Identity in Post-Socialist Public Space: Urban Architecture in Kiev, Moscow, Berlin, and Warsaw

by Bohdan Cherkes, Józef Hernik

Overview

This book is a comparative analysis of the architecture of central public spaces of capital cities in Central and Eastern Europe during the period of their authoritarian and post-authoritarian development.

It demonstrates that national identity transformations cause structural changes in urban public spaces, and theorises identity and national identity within urban planning in order to explain the influence of historical, cultural, mental, social as well as ideological and political conditions on the processes of shaping and perceiving the architecture of public space. The book addresses the process of shaping and restructuring historic centres of European capital cities of Kiev, Moscow, Berlin, and Warsaw, which developed under authoritarian regime conditions throughout the 20th century and were characterised by ideological determinism and the influence of state ideology and politics on the architecture of public spaces.

The book will be useful for urban planners, architects, land management specialists, art historians, political scientists, and readers interested in the theory and history of cities, the fundamentals of urban planning and architecture, and the planning of cities and public spaces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032062587
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2023
Series:	Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bohdan Cherkes, Ph.D., Eng. of architecture, is full Professor in the Department of Land Management and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, at the University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland, and Dean of the Faculty for Architecture and Design at the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine.

Józef Hernik, Ph.D., Eng., full Professor, is a researcher in the Department of Land Management and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, at the University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Theoretical premises for defining the concept of identity in urban planning and architecture; 2. Public space transformation in the centre of Kiev, and searching for national identity; 3. National identity in the architecture of the public space in the centre of Moscow; 4. An urban planning version of the transformation of Berlin city centre’s public space and identity in the 20th century; 5. The identity of public space: trends and regularities of development