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Inventing a Soviet Countryside

|9780822961758|State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917–1929| Following the largest peasant revolution in history, Russia’s urban-based Bolshevik regime was faced with a monumental task: to peacefully “modernize” and

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Between Garden and City

…a larger design environment, Canneel expanded the scale of his interventions to urban greening and the planning of cities. In 1938, Canneel joined forces with Christopher Tunnard to found the…

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Metropolitan Belgrade

…entertainment industry during the interwar years. | Jovana Babović| Russian and East European Studies| History / Europe / Eastern Social Science / Popular Culture Social Science / Sociology / Urban

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Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin

…the built environment. | Emily Pugh| Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment| Architecture / Criticism Architecture / General Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning History / Europe / Germany…

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A Promising Past

…a modernization and urban renewal project. He classifies these fictions into two types: modeling and remodeling. Modeling fictions reflect an inaugural, festive, utopian nature and herald a better future that…

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