Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Post-socialist city (17.A932)

Type of studies	Title
Doctoral Academic Studies	Architecture (Year: 2, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Architectural-Urbanistic Planning, Design and Theory
ECTS	10

Understanding the interdependence of socio-economic environment and urban development based on an analytical approach to investigating social, spatial and cultural changes and their implications on various urban processes in the transitional circumstances. Insight into the research of the socialist heritage and its influence on urban processes, as a basis for the development of a scientific approach to confronting the challenges of a modern city. Acquiring knowledge on contemporary theoretical and methodological bases for the research of urban transformations during the socialist and post-socialist period, with the aim of examining the impacts of socio-spatial restructuring on the material and non-material post-socialist urban landscape. Development of the ability of critical approach to the analyses of urban transformations from the aspect of their positive and negative effects in the context of researching the modern city.

Acquiring new knowledge necessary for individual research on urban transformations in line with the challenges of modern urban development, which would be based on analytical and synthetic approach. Development of theoretical and practical competencies that are of great importance for the establishment of an interdisciplinary model of continuous and active cooperation during the investigation of transformations of urban space in the transitional circumstances. Providing the students with scientific tools needed for individual research of urban phenomena and processes in the context of recognizing multi-layered impacts of material and non-material heritage and socio-economic environment.

Post-socialist urban transformations: research and interpretation of causal relationships and correlations between transitional reforms and various levels of urban restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Deconstruction of the socialist- and formation of the post-socialist city - as a phenomenon that adapts to the rules and conditions of the transition from socialism to capitalism and as a socio-spatial manifestation of the transitional processes. Characteristics of urban changes and genesis of post-socialist urban landscapes – influential factors, principles and patterns. Common elements and differences based on the specifics of the socialist socio-economic environment and comparisons with capitalist cities. Comparative analyses of selected examples in the Central and Eastern Europe. Individual students’ research projects - a critical analysis of the integrity and continuity of urban changes during the socialist period and during the transition.

Lectures; workshop - critical analysis of selected examples and synthesis of acquired knowledge through individual students’ research projects; interaction between the participants in the teaching process through discussion and mentoring.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
French, R.A. i Hamilton, F.E.I.	The Socialist City: Spatial Structure and Urban Policy	1979	John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, New York, Brisbane, Toronto	English
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Smith, N.	Uneven Development – Nature, Capital and the Production of Space	2008	The University of Georgia Press, Athens	English
Le Gates, R.T. i Stout, F.	The City Reader	2011	Routledge, London, New York	English
Stanilov, K. i Sykora, L.	Confronting Suburbanization – Urban Decentralization in Post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe	2014	John Willey & Sons, Chichester	English
Diener, R., Meili, M., Mueller Inderbitzin, C. i Topalovic, M.	Belgrade – Formal In-formal: A Research on Urban Transformation	2012	ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute, Basel	English
Mrduljaš, M., Kulić, V.	Unifinished Modernisations Between Utopia and Pragmatism : Architecture and Urban Planning in Yugoslavia and the Successor States	2012	Croatian Architects Association, Zagreb	English
Stanilov, K.	The Post-Socialist City: Urban Forms and Space Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe after Socialism	2009	Springer, Dordrecht	English
Miles, S. i Miles, M.	Consuming cities	2004	Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, New York	English