Iron Curtains

Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City

By:

Sonia A. Hirt

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Paperback / softback

Series:

IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series

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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

Author Biography:

Sonia Hirt is Associate Professor of Urban Affairsand Planning at the School of Public and International Affairs andthe College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, andwas recently Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Planning at theGraduate School of Design at Harvard University. Hirt is the authorof over 40 publications on urban forms, planning and design and isco-author of Twenty Years of Transition: The Evolution ofUrban Planning in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union,1989-2009 (2009; with Kiril Stanilov).

Release date Australia

March 23rd, 2012

Author

Sonia A. Hirt

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

256

Series

IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series

Dimensions

152x231x13

ISBN-13

9781444338263

Product ID

18498807

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