Sökning: "post-Soviet city"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden post-Soviet city.

  1. 1. Everyday life in avant-garde housing estates : A phenomenology of post-Soviet Moscow

    Författare :Alexander Kalyukin; Irene Molina; Tom Mels; Tim Cresswell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; built environment; housing; everyday life; avant-garde architecture; humanistic geography; phenomenology; Henri Lefebvre; post-Soviet city; Moscow; Russia; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the social meaning and function of what is known as avant-garde, or constructivist, housing estates located in central Moscow. Five of these estates – Budenovsky, Dubrovka, Khavsko-Shabolovsky, Nizhnyaya Presnya and Usachevka – comprise the empirical foci of the study. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Studies in the Transformation of Post-Soviet Cities : Case Studies from Kazakhstan

    Författare :Michael Gentile; Jan Öhman; Örjan Sjöberg; Thomas Lundén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; Kazakhstan; former Soviet Union; urbanisation; survey method; post-Soviet cities; residential preferences; socio-spatial differentiation; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : Since the demise of central planning, post-Soviet cities have found themselves operating in a radically different economic climate. Contrary to the situation during the Soviet époque, market relations and the urban economy's adjustment thereto constitute the reality which urbanites face in their daily lives. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Drömmen om den nya staden : Stadsförnyelse i det postsovjetiska Riga

    Författare :Jonas Lindström; Sven E.O. Hort; Apostolis Papakostas; Mats Franzén; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Post-Soviet Riga; urban renewal; urban development; urban phantasmagorias; urban postperestroika; de-Sovietization; globalization; Lettification; social temporalization; Sociology; sociologi; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to shed light on Post-Soviet urban renewal and people’s perceptions of changes that recently occurred in both the city of Riga and Latvian society more generally since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. More specifically, this study examines how these perceptions are manifest in Riga’s ongoing renewal. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Nation’s Brightest and Noblest : Narrative Identity and Empowering Accounts of theUkrainian Intelligentsia in Post-1991 L’viv

    Författare :Eleonora Narvselius; Erik Olsson; Irina Sandomirskaja; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Intelligentsia; intellectuals; narrative identities; post-Soviet Ukraine; cultural authority; national projects; Intelligentia; de intellektuella; postsovjetiska Ukraina; berättade identiteter; kulturell auktoritet; nationella projekt; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Sammanfattning : This study brings into focus the issue of reproduction and transformation ofcultural authority in the so-called post-Soviet context. It seeks to examine howintelligentsia may be presented and what empowering narratives it may articulatein a concrete locality, namely, in the post-1991 West Ukrainian city of L’viv. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Meeting-places of Transformation : Urban Identity, Spatial Representations and Local Politics in St Petersburg, Russia

    Författare :Thomas Borén; Bo Lenntorp; Thomas Lundén; Jussi Jauhiainen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Time-space; lifeworld; Hägerstrand; Habermas; Lotman; participant observation; post-Soviet transformation; time-geography; cultural geography; cultural semiotics; urban studies; everyday life; Soviet cartography; local self-government; Ligovo; Uritsk; Krasnosel skii raion.; Other earth sciences; Övrig geovetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study develops a model for understanding spatial change and the construction of space as a meeting-place, and then employs it in order to show an otherwise little-known picture of (sub-)urban Russia and its transformation from Soviet times to today. The model is based on time-geographic ideas of time-space as a limited resource in which forces of various kinds struggle for access and form space in interaction with each other. LÄS MER