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Owen Hatherley

Across the Plaza: the Public Voids of the Post-Soviet City

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  • peolrinaje citiraoпре 3 године
    allegedly unused and unusable (or more to the point, non-profit-making) space
  • Jan Noje citiraoпре 4 године
    many remain ambiguous spaces, spaces nobody is quite sure what to do with. Contestable spaces
  • Jan Noje citiraoпре 4 године
    the dreamlike ambience of these spaces provides an attraction that is a counter to the chaotic pile-up of the capitalist streetscape.
  • Jan Noje citiraoпре 4 године
    That does not necessarily make them socialist spaces.
  • Jan Noje citiraoпре 4 године
    These spaces, with their sweeping scale, their now-inconceivable wastage of potentially very lucrative land values, are not capitalist spaces.
  • Jan Noje citiraoпре 4 године
    This part of the work, Across the Plaza, is centred on the spaces where the Soviet system was born, in a successful socialist revolution, which became the ceremonial spaces where the regimes that took the name ‘socialist’ displayed themselves; which were in turn the spaces where those regimes were brought down, where sometimes the regimes that followed them were brought down, and where something new could still take shape.
  • Jan Noje citiraoпре 4 године
    It also finds them full of layer upon layer of meaning, with unavoidable spatial and physical reminders that there were once alternatives, and there could still be.
  • Jan Noje citiraoпре 4 године
    ‘Normalisation’ was the watchword of the regimes of the 1970s and 80s, after the 1968 Prague Spring was crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks.
  • Jan Noje citiraoпре 4 године
    A similar function is performed by a phrase which is spoken all the time in this post-Soviet territory — the longing to become ‘a normal country’.
  • Jan Noje citiraoпре 4 године
    The post-1989 system also enforces a ‘realism’ that prohibits alternatives; if, before, October 1917 was the last permissible revolution, now November 1989 is the last word.
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