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050 00 HX520|b.H38 2016 
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100 1  Hatherley, Owen,|eauthor. 
245 10 Landscapes of communism :|ba history through buildings /
       |cOwen Hatherley. 
263    1603 
264  1 New York :|bThe New Press,|c2016. 
264  4 |c©2015 
300    613 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    "When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade 
       cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and 
       creating sweeping boulevards and vast, epic housing 
       estates in an emphatic declaration of a noncapitalist 
       idea. The regimes that built them are now dead and long 
       gone, but from Warsaw to Berlin, Moscow to 
       postrevolutionary Kiev, the buildings remain inhabited, 
       populated by people whose lives were scattered by the 
       collapse of communism. Landscapes of Communism is a 
       journey of historical discovery, plunging us into the lost
       world of socialist architecture. Recalling the work of 
       W.G. Sebald and Rebecca Solnit, Owen Hatherley, a 
       brilliant, witty, young urban critic shows how power was 
       wielded in these societies by tracing the sharp, sudden 
       zigzags of official communist architectural style: the 
       superstitious despotic rococo of high Stalinism, with its 
       jingoistic memorials, palaces, and secret policemen's 
       castles; East Germany's obsession with prefabricated 
       concrete panels; and the metro systems of Moscow and 
       Prague, a spectacular vindication of public space that 
       went further than any avant-garde ever dared. Throughout 
       his journeys across the former Soviet empire, Hatherley 
       asks what, if anything, can be reclaimed from the ruins of
       Communism--what residue can inform our contemporary ideas 
       of urban life? "--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Communism and architecture|zEurope, Eastern|xHistory. 
650  7 ARCHITECTURE|xHistory|xContemporary (1945- )|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY|zEurope|xFormer Soviet Republics.|2bisacsh 
650  7 POLITICAL SCIENCE|xPolitical Ideologies|xCommunism & 
       Socialism.|2bisacsh 
650  7 ARCHITECTURE|xCriticism.|2bisacsh 
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