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The Afterlife of Utopia
Urban Renewal in Germany's Model Socialist City
Verlag:
Cornell University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 634ZYV7
EAN: 9781501785115
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3
Zustellung: Di, 06.10.2026
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Beschreibung
In. The Afterlife of Utopia. , Samantha Maurer Fox traces the transformation of Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany's first planned socialist city, from a Cold War showcase to a paragon of sustainable shrinkage. Founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, the city was designed to embody socialist ideals. After German reunification, Eisenhüttenstadt lost over half its population, shifting from a model city at the center of the Eastern Bloc to a shrinking city on the nation's periphery. Samantha Maurer Fox portrays Eisenhüttenstadt's story as reinvention rather than decline. Today, its restored center is Europe's largest protected historical site, reshaped by extensive demolition and renewal projects. Fox shows how these initiatives revived the city's original collectivist ideals, creatively reclaiming socialist heritage through an urban strategy unmatched in late industrial Europe. The Afterlife of Utopia. explores what happens when grand ideological experiments outlive the regimes that built them, challenging assumptions about resilience, progress, and urban futurity.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Samantha Maurer Fox
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 246