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Author:

Zarecor, Kimberly Elman.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 383 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
Architecture, Domestic--History--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
Architecture and state--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
Dwellings--Czechoslovakia--History--History--20th century.
Housing--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
Socialism--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
Social change--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
Modern movement (Architecture)--Czechoslovakia.
Czechoslovakia--Social conditions--1945-1992.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 Ji¿©Ư Kroha -- The industrialization of housing : Zl©Ưn and the evolution of the Panel©Łk -- Epilogue.

Series:

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies

ISBN:

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

OCLC:

(OCoLC)682902958

LCCN:

2010045864

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)