Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms

Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective

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Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective

Edited by Lisa B.W. Drummond and Douglas Young
2020, 336 p.
ISBN 9781442632530

Emmanuelle PEYVEL contributed to the book edited by L. Drummond and D. Young, Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms : Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective, with the chapter written with Marie GIBERT entitled "The Reshaping of Post-Socialist Hồ Chí Minh City : Leisure Practices and Social Control".

Socialist cities have special qualities which endure in particular, subtle, and often under-theorized ways. This book engages with socialism on a global scale, as well as the variety of socialist urbanisms and post-socialist urbanisms, and the range of ways in which globalization intersects with changes in socialist and post-socialist cities.

Offering a unique international comparative focus, the book’s fourteen case studies from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa are grouped under three main themes : housing experiences and life trajectories, planning and architecture, and governance and social order. Featuring contributors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and research foci, Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms brings together a collection of essays on cities that are often overlooked in mainstream urban studies.

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