Iron Curtains – Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post–socialist City (eng)
Language: English
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
Series: Book 24 of 38 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change
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- Title
- Iron Curtains – Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post–socialist City (eng)
- Author
- Hirt, Sonia A.
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1444338269
- ISBN 13
- 9781444338263
- Item weight
- 0.34 kilograms
- Series
- Book 24 of 38: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change
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-socialist City explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe.
- Features original data, illustrations, and theory on the process of privatization of resources in societies undergoing fundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those in Eastern Europe
- Represents the sole in-depth monograph on contemporary urbanism in Southeast Europe
- Makes a broader statement on issues of urbanism in Europe and other parts of the world while highlighting the complex connections between cultures and cities
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About the Author
Sonia Hirt is Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at the School of Public and International Affairs and the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, and was recently Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Hirt is the author of over 40 publications on urban forms, planning and design and is co-author of Twenty Years of Transition: The Evolution of Urban Planning in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, 1989-2009 (2009; with Kiril Stanilov).
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