PATTERNS_Lectures course – Fragmented Space: The Transformation of Central European Cities
Implemented in the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and at the Budapest Un
The course aims to give students an insight into the tendencies and processes of Central European urban development. By juxtaposing definitions and perspectives on Central European cities with those on Post-Socialist and Balkan cities, the course will combine a variety of approaches to cities of the region. Encountering not only similar development paths but also the way ideas and solutions travel, as well as differences in urban development, students will develop a sense of regional characteristics, by understanding the logics and dynamics of the spatial framework of their everyday life and culture.
Each occasion (2 x 90 mins weekly) will focus on specific urban phenomena (such as population change, housing typologies, public spaces, informal urbanism, memory politics, social movements, cultural developments, new architectures, new cityscapes and representations) by reading texts and watching videos related both pre-1989 and post-1989 urban situations, and by offering a picture in close-up of certain cities, such as Prague, Belgrade, Bratislava, Tirana, Budapest, Zagreb, Vienna, Warsaw, Sofia and Berlin.
Schedule
1. Post-socialist economy, society, city
“Behind the Counter” exhibition at Műcsarnok
2. Introduction
Central European cities, Post-socialist cities, Balkan cities: Discourses, contexts, prespectives
3. Post-socialist transition and development paths
Judit Bodnár: Constructing Difference. Western versus Non-Western, Capitalist versus Socialist Urban Logic, p. 13-34. In: Judit Bodnár: Fin-de-Millénaire Budapest, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Kiril Stanilov: Urban development policies in Central and Eastern Europe during the transition period and their impact on urban form, p. 347-358. In: Kiril Stanilov (ed.): The Post-Socialist City. Urban Form and Space Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after Socialism. Dordrecht, Springer, 2007
Recommended readings:
Karl Schlögel: The Comeback of the European Cities, p. 471-485. In: International Review of Sociology, 2006/2
Drago Jancar: Utopia or Reality? In: Eurozine, 31.08.2004
Boris Buden: The way between Zagreb and Prishtina
Wilfred Hackenbroich, Thilo Fuchs and Kai Vöckler: Planning for Uncertain Cities – Towards an Urban Post-Conflict Strategy, p. 173-177. In: Kai Vöckler (ed.): Prishtina is Everywhere. Turbo Urbanism: the Aftermath of a Crisis. Basel, Archis, 2008
Francois Chaslin: Une Haine Monumentale concerning the shameful destruction of the cities of the former Yugoslavia.
Kiril Stanilov: Taking stock of post-socialist urban development. A recapitulation p. 3-20. In: Kiril Stanilov (ed.): The Post-Socialist City. Urban Form and Space Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after Socialism. Dordrecht, Springer, 2007
Aldo Milohnic: Ljubljana between Internationalization and Provincialization, p. 472-483. In: Katrin Klingan and Ines Kappert (eds.): Leap into the City. Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven scenes from Europe. Du Mont Literatur and Kust Verlag, Cologne, 2006
Kiril Stanilov: Urban planning and the challenges of post-socialist transformation, p. 413-424. In: Kiril Stanilov (ed.): The Post-Socialist City. Urban Form and Space Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after Socialism. Dordrecht, Springer, 2007
4. The apartment and the city: gentrification, commercialization and new forms of habitat
Kiril Stanilov: Housing trends in Central and Eastern European cities during and after the period of transition, p. 173-190. In: Kiril Stanilov (ed.): The Post-Socialist City. Urban Form and Space Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after Socialism. Dordrecht, Springer, 2007
Judit Bodnár: Inner City Doubly Renewed. Global Phenomenon, Local Accents, p. 59-102. In: Judit Bodnár: Fin-de-Millénaire Budapest, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2001
Yaakov Garb and Tomasz Dybicz: The retail revolution in post-socialist Central Europe and its lessons, p. 231-252. In: Sasha Tsenkova and Zorica Nedovic-Budic (eds.): The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe. Space, Institutions and Policy. Heidelberg, Physica Verlag, 2006
Recommended readings:
Judit Bodnár: Urban Texture Unraveling: Fragmentation of the City, p.157-182. In: Judit Bodnár: Fin-de-Millénaire Budapest, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2001
Latchezar Bogdanov: Property Rights, Regulations, and the Housing Sector in Sofia, p. 120-127. In: Katrin Klingan and Ines Kappert (eds.): Leap into the City. Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven scenes from Europe. Du Mont Literatur and Kust Verlag, Cologne, 2006
Maciej Gdula: Warsaw, The Gated Capital, p. 348-357. In: Katrin Klingan and Ines Kappert (eds.): Leap into the City. Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven scenes from Europe. Du Mont Literatur and Kust Verlag, Cologne, 2006
David Crowley: Shops and markets, p. 98-142. In: David Crowley: Warsaw. London, Reaktion Books, 2003
Jana Temelová:: Flagship developments and the physical upgrading of the post-socialist inner city: the Golden Angel project in Prague, p. 169-181. Geografiska Annaler, 2007/2
Allan Siegel and Gabriella Uhl (eds.) Market Hall—Expiration Date: to be determined. Budapest, Ernst Museum, 2005
5. Representations 1.: Films
Alfrun Kliems: The Golden City and the Golden Shot. Images from Prague After the Velvet Revolution. In: Alfrun Kliems and Marina Dmitrieva (eds.) : The Post-Socialist City. Continuity and Change in Urban Space and Imagery. Jovis, Berlin, 2010
Films:
Dariusz Gajewski: Warsaw (2003)
Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda: Czech Dream (2004)
6. Urban heritage and new architectures
Arnold Bartetzky: Changes in the Political Iconography of East Central European Capitals after 1989 (Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava), p. 451-469. In: International Review of Sociology, 2006/2
The Transformation of an Iconic Building. In.: Radivoje Dinulovic and Aleksandar Brkic (eds.) Theatre – Politics – City, Belgrade, YUSTAT, 2007
Doina Petrescu: The People’s House, or the voluptuous violence of an architectural paradox, p. 188-195. In: Neil Leach (ed.): Architecture and Revolution. London, Routledge, 1999
Recommended readings:
Monika A. Murzyn: Urban Regeneration. Theoretical Approaches and the Context of Post-Socialist Central Europe. In: Kazimierz. The Central European Experience of Urban Regeneration, p. 40-90.Miedzynarodowe Centrum Kultury, Cracow, 2006
Konstantin Akinsha: Bringing Communism to the Museum, p. 376-386. In: Katrin Klingan and Ines Kappert (eds.): Leap into the City. Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven scenes from Europe. Du Mont Literatur and Kust Verlag, Cologne, 2006
Wilfried Jilge : Cultural Policy as the Politics of History. Independence Square in Kiev. In: Alfrun Kliems and Marina Dmitrieva (eds.) : The Post-Socialist City. Continuity and Change in Urban Space and Imagery. Jovis, Berlin, 2010
Gregorz Piatek – Promised City Warsaw (http://www.goethe.de/ins/pl/lp/prj/cit/enindex.htm)
Kenneth E. Foote, Attila Toth, Anett Arvay: Hungary after 1989: Inscribing a New Past on Place, p. 301-334. In: Geographical Review 2000/3
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss: Loss of Memory? New Urban Condition of Belgrade. Lecture at TH Probe, “New Urban Conditions”, Tokyo 2001
Constantin Petcou: Totalitarian city: Bucharest 1980–9, semio-clinical files, p. 177-187. In: Neil Leach (ed.): Architecture and Revolution. London, Routledge, 1999
Samuel Abrahám and Miroslav Marcelli: The architecture of the European city. Interview with Bogdan Bogdanovic. In: Eurozine, 20.10.2003
Levente Polyák: Skyscrapers in Budapest? The Anatomy of a Discourse, p.50-52. In: ERA21, 2008/6
7. Transformations of the urban landscape
Ella Chmielewska: Logos or the Resonance of Branding: A Close Reading of the Iconosphere of Warsaw, p. 349-381. In: Space and Culture 2005; 8; 349
Ivaylo Ditchev: The Delocalizing Gaze (Luchezar Boyadjiev reshuffling the city). In: http://artefact.mi2.hr/_a04/lang_en/theory_ditchev_en.htm
Ilona Sármány-Parsons: Aesthetic Aspects of Change in Urban Space in Prague and Budapest, p. 9-34. In György Enyedi (ed.): Social Change and Urban Restructuring in Central Europe. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1998.
Recommended reading:
Mariusz Czepczynski : Representations and Images of Recent History: The Transition of Socialist Landscape Icons. In : Alfrun Kliems and Marina Dmitrieva (eds.) : The Post-Socialist City. Continuity and Change in Urban Space and Imagery. Jovis, Berlin, 2010
8. Public spaces
Malcolm Miles: Public Spheres, p. 133-150. In: Angela Harutyunyan, Kathrin Hörschelmann and Malcolm Miles (eds.): Public Spheres After Socialism. Bristol, Intellect Books, 2009
Kiril Stanilov: Democracy, markets, and public space in the transitional societies of Central and Eastern Europe. In: Kiril Stanilov (ed.): The Post-Socialist City. Urban Form and Space Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after Socialism. Dordrecht, Springer, 2007
Judit Bodnár: Assembling the Square. Social Transformation in Public Space and the Broken Mirage of the Second Economy, p. 103-128. In: Judit Bodnár: Fin-de-Millénaire Budapest, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2001
Recommended reading:
Augustin Ioan: The peculiar history of (post)communist public places and spaces: Bucharest as a case study. In: Kiril Stanilov (ed.): The Post-Socialist City. Urban Form and Space Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after Socialism. Dordrecht, Springer, 2007
9. Architectures of the culture
Visiting the Architectural Model Festival at the Budapest Kunsthalle
10. New cultural territories: cultural centres, institutes, quarters
Skaidra Trilupaityte: Global museums in the twenty−first century. The Guggenheim foundation and the rhetoric of cultural planning in Vilnius. Eurozine, 17. 04. 2008
Sampo Ruoppila: Eastern European cities in the making – temporary land use as a tool for cultural projects, p. 24-26. In: Journal for Northeast Issues, 2004/3
Peter Lugosi, David Bell and Krisztina Lugosi: Hospitality, Culture and Regeneration: Urban Decay, Entrepreneurship and the ‘Ruin’ Bars of Budapest. In: Urban Studies, published online on 11 June 2010
Recommended readings:
Hito Steyerl: Is the East a Productive Aesthetic Category? p. 502-513. In: Katrin Klingan and Ines Kappert (eds.): Leap into the City. Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven scenes from Europe. Du Mont Literatur and Kust Verlag, Cologne, 2006.
Ébli Gábor: Lesz-e a Balkánon új központ? In: Balkon, 2009/10
Allan Siegel: A művészet új társadalmi terei. A budapesti Millenáris Park, a bécsi Museums Quartier és a londoni Tate Modern. In: Balkon, 2005/1
Monika de Frantz: Cultural regeneration as discursive governance: some lessons from the conflictive process of constructing a new ‘museums quarters’ in Vienna. Paper presented to EURA-Eurocities Conference on ‘European Urban Development, Research and Policy and the Future of European Cohesion Policy’, 28-30 August 2003, Budapest, Hungary
Cynthia Imogen Hammond : Urban Thruths. Artistic intervention in Post-Socialist Space. In: Alfrun Kliems and Marina Dmitrieva (eds.) : The Post-Socialist City. Continuity and Change in Urban Space and Imagery. Jovis, Berlin, 2010
11. Urban movements and organizations
Andrea Zlatar: Zagreb – Of Hidden Utopias and New Collectives, p. 400-413. In: Katrin Klingan and Ines Kappert (eds.): Leap into the City. Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven scenes from Europe. Du Mont Literatur and Kust Verlag, Cologne, 2006.
Edwin Bendyk: Citizens against the City, p. 326-341. In: Katrin Klingan and Ines Kappert (eds.): Leap into the City. Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven scenes from Europe. Du Mont Literatur and Kust Verlag, Cologne, 2006.
Kai Vöckler: Archis Interventions in Prishtina, p. 129-166. In: Kai Vöckler (ed.): Prishtina is Everywhere. Turbo Urbanism: the Aftermath of a Crisis. Basel, Archis, 2008.
Recommended reading:
Levente Polyák: Heritage as argument, heritage as authority: Notions and positions in contemporary Budapest urban planning discourse. In: Schröder-Esch, S. & Justus H. Ulbricht (eds.): The Politics of Heritage and Regional Development Strategies. Weimar, Bauhaus Universitat, 2006
12. Informal urbanism
Peter Moertenboeck & Helge Mooshammer: Trading Places. In: Peter Moertenboeck & Helge Mooshammer (eds.) Networked Cultures. Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space. Rotterdam, NAi Publishers, 2008
Kai Vöckler: Turbo Urbanism in Prishtina, p. 35-54. In: Kai Vöckler (ed.): Prishtina is Everywhere. Turbo Urbanism: the Aftermath of a Crisis. Basel, Archis, 2008.
Natasa Petresin: The Dynamic Balkans: A Working Model for the EU? Interview with Kyong Park and Marjetica Potrc, p. 320-329. In: Sarai Reader 2006, New Delhi, Sarai, 2006 Hintergrund 45: 17. Wiener Architekturkongress: Balkanology. Architekturzentrum Wien, 2010.
Recommended readings:
Roma settlements in Belgrade. In: Reartikulacja (April 2010)
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss: Beyond an Architecture of Troublemaking. p. 198-205. In: In: Kai Vöckler (ed.): Prishtina is Everywhere. Turbo Urbanism: the Aftermath of a Crisis. Basel, Archis, 2008.
13. Representations 2.: Texts
Dragan Velikic: Astrakhan, p. 105-152. In: Joanna Labon (ed.): Balkan Blues. Writing Out of Yugoslavia. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 1995
Bogdan Bogdanovic: The City and Death, p. 37-74. In: Joanna Labon (ed.): Balkan Blues. Writing Out of Yugoslavia. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 1995
Madgalena Tulli: Dreams and Stones. New York, Archipelago Books, 2004
Ajánlott olvasmányok:
Bogna Swiatkowska (ed.): Notes from Warsaw. Bec Zmiana, Warsaw, 2007
Sarajevo. In: Habitus, a diaspora journal, 2007/2
Helene Cixous: Attack on the Castle, p. 228-233. In: Neil Leach (ed.): Architecture and Refvolution. London,. Routledge, 1999.
Dzevad Karahasan: Sarajevo: Portrait of an Inward City, p. 89-104. In: Joanna Labon (ed.): Balkan Blues. Writing Out of Yugoslavia. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 1995
The Central European City In: Lettre Internationale, spring 2008 and at http://www.visegradgroup.eu/main.php?folderID=1111
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