Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
The book shows how in the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world and how their collaboration reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Łukasz Stanek describes how local authorities and professionals in these cities drew on Soviet prefabrication systems, Hungarian and Polish planning methods, Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern Europe. He explores how the socialist development path was adapted to tropical conditions in Ghana in the 1960s, and how Eastern European architectural traditions were given new life in 1970s Nigeria. He looks at how the differences between socialist foreign trade and the emerging global construction market were exploited in the Middle East in the closing decades of the Cold War. Stanek demonstrates how these and other practices of global cooperation by socialist countries‑what he calls socialist worldmaking‑left their enduring mark on urban landscapes in the postcolonial world.
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Architecture, Africa, Near East, Eastern Europe, Globalization, 20th‑century history, Modernism, Socialism, Urban studies
Princeton, New Jersey
2020
358 pages
9780691168708
Available on request
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