Description: Further DetailsTitle: Architecture in Global SocialismCondition: NewEAN: 9780691168708ISBN: 9780691168708Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/14/2020Item Height: 279mmItem Length: 203mmAuthor: Lukasz StanekLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold WarISBN-10: 0691168709Description: How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world. Architecture in Global Socialism shows how their collaboration reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City.Łukasz Stanek describes how local authorities and professionals in these cities drew on Soviet prefabrication systems, Hungarian and Polish planning methods, Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern Europe. He explores how the socialist development path was adapted to tropical conditions in Ghana in the 1960s, and how Eastern European architectural traditions were given new life in 1970s Nigeria. He looks at how the differences between socialist foreign trade and the emerging global construction market were exploited in the Middle East in the closing decades of the Cold War. Stanek demonstrates how these and other practices of global cooperation by socialist countries—what he calls socialist worldmaking—left their enduring mark on urban landscapes in the postcolonial world.Featuring an extensive collection of previously unpublished images, Architecture in Global Socialism draws on original archival research on four continents and a wealth of in-depth interviews. This incisive book presents a new understanding of global urbanization and its architecture through the lens of socialist internationalism, challenging long-held notions about modernization and development in the Global South.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Architecture & Antiques, HistoryRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Architecture in Global Socialism
Title: Architecture in Global Socialism
EAN: 9780691168708
ISBN: 9780691168708
Release Date: 01/14/2020
Release Year: 2020
Subtitle: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
ISBN-10: 0691168709
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Name: Architecture in Global Socialism : Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, History / Contemporary (1945-), Regional
Item Weight: 55.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Architecture
Item Length: 11.2 in
Author: ŁUkasz Stanek
Item Width: 8.2 in
Format: Hardcover