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Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City

ISBN: 978-1-118-29595-3
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288 pages
February 2012, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Illustrations and Tables viii

Series Editors’ Preface xi

Acknowledgements xii

1 Introduction 1

2 Public, Private, Privatism 14

3 The Post-socialist City 34

4 Post-modern Urbanism Revisited 60

5 Sofia: Wither the Socialist City 81

6 The Ninth Ring: Suburbanizing Sofia 105

7 Iron Curtains I: Gated Homes 131

8 Iron Curtains II: Gated Complexes 149

9 Architecture of Disunity 170

10 Possibilities 191

References 198

Index 220