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The Socialist Design: Urban Dilemmas In Postwar Europe And The Soviet Union, Elidor Mehilli

Publications and Research

Taking a cue from two books—Stephen Bittner’s account of the “many lives” of the Soviet Thaw and Greg Castillo’s study of the Cold War as a series of battles in design and the domestic sphere—as well as a recent explosion of interest among historians in the Khrushchev era, “spatial history,” material culture, and East–West exchanges, this article addresses the paradoxes of the Thaw as exemplified in urban form. It argues for the interconnected nature of domestic, international, and Eastern bloc- level dynamics by viewing processes of the Thaw simultaneously from the angles of neighborhood, city, and empire. These angles capture …

Spaces Of Identity In East European Cities, Carola Hein

Growth and Structure of Cities Faculty Research and Scholarship

Review of

Czaplicka, John; Gelazis, Nida; Ruble, Blair A., eds. (2009). Cities After the Fall of Communism: Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and European Identity. Washington, DC, Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, 368 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, index, $65 hardcover;

Makaš, Emily Gunzburger; Conley, Tanja Damljanović, eds. (2009). Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe. London, New York: Routledge, 286 pp., illustrations, bibliography, notes, index, $120 hardcover;

Stanilov, Kiril, ed. (2007). The Post-Socialist City: Urban Form and Space Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after Socialism. Dordrecht: Springer, 490 pp., illustrations, maps, …