• Architecture in global socialism[electronic resource] :Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 724.6
    書名/作者: Architecture in global socialism : Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War // Łukasz Stanek.
    作者: Stanek, Łukasz.
    出版者: Princeton : : Princeton University Press,, c2020.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (vii, 357 p.) : : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
    標題: Architecture, Modern - 20th century.
    標題: Architecture - Europe, Eastern.
    標題: Architecture - Africa, West.
    標題: Architecture - Middle East.
    標題: Socialist realism and architecture.
    ISBN: 9780691194554
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    摘要、提要註: In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and contractors 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. Lukasz 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 East 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 Featuring an extensive collection of previously unpublished images, Architecture in Global Socialism draws on original archival research in sixteen countries and a wealth of in-depth interviews.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.
    電子資源: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691194554
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