The third conference of the Second World Urbanity project “Living Cities of the Second World” will be held in St. Petersburg (Russia) on February 27-28, 2015! Bart Goldhoorn, the architect and editor of the journal Project Russia will give a keynote … Continue reading
I’m quite thankful for this discussion, which I think is important and which invites reflection on my own work in ways that, I hope, will be productive for others. In conducting research for my book, Stalinist City Planning: Professionals, Performance, … Continue reading
The socialist version of the master plan is the general’nyi plan, or general plan (GenPlan for short). It is important to insist on terminology here. Socialist general plans—and the intimated processes required to instantiate them—differ measurably from so-called capitalist master … Continue reading
In the course of exploring the planning and architecture of any given city, scholars are often eager to reproduce an image of its Master Plan, if one is available. Such a document immediately offers the scholar’s audience a snapshot, bird’s-eye abstraction of … Continue reading
The Black Sea in the Socialist World 6 & 7 February 2015 Birkbeck College, University of London Conference Programme Supported by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, The Wellcome Trust (Small Grant in the Humanities), The Society for the … Continue reading
