Introduction: modernism and the (post-)socialist city

Abstract: “Post-modernism” and “post-socialism” are two frames that have been widely applied to account for urban changes over the past decades. It is a common statement to consider socialist urbanism as the pivotal embodiment of modernist thinking. The transformation to post-socialism consequentially appears as an instance of post-modernization. This overview article challenges such identification, arguing that modernist endeavours and the experience of the modern have been more diverse and complex than such periodization imply. In the present paper, we want to make the distinction between a narrow and broad conception of modernism. In the first part, we begin by discussing the “high modernist” approach, often conflated with modernism in toto. In such a narrow understanding, “modernism” amounts to a particular style in architecture and approach in urban planning and governance. Next, we present a broad conception of modernism as a cultural response to the experience of modernity and the yea

Weitere Titel
Einführung: Modernismus und die (post)sozialistische Stadt
Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet
In: Europa Regional ; 22.2014 (2015) 1-2 ; 3-12

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2015
Urheber
Kip, Markus
Sgibnev, Wladimir

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-456910
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Beteiligte

  • Kip, Markus
  • Sgibnev, Wladimir

Entstanden

  • 2015

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