- Urban Studies, Architectural History, Soviet Architecture, Post-Soviet Studies, Social Philosophy, Urban Planning, and 30 moreRussian Politics, Russian Studies, советская архитектура, социология города, Политическая философия, постсоветская Россия, постсоветский город, Political Philosophy, Contemporary Art, 20th century Avant-Garde, Avant-Garde, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Modern Architecture, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Utopian Studies, Utopianism, Soviet History, Culture in the Soviet Union, Soviet Visual Culture, The City in Literature and Culture, Human Geography, Narrative and Identity, Urban Geography, Urban Social Geography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Critical Geography, Russian and Soviet art and culture, Intellectual and cultural history, and Cultural History of Russiaedit
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Eastern European Studies, Urban History, Utopian Studies, Urban Planning, and 14 morePostsocialism, Urban Regeneration, Cultural Landscapes, Gentrification, Urban Studies, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Neoliberalism, Urban Tourism, Mass Housing, Social and cultural geography, Mass Housing Development, Post-Socialist City, Neoliberal Urbanism, and Urban Landscape and Planning
Research Interests: Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Urban Politics, Utopian Studies, Urban Planning, and 13 moreEast European studies, Cultural Landscapes, Urban Studies, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Political Geography, Urban And Regional Planning, Urban Tourism, Mass Housing, Architectural Heritage Management and Tourism, Post-Socialist City, Neoliberal Urbanism, Socialist Architecture, and Urban and Cultural Heritage
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Social Geography, Soviet History, Utopian Studies, Gentrification, and 14 moreUrban Studies, Neoliberalism, Urban Sociology, Cultural Historical Geography, Post-Socialism, Mass Housing, Urban Social Geography, Spatial segregation, Soviet Design and Architecture, Urban Memory, Urban Sociology and Social Policy, Post-Socialist City, Urban Gentrification, and Russian and Soviet UrbanHistory
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Social Geography, Urban Geography, Socialist Economics, Cultural Landscapes, and 15 morePost-socialism (Anthropology), Urban Studies, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Post-Soviet Studies, Post-Socialist Societies, Political Geography, Socialism, Post-Socialism, Urban Social Geography, Socialist Realism, Socialist and Post-Socialist Area Studies, Spatial segregation, Urban Political Ecology, Post-Socialist City, and Anthropology of Socialism and Postsocialism
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Social Geography, Urban Geography, Eastern European Studies, Heritage Studies, and 15 moreUrban History, Utopian Studies, Cultural Landscapes, Urban Studies, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Creative Industries, Post-Soviet Studies, Post-Socialist Societies, Political Geography, Urban Social Geography, Bauhaus, Conservation of modernist architecture and townscapes, Creative and Cultural Industries, Radical and Utopian Architecture, and History of Residential Architecture and Urban Planning
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Human Geography, Urban Geography, Russian Studies, Soviet History, and 15 moreCultural Heritage, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Utopian Studies, Urban Planning, Identity (Culture), Post-Soviet Studies, Narrative and Identity, Soviet Visual Culture, Culture in the Soviet Union, Utopianism, Urban Social Geography, The City in Literature and Culture, Soviet Design and Architecture, History of Soviet Architecture, and Post-Soviet Identity in Architecture
Research Interests: Urban Geography, Utopian Studies, Urban Studies, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Urban Social Geography, and 15 moreModern German History, East German History, Polish Art and Architecture, Bauhaus, East Germany, Urban Identity, социальная история, Post-Socialist City, советская архитектура, постсоветская Россия, идентичность, городская история, Архитектура, Германия, and конструктивизм (архитектура)
Research Interests: German History, Postcolonial Studies, Utopian Studies, Urban Studies, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), and 15 morePost-Soviet Studies, First World War, Interwar Period History, Central and Eastern Europe, Bauhaus, Polish Interwar History, Deutscher Werkbund, Urban Narratives, Архитектура, Walter Gropius, Avant-Garde Architecture, Первая мировая война, Central and Eastern European Studies, Центрально-Восточная Европа, and конструктивизм (архитектура)
Dealing with the socialist urban legacy proved to become one of main challenges for the cities of Eastern Europe in the last decades. The fall of socialism found most of the socialist urban areas either as "rejected" heritage or as a sort... more
Dealing with the socialist urban legacy proved to become one of main challenges for the cities of Eastern Europe in the last decades. The fall of socialism found most of the socialist urban areas either as "rejected" heritage or as a sort of "devastated" spaces which had lost their functional meaning, symbolic significance, and any clear narratives. In such conditions, it is particularly important to watch out for those processes, which enable socialist urban legacy to acquire new languages and symbols in order to be included into the current social dynamics. This article explores the potential of the world modernist heritage discourse in giving a new approach to interpreting urban legacy of socialist era. Over the past decade, the sharp increase in the activities around rethinking and revitalization of modernist heritage turned into a global trend. For Eastern Europe modernist legacy appeared to become a certain lens, through which it is possible to explore various visions of the Eastern European urban past within different contexts. The article seeks to reveal how the global discourse of modernist heritage influences current perceptions and attitudes towards the socialist urban legacy in the Eastern European countries, and aims to find out to what extent it facilitates integration of this legacy into changing symbolic contexts.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, Eastern European Studies, Cultural Landscapes, Urban Studies, and 15 moreModernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Memory Studies, Post-Soviet Studies, Post-Socialist Societies, Polish Studies, World Cultural Heritage, Socialist and Post-Socialist Area Studies, Urban Architectural Heritage, Urban Geography, Post-Socialist Transformation, Urban Identity, Post-Socialist City, “Post-Socialist” urban transformations, Nowa Huta, Soviet and Post-soviet Architecture, and Socialist Modernism
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Social Geography, Urban Geography, Eastern European Studies, and 12 moreCultural Landscapes, Urban Studies, Urban Ecology, Post-Soviet Studies, Post-Socialist Societies, Urban Sociology, Urban Transformation, Post-Socialism, Cities, Spatial segregation, Urban social segregation, Urban sociology, and “Post-Socialist” urban transformations
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Russian Studies, Cultural Policy, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, and 15 moreUtopian Studies, Urban Studies, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Creative Industries, Post-Soviet Studies, Post-Socialist Societies, Architectural Heritage, Henri Lefebvre, Creative City, Bauhaus, Urban Architectural Heritage, Post-Socialist City, Revitalization, Socialist City, and Critical Urban and Cultural Theory
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Cultural Heritage, Urban Planning, Ukrainian Studies, Urban Studies, and 14 moreModernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Urbanism, Post-Soviet Studies, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Everyday Life, Urban And Regional Planning, Culture in the Soviet Union, Industrial Architecture, Ukrainian History, Sociology of Architecture, Company Towns, History of Urban Planning, Socialist Architecture, and Radical and Utopian Architecture
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Russian Studies, Cultural Heritage, Utopian Studies, Urban Studies, and 9 moreModernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Post-Soviet Studies, Post-Socialist Societies, Architectural Heritage, 20th century Avant-Garde, Post-Socialist City, “Post-Socialist” urban transformations, Soviet avant-garde, and Socialist City
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Не будет преувеличением сказать, что основной вопрос, связанный с изучением архитектуры советского авангарда сегодня, – это сам факт резко возросшего к ней интереса. Авангардным сооружениям посвящаются многочисленные книги, альбомы и... more
Не будет преувеличением сказать, что основной вопрос, связанный с изучением архитектуры советского авангарда сегодня, – это сам факт резко возросшего к ней интереса. Авангардным сооружениям посвящаются многочисленные книги, альбомы и путеводители, о них снимаются фильмы, судьба этих построек становится предметом обсуждения на множестве конференций, «круглых столов» и общественных слушаний. Еще десять-пятнадцать лет назад интерес к авангарду был по большей части уделом узкого круга специалистов – архитекторов, градостроителей, искусствоведов. Конечно, и тогда многие издания ставили своей целью привлечь к памятникам авангарда внимание широкой общественности, а отдельные группы энтузиастов исследовали заброшенные пространства и районы старой советской застройки в самых различных уголках страны. Однако все эти инициативы, как правило, имели локальный характер и лишь изредка получали общественный резонанс. Сегодня дискуссии вокруг авангарда стали частью публичной риторики, а посвященные ему проекты почти гарантированно привлекают внимание достаточно широкой аудитории. Самое простое и, казалось бы, лежащее на поверхности объяснение такой ситуации – интеллектуальная мода и исследовательский тренд. Ведь в сущности любой исторический и культурный феномен по мере возникновения соответствующей исторической дистанции рано или поздно становится предметом особого интереса, открываясь с новой стороны для одних и переосмысливаясь другими. Но, во-первых, возникновение любой моды всегда чем-то обусловлено. А во-вторых, мода скоротечна. Она неизменно предполагает резкий и, как правило, не слишком продолжительный всплеск внимания и его столь же резкое угасание. Интерес к ранней советской архитектуре не просто наблюдается длительный период – он получает регулярную подпитку, стимулируя появление новых ракурсов и способов рассмотрения. Область изучения архитектурного авангарда постоянно расширяется, и есть ощущение, что потенциал этого роста далеко не исчерпан. Понять причины такого интереса к авангардной архитектуре – значит понять те смыслы и значения, которыми она оказалась наполнена. Ведь очевидно, что постройки авангарда в советский период, в начале 1990-х и сегодня – это совершенно разные здания не только с точки зрения их физического состояния, но прежде всего с точки зрения окружающего их смыслового контекста. Архитектура авангарда отчетливо демонстрирует тот случай, когда способ разговора об архитектуре оказывается не менее важен, чем механизм ее физического сохранения. Новые языки описания сооружений авангарда обнаруживают не просто новые механизмы его символической репрезентации, но в сущности заново открывают эту архитектуру для широкой аудитории. В этой связи крайне важно понять, какие формы разговора об авангардной архитектуре сложились сегодня в публичной риторике, насколько они устойчивы и в каких контекстах
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Russian Studies, Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Art, Social and Cultural Anthropology, and 14 moreUtopian Studies, Soviet Urbanism, Architectural History, Urban Studies, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Creative Industries, Post-Soviet Studies, Architectural Heritage, Russian avant-garde art, 20th century Avant-Garde, Industrial Architecture, Soviet Design and Architecture, Socialist Architecture, and Post-Soviet Urban Transformation
Research Interests: Russian Studies, Architecture, Urban Planning, Urban Studies, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), and 11 moreAvant-Garde, Russian avant-garde art, 20th century Avant-Garde, Slavic Studies, Conservation of modernist architecture and townscapes, Soviet Design and Architecture, Sztuka Współczesna, Miasto, Architekture, Sztuka Awangardowa, and Miasto Postsocjalistyczne
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Research Interests: Russian Studies, Soviet History, Utopian Studies, Urban Planning, Soviet Urbanism, and 15 morePost-Soviet Studies, Post-Socialist Societies, Modern Architecture, 20th century Avant-Garde, Utopia, Soviet Studies, Russian and Soviet History, социалистический город, советская архитектура, Utopian Socialism, Russian and Soviet art and culture, (post)soviet City, индустриальный город, градостроительство, and городские исследования
Despite changes in values and in formal and symbolic structures, real
reform of the Russian political system is hampered by institutional
inertia.
reform of the Russian political system is hampered by institutional
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The article analyses a large-scale urban planning experiment held in the Soviet Union in the 1920s–1930s: the construction of the Uralmash socialist city. It is shown that this avant-garde project, considered a symbol of the era, was... more
The article analyses a large-scale urban planning experiment held in the Soviet Union in the 1920s–1930s: the construction of the Uralmash socialist city. It is shown that this avant-garde project, considered a symbol of the era, was determined by multiple factors and thus represented complex social dynamics. The author argues that the analysis of these dynamics requires new theoretical instruments,
since those extant largely utilise simplified schemes and explanations.
This has meant that the study of Soviet urban planning is usually focused on the search for a certain fundamental principle which can explain all tendencies,challenges, and controversies. Such a principle can be either a subject (e.g. the ‘authority’ or ‘architect-creator’) or a certain universal phenomenon (‘idea’, ‘style’, ‘technological progress’). Each of these categories provides a specific framework which allows the scholar to build an integral picture of the development of Soviet urban planning and give an explanation for architectural fashions. However, such
a view on Soviet architecture is usually narrow and one-dimensional. Moreover, as the case of Uralmash shows, the meaning of these categories is sometimes highly ambiguous. For instance, the notion of ‘power’ does not always mean the existence of a gradually realised strategy or a clear system of regulation. In many cases, the ‘strategy’ was in fact based on a set of situational decisions; furthermore,
certain processes remained beyond any control. Thus considered, if
changes in architectural style had a crucial role for the overall development of Soviet architecture in the 1930s, then it meant nothing more for the architects involved than a simple change in the ‘rules of the game’: it thus had little impact on real building practices. For that reason, a comprehensive analysis of Soviet urban planning requires a critical review of these categories of analysis and the development of a new way to implement them into research.
since those extant largely utilise simplified schemes and explanations.
This has meant that the study of Soviet urban planning is usually focused on the search for a certain fundamental principle which can explain all tendencies,challenges, and controversies. Such a principle can be either a subject (e.g. the ‘authority’ or ‘architect-creator’) or a certain universal phenomenon (‘idea’, ‘style’, ‘technological progress’). Each of these categories provides a specific framework which allows the scholar to build an integral picture of the development of Soviet urban planning and give an explanation for architectural fashions. However, such
a view on Soviet architecture is usually narrow and one-dimensional. Moreover, as the case of Uralmash shows, the meaning of these categories is sometimes highly ambiguous. For instance, the notion of ‘power’ does not always mean the existence of a gradually realised strategy or a clear system of regulation. In many cases, the ‘strategy’ was in fact based on a set of situational decisions; furthermore,
certain processes remained beyond any control. Thus considered, if
changes in architectural style had a crucial role for the overall development of Soviet architecture in the 1930s, then it meant nothing more for the architects involved than a simple change in the ‘rules of the game’: it thus had little impact on real building practices. For that reason, a comprehensive analysis of Soviet urban planning requires a critical review of these categories of analysis and the development of a new way to implement them into research.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Russian Studies, Soviet Urbanism, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Post-Soviet Studies, and 13 morePost-Socialist Societies, Modern Architecture, 20th century Avant-Garde, Industrial Architecture, Soviet Design and Architecture, Soviet Studies, Russian and Soviet History, социалистический город, советская архитектура, конструктивизм, Архитектура, History of Soviet Architecture, and Russian and Soviet UrbanHistory
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Russian Studies, Soviet History, Cultural Heritage, Utopian Studies, and 11 moreModernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Modern Architecture, Lenin, 20th century Avant-Garde, история архитектуры, советская архитектура, Russian and Soviet art and culture, советская культура, Ленин, Social History of Russian and Soviet Art, and Soviet Architecture
The article examines ideological and institutional role of the “greening” policy in the Soviet urban planning practice of 1920-1930s. Relying on the example of the socialist city of Uralmash in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) the author traces... more
The article examines ideological and institutional role of the “greening” policy in the Soviet urban planning practice of 1920-1930s. Relying on the example of the socialist city of Uralmash in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) the author traces how the idea of the “green city” affected the development of the urban settlement in terms of its functional mechanism and symbolic transformation. By analyzing the logic of the Uralmash “green” policy and its main narratives he argues that successful improvement of the post-Soviet green zones depends not so much on the new urban city-planning initiatives as on the new symbols and meanings that could give a clear vision of these spaces in the current social and cultural context.
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Граждане и политические практики в современной России: воспроизводство и трансформация институционального порядка / [С.В. Патрушев (отв. ред.), С.Г. Айвазова, П.В. Панов] – М.: РАПН, Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН), 2011. (Раздел 2.7. Центр и регионы в России: практики взаимодействия)more