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Building Socialism
- The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam
Engelsk Paperback

Building Socialism

- The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam
Engelsk Paperback

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Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism Christina Schwenkel examines the utopian visions of an expert group of Vietnamese and East German urban planners who sought to transform the devastated industrial town of Vinh into a model socialist city. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in Vietnam and Germany with architects, engineers, construction workers, and tenants in Vinh’s mass housing complex, Schwenkel explores the material and affective dimensions of urban possibility and the quick fall of Vinh’s new built environment into unplanned obsolescence. She analyzes the tensions between aspirational infrastructure and postwar uncertainty to show how design models and practices that circulated between the socialist North and the decolonizing South underwent significant modification to accommodate alternative cultural logics and ideas about urban futurity. By documenting the building of Vietnam’s first planned city and its aftermath of decay and repurposing, Schwenkel argues that underlying the ambivalent and often unpredictable responses to modernist architectural forms were anxieties about modernity and the future of socialism itself.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478011064
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478011068
Udg. Dato:
20 nov 2020
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
231mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
20 nov 2020
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