Making Cities Socialist

Download or read book Making Cities Socialist written by Katherine Zubovich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element explores the history of urban planning, city building, and city life in the socialist world. It follows the global trajectories of architects, planners, and ideas about socialist urbanism developed during the twentieth century, while also highlighting features of everyday life in socialist cities. The Element opens with a section on the socialist city as it took shape first in the Soviet Union. Subsequent sections take a comparative and transnational approach to the history of socialist urbanism, tracing socialist city development in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.