8. Recuperate, Recycle, Reuse: Adaptive Solutions for the Socialist Architecture of Bucharest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms 1
6. Part One – Housing Experiences and Life Trajectories
7. 1. From Socialist Moderns to the New Urban Poor: Gender and the Housing Question in Vinh City, Vietnam 27
8. 2. From ABC to Post-Industrial Suburb – Living in a Vision 50
9. 3. The Rise and Fall of Collective Housing: Hanoi between Vision and Decision 69
10. 4. Wrestling with the Soviet State: A Life History of Housing in Leningrad 89
11. Part Two – Planning and Architecture: Designing Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms
12. 5. In the Spaces between Buildings: The Case of South City, Prague 113
13. 6. Reworking the Meanings of Urbanity in Post-Socialist Phnom Penh: Toward a Commodification of Urban Centrality 129
14. 7. Planning for “Renaissance”: Vanguard Urbanism in Addis Ababa 153
15. 8. Recuperate, Recycle, Reuse: Adaptive Solutions for the Socialist Architecture of Bucharest 168
16. 9. The Paradox of Preserving Modernism: Heritage Debates at Alexanderplatz, Berlin 185
17. Part Three – Governance and Social Order
18. 10. China’s “New” Socialist City: From Red Aesthetics to Standard Urban Governance 207
19. 11. Property Relations and the Politics of the Suburban Living Place in the Post-Communist City: Transition Stories from Tirana, Albania 227
20. 12. Urban Natures in Managua, Nicaragua 246
21. 13. The Reshaping of Post-Socialist Ho Chi Minh City: Leisure Practices and Social Control 263
22. 14. Mapping Khujand: The Governance of Spatial Representations in Post-Socialist Tajikistan 282
23. Conclusion 301
24. Contributors 309
25. Index 315