Stalinist City Planning : Professionals, Performance, and Power

Heather DeHaan

ISBN 10: 1442645342 / ISBN 13: 9781442645349

Published by University Of Toronto Press Mai 2013, 2013

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Neuware - Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. DeHaan focuses her study on 1930s Nizhnii Novgorod, where planners struggled to accommodate the expectations of a Stalinizing state without sacrificing professional authority and power. Bridging institutional and cultural history, the book brings together a variety of elements of socialism as enacted by planners on a competitive urban stage, such as scientific debate, the crafting of symbolic landscapes, and state campaigns for the development of cultured cities and people. By examining how planners and other urban inhabitants experienced, lived, and struggled with socialism and Stalinism, DeHaan offers readers a much broader, more complex picture of planning and planners than has been revealed to date.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stalinist City Planning : Professionals, Performance, and Power
• Publisher: University Of Toronto Press Mai 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442645342
• ISBN 13: 9781442645349
• Binding: Buch
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 155H x 23D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 544 grams

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Synopsis

Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. DeHaan focuses her study on 1930s Nizhnii Novgorod, where planners struggled to accommodate the expectations of a Stalinizing state without sacrificing professional authority and power.

Bridging institutional and cultural history, the book brings together a variety of elements of socialism as enacted by planners on a competitive urban stage, such as scientific debate, the crafting of symbolic landscapes, and state campaigns for the development of cultured cities and people. By examining how planners and other urban inhabitants experienced, lived, and struggled with socialism and Stalinism, DeHaan offers readers a much broader, more complex picture of planning and planners than has been revealed to date.

About the Author

Heather D. DeHaan is an associate professor in the Department of History at Binghamton University.