Publication details
About the trouble to define the socialist urban planning
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Popularization text |
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| Description | This article searches to clarify the basic characteristics of the socialist urban planning. First, it proposes an overview of such main traits of planning as they were recognized by the scholars who have studied (post)socialist European cities. Then, using the example of the city of Brno, Czech Republic, and analyzing three planning concepts prepared for this city between 1951 and 1973, it tries to shed more light on the actual form that the urban planning in a socialist country could take. The conclusions point out the similarities as well as differences between the three planning concepts prepared for a single city in the course of 30 years and eventually pose the question whether there was any such thing as a homogeneous ‘socialist urban planning’ – in the case of the city of Brno and in general. |