Eastern Block Stories: Visualising Housing Estates from Post-socialist Cities

Gurgenidze, Tinatin (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3869221186 / ISBN 13: 9783869221182

Verlag: Dom Pub, 2022

Beschreibung

144 pages. 8.75x8.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers __3869221186

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Eastern Block Stories: Visualising Housing Estates from Post-socialist Cities
• Verlag: Dom Pub
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3869221186
• ISBN-13: 9783869221182
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Brand New
• Gewicht: 0,62 Kilogramm

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

The title Eastern Block Stories features a dozen of articles and over 60 unique hand-picked images about mass housing estates in former communist states. This book aims to address the blind spots to take a closer look at the major challenges for post-socialist housing estates today and imagine what could be their future. Besides stories from Georgia, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Germany unique photographic material which covers cases from more than ten countries is included. The major take of this book is to unveil the diversity of the Eastern blocks alive and the richness of their urban context besides a stigmatizing and alienating gaze. With contributions by Carola S. Neugebauer, Romea Muryń, Kuba Snopek, Dimitrij Zadorin, Lubov Davidkina, Nataliia Mysak, Gigi Shukakidze, Paulina Paga, Maria Melnikova, Aleksandra Katasonova, llyas Kulbarisov, David Sichinava and, Alexander Novikov.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tinatin Gurgenidze lives and works in Berlin. Tinatin is the co-founder and artistic director of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial. Since 2019 Tinatin works at the Dekabristen e.V. in Berlin and coordinated the project ACT UP 'Activating Urban Periphery in eastern Europe'.