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Author Sokołowicz, Mariusz E

Title The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (256 p.)
Series Routledge Research in Architecture Series
Routledge research in architecture.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Modernism, socialism and concrete in CEE countries: A controversial heritage -- Modernism in architecture -- Universal genesis vs CEE uniqueness -- Socialist modernism in architecture as part of the modernization policy in CEE countries -- Concrete in post-war architecture: New possibilities for a new society -- Soc-modernism architecture after socialism: The problem of dissonant heritage -- 2. The interdisciplinary character of heritage value
The concept of value in philosophy and economic thought -- Value in the theory of monuments -- Architectural heritage as an urban common good -- Architectural heritage as a territorial capital -- Heritage surroundings and its value from the societal and spatial order perspective -- 3. Towards a methodology of valuating ambiguous heritage -- The review of research on valuating soc-modernist architecture -- Ambiguous heritage and architecture -- The classification of heritage valuation methods -- Cost-benefit analysis as a response to the complexity of heritage development
Warsaw Ochota railway station, Poland -- Valuating socmodernism in the daily life -- 4. The protection of ambiguous legacy in CEE countries: Case studies -- The railway station in Katowice, Poland -- From destruction to value discourse -- Historical background and evolution of object's functions -- Dominant value and impact of the surroundings -- Socio-economic embeddedness and local uniqueness -- The Buzludzha Monument, Bulgaria -- The struggle of soc-modernism heritage with nature and political controversies -- Historical background and evolution of object's functions
Dominant value and impact of the surroundings -- Socio-economic embeddedness and local uniqueness -- Central post office in Skopje -- The memory of the socialist reconstruction in the process of oblivion -- Historical background and evolution of object's functions -- Dominant value and impact of the surroundings -- Socio-economic embeddedness and local uniqueness -- Palace of concerts and sports in Vilnius, Lithuania -- Sports utility vs difficult history and dissonant heritage -- Historical background and evolution of object's functions -- Dominant value and impact of the surroundings
Socio-economic embeddedness and local uniqueness -- Republic Square in Ljubljana, Slovenia -- The beginnings of statehood and every day of the capital's civic life -- Historical background and evolution of object's functions -- Dominant value and impact of the surroundings -- Socio-economic embeddedness and local uniqueness -- Summary -- References -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Architecture and society-Europe, Central
Architecture and society-Europe, Eastern
Historic preservation-Social aspects-Europe, Central
Historic preservation-Social aspects-Europe, Eastern
Socialist modernism (Architecture)-Public opinion
Form Electronic book
Author Nowakowska, Aleksandra
Ciarkowski, Błażej
ISBN 9781000875515
1000875512