Thinking relationally about socialist cities : cross-border connections in Czechoslovak post-war urban planning and housing construction

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F21%3A00119175" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/21:00119175 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02665433.2020.1844042" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02665433.2020.1844042</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2020.1844042" target="_blank" >10.1080/02665433.2020.1844042</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Thinking relationally about socialist cities : cross-border connections in Czechoslovak post-war urban planning and housing construction

Original language description

This article makes a case for a relational approach to studying the history of ‘socialist cities’ in Europe as inherently interconnected with various other places through transnational links. It attempts to contribute to historians’ debates about the socialist city and to interlink them with the project of developing a ‘global urban studies’. To do so, it brings several examples from the history of urban planning and urban development in post-war Czechoslovakia which challenge academic representations of socialist cities as specific and disconnected from places across the Iron Curtain. First, based on a review of contemporary professional literature in urban planning and architecture, the article points out some of the channels through which knowledge about and from geographically or ideologically distant places, including the ‘Western’ world, was available to Czechoslovak experts, and, especially, how this knowledge has been reflected in their own debates about housing construction and urban development in Czechoslovakia. Second, one palpable example of exchanges across the borders of the then-divided Europe is depicted through the transnational story of wooden prefabricated houses. So called Finnish houses were produced in Finland, yet they became an integral part of several cities and towns in socialist Czechoslovakia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50702 - Urban studies (planning and development)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP404%2F12%2F2531" target="_blank" >GAP404/12/2531: Collective memory and the transformation of urban space</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Planning Perspectives

ISSN

0266-5433

e-ISSN

1466-4518

Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

667-687

UT code for WoS article

000590325600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85096135475