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Designing Tito's Capital : Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism in Belgrade.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture Politics and the Built Environment SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822979548
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Designing Tito's CapitalDDC classification:
  • 307.1/216094971
LOC classification:
  • HT169
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Modernist Functionalist Planning in Global Context -- Chapter 2. A Blueprint for Modernity -- Chapter 3. The Lost Decade and the Dawn of a New Era -- Chapter 4. New Belgrade, Capital of Yugoslav Modernity -- Chapter 5. Planning Undone: "Wild" Construction and the Market Reforms -- Chapter 6. Modernism under Fire: The Changing Attitudes of Social Scientists and Urban Designers in 1960s Yugoslavia -- Chapter 7. Modernity Redefined: The 1972 Master Plan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The devastation of World War II left the Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade in ruins. Communist Party leader Josip Broz Tito saw this as a golden opportunity to recreate the city through his vision of socialism. In Designing Tito's Capital, Brigitte Le Normand analyzes the unprecedented planning process called for by the new leader, and the determination of planners to create an urban environment that would benefit all citizens.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Modernist Functionalist Planning in Global Context -- Chapter 2. A Blueprint for Modernity -- Chapter 3. The Lost Decade and the Dawn of a New Era -- Chapter 4. New Belgrade, Capital of Yugoslav Modernity -- Chapter 5. Planning Undone: "Wild" Construction and the Market Reforms -- Chapter 6. Modernism under Fire: The Changing Attitudes of Social Scientists and Urban Designers in 1960s Yugoslavia -- Chapter 7. Modernity Redefined: The 1972 Master Plan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The devastation of World War II left the Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade in ruins. Communist Party leader Josip Broz Tito saw this as a golden opportunity to recreate the city through his vision of socialism. In Designing Tito's Capital, Brigitte Le Normand analyzes the unprecedented planning process called for by the new leader, and the determination of planners to create an urban environment that would benefit all citizens.

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