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Iron Curtains
Contributor(s): Hirt, Sonia A. (Author)
ISBN: 1444338269     ISBN-13: 9781444338263
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $40.38  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
Dewey: 307.121
LCCN: 2011043301
Series: Studies in Urban and Social Change
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Balkan
 
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Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize The prize is sponsored by Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.

Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe.

  • Features original data, illustrations, and theory on the process of privatization of resources in societies undergoing fundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those in Eastern Europe
  • Represents the sole in-depth monograph on contemporary urbanism in Southeast Europe
  • Makes a broader statement on issues of urbanism in Europe and other parts of the world while highlighting the complex connections between cultures and cities