Murawski, G and Bach, J (Eds).
(2020)
Re-Centring the City: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity.
[Book].
Fringe.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today and tomorrow? Re-Centring the City zooms in on these questions, taking as its point of departure the experience of Eurasian socialist cities, where twentieth-century high modernity arguably saw its most radical and furthest-reaching realisation. It frames the experience of global high modernity (and its unravelling) through the eyes of the socialist city, rather than the other way around: instead of explaining Warsaw or Moscow through the prism of Paris or New York, it refracts London, Mexico City and Chennai through the lens of Kyiv, Simferopol and the former Polish shtetls. This transdisciplinary volume re-centres the experiences of the ‘Global East’, and thereby our understanding of world urbanism, by shedding light on some of the still-extant (and often disavowed) forms of ‘zombie’ centrality, hierarchy and violence that pervade and shape our contemporary urban experience.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Re-Centring the City: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787354111 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787354111 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354111 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Contributors, 2020 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2020 This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Bach, J. and Murawski, M. (eds.). 2020. Re-Centring the City: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity. London: UCL Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/ 111.9781787354111 Further details about Creative Commons licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons license, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | political science, urban studies, architecture, socialism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089953 |
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