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Iron curtains : gates, suburbs, and privatization of space in the post-socialist city
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- Creator
- Sonia A. Hirt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley & Sons, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1444338277, 9781444338270, 9781444338263, 9781118295946, 9781118295953, 1118295927, 1444338269, 1118295951, 9781280599101, 1118295943, 9781118295922, 1280599103
- OCLC
- ocn760068651, ocn778448461
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-219) and index.
- Introduction -- Public, private, privatism -- The post-socialist city -- Post-modern urbanism revisited -- Sofia : wither the socialist city -- The ninth ring: suburbanizing Sofia -- Iron curtains I: gated homes -- Iron curtains II: gated complexes -- Architecture of disunity -- Possibilities -- Figures and tables -- Appendix -- References -- Notes
Subjects
- City planning -- Former communist countries.
- City planning -- Europe, Eastern.
- Property -- Former communist countries.
- Property -- Europe, Eastern.
- Gated communities -- Former communist countries.
- Gated communities -- Europe, Eastern.
- Equality -- Europe, Eastern.
- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 21st century.