Monu 25 Independent Urbanism

Description

The various phenomena impacting cities of countries that have become newly independent is the focus of this issue. It examines, for instance, the remodelling of Skopje, Macedonia, according to an image of the city that never existed as such, as well as the major struggles cities face in finding their new identity, as seen in Prishtina, Kosovo. In an interview with Bart Lootsma, Dijana Vučinić describes how preserving identity within cultures that desire to join the EU, such as Montenegro, is one of their biggest challenges. A photo essay by Arnis Balcus expands on how public monuments and spaces stoke controversial issues and collective traumas, and yet the dreams of a more hopeful younger generation persist in the series by Julia Autz.

CONTENTS

• What Ever Happened to Skopje? by Jasna Mariotti
• Capital City-Making by Gruia Badescu
• A Translocal Capital? Prishtina by Kai Vöckler and Jonas König
• Urban Development in Belgrade: The Politics of the New Urban by Alexander Kleibrink
• Victory Park by Arnis Balcus
• On the Condition of Post-(communist) Urbanism and Urban Public Squares in Lithuania by Tomas Grunskis
• …Of the New Now by Milda Paceviciute and Burak Pak
• Pink Flamingos and Muscular Men – Interview with Bart Lootsma and Dijana Vucinic by Bernd Upmeyer
• The Project of the Post-industrial Landscape of Solana Ulcinj by Marco Scarpinato and Lucia Pierro
• Infrastructure of Independence by Martynas Mankus
• Forming Identity Across Boundaries by Thomas Cole
• The Unfinished by Julien Lombardi
• Terror and the Miracle – Taiwanese Dreams by Florence Twu
• Decentralize, Desecularize, and Deregulate by Suzanne Harris-Brandts
• Enclaves of Independence by Joseph Godlewski
• The Taxi Rank and the Mega Mall by Claire Lubell
• Strategies for a Newfound Freedom – Interview with Gvido Princis by Bernd Upmeyer
• The Potential of Weak Urbanism by Sandra Parvu
• Transnistria by Julia Autz

128 pages, ills colour & bw / 20 x 27 cm / English