During the state socialist era, a small number of New Towns were also built in Hungary. Few
of these were true'green-field'projects, as most of them were developed into larger towns …

''Its mother was mining and its father was the planned economy'': this parable neatly
describes the family tree of Tatabanya, one of the Hungarian socialist cities (Faludi 2002 …

In this article the author aims to answer the following questions: Has the defence wall
separated the historical town from its suburbs for good? Have historical suburbs influenced …

Politics in Hungary since 1989 has been focusing on nation-building. Each government has
had a license to articulate what it is to be Hungarian, in the public realm with public funds …

Cities have been the theaters of state power for many centuries. What happens with the
existing architecture in capital cities when fundamentally different state regimes take over …

The design of successful public spaces is not merely a simple stylistic problem, but also a
reflection on the social circumstances of a certain era, an architectural answer to the …

By the end of the Second World War, many of the Polish cities—and especially their historic
centres—were in ruins. This was caused by both bombings and sieges conducted by the …

Modernist planners were given the opportunity to apply the idea of the Modern Movement in
the implementation of cities transforming after the World War II blitz, which was not possible …

The paper investigates causal relationships and correlations between transitional reforms
and various levels of urban restructuring that has taken place in the Central and Eastern …

Within the image of the post-Socialist city today, multiple tensions are at work. Official
representations of such cities, intended for cosmopolitan, leisured audiences and …