Gynecological Ultrasound

Leucht, W.; Leucht, D.

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“…(Of course the construction of cultural amenities without an eye toward profitability was not unique to socialism, but East German planners of Leucht’s generation described their building practices as uniquely socialist. 8 ) Leucht (1993) called the city a “homunculus” to illustrate that it was conceived as a single, fully formed being rather than an assemblage of discrete elements. And he was not alone in this mentality.…”

Section: All For One: Light Darkness and Urban Space Under Socialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Street lighting and the uneasy coexistence of socialist and capitalist urban imaginaries

Fox

2020

Environ Plan D

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This essay examines the partial privatization of street lamps in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany. Founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, East Germany’s steel manufacturing hub and socialist utopia, today the city suffers from economic shrinkage and depopulation. In 2014, Eisenhüttenstadt’s government privatized approximately 10% of the city’s street lamps, a response to both the city’s shrunken tax base and to the Energiewende, Germany’s national push toward renewable energy, which has led to the precipitous rise of consumer energy costs. I examine privatized street lamps within the broader context of Eisenhüttenstadt’s technological and sociopolitical development. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, I show how, during the socialist era, street lamps were an essential instrument in the construction and conceptualization of socialist urban space. Since privatization, they have come to signify the fractured and radically individualized nature of capitalist urban space. As such, I reveal how socialism—and the rupture caused by its abrupt replacement with capitalism—remains present and perceptible in the urban landscape, and how that presence poses challenges for urban planners and municipal officials working in Eisenhüttenstadt today, 30 years after East Germany’s dissolution.

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Section: All For One: Light Darkness and Urban Space Under Socialismmentioning

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Street lighting and the uneasy coexistence of socialist and capitalist urban imaginaries

Fox

2020

Environ Plan D

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“…Community [Nachbarschaft] cannot be left to its own devices." 88 Eisenhüttenstadt was built with attention to population density, communal space, and walking accessibility between apartment buildings, schools, workplaces, and cultural amenities. Yet the material infrastructure that allows for communal life to flourish-the shared spaces and physical proximity-is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the kind of social life that existed under socialism.…”

Section: Capitalism Laundry Rooms and Bratwurstmentioning

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The Socialist Bratwurst: East German Urbanism and Its Reemergence in the Present

Fox

2020

Journal of Urban History

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This article examines defining features of East German urban planning—primarily the housing complex and the city/settlement binary—and their relationship to Eisenhüttenstadt, a city founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, an East German socialist utopia. Today Eisenhüttenstadt is home to a novel form of urban renewal in which architects and planners look to the socialist past for inspiration as they imagine a new urban future. I examine the history of socialist urbanism as it was implemented in Eisenhüttenstadt, as well as how residents and urban planners came to understand socialist urbanism in the years immediately following German reunification. I then examine an urban renewal program, started in 2014, that explicitly draws on the socialist past. In doing so, I aim to consider the socialist city not as an architectural form but as a set of practices, spatial imaginations, and ethical commitments that can be reanimated even in a capitalist sociopolitical context.

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Gynecological Ultrasound

Cited by 2 publications

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Street lighting and the uneasy coexistence of socialist and capitalist urban imaginaries

Street lighting and the uneasy coexistence of socialist and capitalist urban imaginaries

The Socialist Bratwurst: East German Urbanism and Its Reemergence in the Present

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