooted codes rather than formal rules" prevail. And it is exactly that balance between the global reach and at the same time local stories that one should be eager to discover when starting this exciting journey into socialist and post-socialist urbanisms."- Vera Smirnova (Journal of Eurasian Geography and Economics) "Socialist urban legacies are an integral and vital part of the modern world, without which it would look different. Furthermore, these legacies are still in effect and reveal their traces in various spheres, sometimes the most unexpected ones. The authors’ efforts to analyse those influences ‘from around the socialist world’ (p. 3) is thus meaningful, timely, and promising."- Mikhail Ilchenko (Antipode) "This book contributes original research on socialist and post-socialist urbanisms, which is necessary for anyone who strives to understand how past decisions still and very much influence present production of space and of spatial imaginations, within either a socialist or post-socialist context."- Oana-Ramona Ilovan, Babes-Bolyai University (Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists)

• Introduction: Socialist and Post-Socialist UrbanismsLisa B. Welch Drummond and Douglas Young Part 1: Housing Experiences and Life Trajectories 1. From Socialist Moderns to Urban Poor: Gender and the Housing Question in Post-Reform Vinh City Christina Schwenkel 2. From ABC to Post-Industrial Suburb: Living in a VisionBo Larsson (Translated from Swedish by Aidan Allen)3. The Rise and Fall of Collective Housing: Hanoi between Vision and DecisionLisa B. Welch Drummond and Nguyen Thanh Binh 4. Wrestling with the Soviet State: A Life History of Housing in LeningradThomas Borén and Michael GentilePart 2: Planning and Architecture: Designing Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms 5. Only Visions: The Case of South City, PragueSteven Logan 6. Phnom Penh During and after Socialism: Permanence and Reshaping of the Urban CentralityGabriel Fauveaud 7. Planning for "Renaissance": Vanguard Urbanism in Addis AbabaJesse McClelland 8. Recuperate, Recycle, Reuse: Adaptive Solutions for the Socialist Architecture of BucharestLaura Visan 9. The Paradox of Preserving Modernism: Heritage Debates at Alexanderplatz, BerlinMarkus Kip and Douglas YoungPart 3: Governance and Social Order10. China’s "New" Socialist City: From Red Aesthetics to Standard Urban GovernanceCarolyn Cartier 11. Property Relations and the Politics of the Suburban Living Place in the Post-Communist City: Transition Stories from Tirana, AlbaniaMarcela Mele and Andrew E.G. Jonas12. Urban Natures in Managua, NicaraguaLaura Shillington 13. The Reshaping of Post-Socialist Hồ Chí Minh City: Leisure Practices and Social ControlMarie Gibert and Emmanuelle Peyvel14. Mapping Khujand: The Governance of Spatial Representation in Post-Socialist TajikistanWladimir SgibnevConclusionDouglas Young and Lisa B. Welch DrummondContributors