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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141535603321

Autore

Hirt Sonia

Titolo

Iron curtains [[electronic resource] ] : gates, suburbs, and privatization of space in the post-socialist city / / Sonia A. Hirt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley & Sons, 2012

ISBN

1-118-29595-1

1-118-29592-7

1-280-59910-3

1-118-29594-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Studies in Urban and Social Change

Disciplina

307.1/21609171/7

307.1216091717

307.1416094999

Soggetti

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

Equality - Europe, Eastern

Electronic books.

Europe, Eastern Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

IRON CURTAINS: GATES, SUBURBS AND PRIVATIZATION OF SPACE IN THE POST-SOCIALIST CITY; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Public, Private, Privatism; 3 The Post-socialist City; 4 Post-modern Urbanism Revisited; 5 Sofia: Wither the Socialist City; 6 The Ninth Ring: Suburbanizing Sofia; 7 Iron Curtains I: Gated Homes; 8 Iron Curtains II: Gated Complexes; 9 Architecture of Disunity; 10 Possibilities; References; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize! The prize is sponsored by Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography. Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the Post