Author: Carol Weiss LewisPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Soviet Urban Management, with Comparisons to the United States
Author: Carol Weiss LewisPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Soviet Urban Management
Author: Carol Weiss LewisPublisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN: 9780275903817
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Contemporary Soviet City
Author: Henry W. MortonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315495929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society. Three stories have been added to the original edition.
Housing and Urban Development in the USSR
Author: Gregory D. AndruszPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791494977
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This study of housing and the urban environment in a socialist society sheds light on the discrepancy between plan and reality. It investigates the sources and consequences of the problem and shows how the U.S.S.R. has attempted to find solutions. Following a general background and overview section, the book deals with the construction, control, and use of buildings in Soviet cities. It then investigates the types of housing considered to be most appropriate for today's Russian urbanite. Focusing on housing sites, it shows the reality of the housing situation in the U.S.S.R. and uncovers spatial patterns of social segregation in Soviet urban development. The question of high- and low-rise housing for workers is also discussed. Andrusz shows how today's Soviet society has evolved away from certain patterns created by the architects of the Revolution. New norms, values, and demands—particularly in the visible form of a more privatized lifestyle: the consumer-oriented, car-ownership-seeking, nuclear family with segregated role playing—have resulted in new dwelling needs. The book is enriched with tables, notes and references, and a useful bibliography.
Strengthening Urban Management
Author: Thomas L. BlairPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146847586X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Managing cities and providing housing, essential infra structure and public services in an era of great pressures on municipal resources are challenging domestic issues in all parts of the world. Increasingly, city administrators and local government authorities in developing countries and western industrial nations are seeking to share experiences and exchange information in a search for solutions. This highly informative volume attempts to meet this critical need and to aid development cooperation among municipalities. Strengthening Urban Management presents the practical problems and approaches to the provision of housing, trans portation, and the mobilization of the requisite finance and manpower for local government in contrasting urban situ ations. It draws upon selected papers contributed to inter national meetings and world congresses sponsored by the International Union of Local Authorities, The Hague, Netherlands. Subject areas are illustrated in city examples given by mayors, administrators and planners from Lusaka, Harare, Nairobi, Osaka. Jakarta. Bandung. Vienna, Stockholm, Caracas, and Rio de Janeiro. Theme introductions and contributions from leading international and national agencies highlight Hie important role and grave difficulties facing local government in urban management and planning.
Spatial Revolution
Author: Christina E. CrawfordPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501759213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Spatial Revolution is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, built during the first fifteen years of the Soviet project and followed attentively worldwide after the collapse of capitalist markets in 1929. Among the revelations provided by Christina E. Crawford is the degree to which outside experts participated in the construction of the Soviet industrial complex, while facing difficult topographies, near-impossible deadlines, and inchoate theories of socialist space-making. Crawford describes how early Soviet architecture and planning activities were kinetic and negotiated and how questions about the proper distribution of people and industry under socialism were posed and refined through the construction of brick and mortar, steel and concrete projects, living laboratories that tested alternative spatial models. As a result, Spatial Revolution answers important questions of how the first Soviet industrialization drive was a catalyst for construction of thousands of new enterprises on remote sites across the Eurasian continent, an effort that spread to far-flung sites in other socialist states—and capitalist welfare states—for decades to follow. Thanks to generous funding from Emory University and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Comparisons of the United States and Soviet Economies
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Comparisons of the United States and Soviet Economies, Supplemental Statement of Costs and Benefits to the Soviet Union of Its Bloc and Pact System
Author: United States. Congress. Economic Joint CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Housing and Planning References
Author: Local Government in the Soviet Union
Author: Cameron RossPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040007376
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Local Government in the Soviet Union (1987) analyses the Soviet Union’s limited success in improving local government between in the 1960s to 1980s, as the country made a drive toward centralized policy control. It examines the institutional framework and changes in crucial policy areas, and argues that a fragmented vertical power structure involving the three bureaucracies of Party, ministries and the city and regional soviets was unproductive. It shows how group interests moulded and adapted policies and how the Party’s initiative in centralizing policy was thwarted. It also outlines the significance of the industrial base in determining local budgets and the provision of amenities, as opposed to overtly political factors.