Identity in Post-Socialist Public Space

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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