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9781444338270
Publisher
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John Wiley & Sons
Subject
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Encyclopaedias & Reference Works
Binding
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Hardcover
Year
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2012
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Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe.Features original data, illustrations, and theory on the process of privatization of resources in societies undergoing fundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those in Eastern EuropeRepresents the sole in-depth monograph on contemporary urbanism in Southeast EuropeMakes a broader statement on issues of urbanism in Europe and other parts of the world while highlighting the complex connections between cultures and cities
Author Biography
Sonia Hirt is Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at the School of Public and International Affairs Studies at Virginia Tech, and was recently Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Hirt is the author of about 40 publications on urban forms and planning and is co-author of Twenty Years of Transition: The Evolution of Urban Planning in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, 1989-2009 (2009; with Kiril Stanilov).
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