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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019949303321

Titolo

Cities after socialism : urban and regional change and conflict in post-socialist societies / / edited by Gregory Andrusz, Michael Harloe, Ivan Szelenyi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Cambridge, MA, : Blackwell, 1996

ISBN

9786611840594

9781444399158

1444399152

9781281840592

1281840599

9780470712733

0470712732

9780470712528

047071252X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Collana

Studies in urban and social change

Altri autori (Persone)

AndruszGregory D

HarloeMichael

SzelényiIván

Disciplina

307.760947

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Communist countries

Post-communism

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 (p. [318]-335) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cities After Socialism: Urban and Regional Change and Conflict in Post-Socialist Socities; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Cities in the Transition; 2 Structural Change and Boundary Instability; 3 The Socialist City; 4 Urbanization under Socialism; 5 Privatization and its Discontents: Property Rights in Land and Housing in the Transition in Eastern Europe; 6 Housing Privatization in the Former Soviet Bloc to 1995; 7 From the Socialist to the Capitalist City: Experiences from Germany; 8 Environmental and Housing Movements in Cities after Socialism: The Cases of Budapest and Moscow

9 A New Movement in an Ideological Vacuum: Nationalism in Eastern



Europe10 Cities under Socialism-and After; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Cities After Socialism is the first substantial and authoritative analysis of the role of cities in the transition to capitalism that is occurring in the former communist states of Easter Europe and the Soviet Union. It will be of equal value to urban specialists and to those who have a more general interest in the most dramatic socio-political event of the contemporary era - the collapse of state socialism. Written by an international group of leading experts in the field, Cities after socialism asks and answers some crucial questions about the nature of the emergent post-socialist urb