Eastern Block Stories: Visualising Housing Estates from Post-Socialist Cities (Grundlagen/Basics) - Softcover

 
9783869221182: Eastern Block Stories: Visualising Housing Estates from Post-Socialist Cities (Grundlagen/Basics)

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The title "Eastern Block Stories" features a dozen of articles and over 60 unique hand-picked images about mass housing estates in former communist states. This book aims to address the blind spots to take a closer look at the major challenges for post-socialist housing estates today and imagine what could be their future. Besides stories from Georgia, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Germany unique photographic material which covers cases from more than ten countries is included. The major take of this book is to unveil the diversity of the Eastern blocks alive and the richness of their urban context besides a stigmatizing and alienating gaze.

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Tinatin Gurgenidze lives and works in Berlin. He is the co-founder and artistic director of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial. Since 2019 Tinatin works at the Dekabristen e.V. in Berlin and coordinated the project ACT UP "Activating Urban Periphery in eastern Europe".

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