The Post Socialist City: Continuity and Change in Urban Space and Imagery

Introduction: The Post - Socialist City Continuity and Change in Urban Space and Imagery by Marina Dmitrieva, Alfrun Kliems p.6, 1. Theoretical Concepts: Representations and Images of "Recent History” The Transition of Post - Socialist Landscape Icons p.16, Mariusz Czepczyński p.16, Towards Banalization? Trans - Forming the Legacies of the Post - Soclalist City by Lydia Coudroy De Lille, Miléna Guest p.34, A Cumbersome Heritage: Political Monuments and Buildings of the GDR in Reunited Germany by Arnold Bartetzky p.52, 2. Artistic Realizations: Urban “Truths" Artistic Intervention in Post - Socialist Space by Cynthia Imogen Hammond p.68, Screening the Post - Soviet Metropolis Representations of Urbanity in Contemporary Russian Cinema by Eva Binder p.86, The Golden City and the Golden Shot Images from Prague After the Velvet Revolution by Alfrun Kiems p.104, 3. Discursive Recodings: Post - Totalitarian and Post - Colonial Experiences the Palace of Culture and Science and Defilad Square in Warsaw Małgorzata Omilanowska p.120, Cultural Policy as the Politics of History Independence Square in Kiev by Wilfried Jilge 140, The Presence of the Recent Past: Difficult Transformations of a "Paradigmatic Socialist City": Dunaujváros by Béla Kerékgyártó p.156, Projected Happiness: Old Myths and new Ambitions in a Bucharest Neighborhood by Carmen Popescu p.170, Bucharest as a Battleground, 1989 – 2009 by Augustin Ioan p.196, 4. Economic Conditions: Turbo Urbanism in Prishtina by Kai Vockler p.210, Astana, Almaty, and Aktau Architectural Experiments in the Steppes of Kazakhstan by Philipp Meuser p.230, Post - Socialist or Postmodernist? The Search for a New Urbanism in Armenia by Tigran Harutyunian p.248