PropertyValue
?:about
?:abstract
  • The construction of so-called “socialist cities” (sotsgorods), implemented in the USSR in the 1920 and 1930s, proved to become one of the most radical and large-scale urban experiments realized in the 20th century. That project was aimed at creating a completely new urban space which embodied a concept of an ideal social living and utopian dream of the “cities of the future”. The fall of socialism turned all “socialist cities” into “devastated” spaces which had lost their functional meaning, symbolic significance and any clear narratives. This article tries to reveal how these “socialist cities” have been integrated into the current urban reality and symbolic contexts of the post-Soviet period. It seeks to explore whether spaces of the former “socialist cities” are able today to acquire any new symbolical meanings replacing previous ones and, if so, how these meanings are reproduced under current conditions. The author focuses on the case of the Uralmash district in Yekaterinburg (Russia) which was established in the 1930s as exemplary socialist city and became one of the fast-growing urban settlements in the USSR. The paper analyses the symbolic representations of the Uralmash district in the post-Soviet period and, traces the shifts of major narratives which have outlined new symbolic boundaries of this urban area in the last decades. It is claimed that transformation and changes of “socialist cities” under post-Soviet conditions depend not only on the new urban city-planning initiatives, but also on the new symbols and meanings that give a clear vision of these spaces in current social and cultural contexts. (xsd:string)
?:contributor
?:dateModified
  • 2018 (xsd:gyear)
?:datePublished
  • 2018 (xsd:gyear)
?:duplicate
?:hasFulltext
  • true (xsd:boolean)
is ?:hasPart of
?:inLanguage
  • en (xsd:string)
?:isPartOf
?:issn
  • 0943-7142 ()
?:issueNumber
  • 2 (xsd:string)
?:linksURN
is ?:mainEntity of
?:name
  • "Socialist cities" under post-Soviet conditions: symbolic changes and new ways of representation (xsd:string)
?:provider
?:publicationType
  • Zeitschriftenartikel (xsd:string)
  • journal_article (en)
?:sourceInfo
  • GESIS-SSOAR (xsd:string)
  • In: Europa Regional, 25.2017, 2018, 2, 30-44 (xsd:string)
rdf:type
?:url
?:urn
  • urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-59091-8 ()
?:volumeNumber
  • 25.2017 (xsd:string)