Manufacturing a socialist modernity : housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 / Kimberly Elman Zarecor.

Main entry:

Zarecor, Kimberly Elman.

Title & Author:

Manufacturing a socialist modernity : housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 / Kimberly Elman Zarecor.

Publication:

Description:

xiv, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

Series:

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Writing a postwar history -- Phoenix rising : housing and the early debates on socialist modernity -- Typification and standardization : Stavoprojekt and the transformation of architectural practice -- National in form, socialist in content : Sorela and architectural imagery -- A vision of socialist architecture : the late career of Jiří Kroha -- The industrialization of housing : Zlín and the evolution of the Panelák -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

9780822944041 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822944049 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Czechoslovakia History 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic Political aspects Czechoslovakia History 20th century.
Architecture and state Czechoslovakia History 20th century.
Dwellings Czechoslovakia Design and construction History 20th century.
Housing Czechoslovakia History 20th century.
Socialism Czechoslovakia 20th century.
Social change Czechoslovakia History 20th century.
Modern movement (Architecture) Czechoslovakia.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Tchécoslovaquie Histoire 20e siècle.
Habitations Construction Tchécoslovaquie Histoire 20e siècle.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Tchécoslovaquie.
Architecture and state.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Domestic Political aspects.
Dwellings Design and construction.
Housing.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Social change.
Social conditions
Socialism.
Wohnen
Wohnungsbau
Arkitektur politiska aspekter Tjeckoslovakien.
Boende Tjeckoslovakien.
Socialism historia Tjeckoslovakien 1900-talet.
Bostadshus design och konstruktion Tjeckoslovakien 1900-talet.
Czechoslovakia Social conditions 1945-1992.
Tchécoslovaquie Conditions sociales 1945-1992.
Czechoslovakia.
Tschechoslowakei
Tjeckoslovakien sociala förhållanden historia.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Series in Russian and East European studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273540
Call No.: BIB 207192
Status: Available

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