Name: The Afterlife of Utopia. Urban Renewal in Germany's Model Socialist City
SKU: 65762289
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Author: Samantha Maurer Fox
ISBN: 9781501785115

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The Afterlife of Utopia. Urban Renewal in Germany's Model Socialist City

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Cornell University Press

Autor

Samantha Maurer Fox

Año

2026

N° páginas

246

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2 cm

ISBN13

9781501785115

The Afterlife of Utopia. Urban Renewal in Germany's Model Socialist City

Samantha Maurer Fox (Autor) · Cornell University Press · Tapa Blanda

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In The Afterlife of Utopia, Samantha Maurer Fox traces the transformation of Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany's first planned socialist city, from a Cold War showcase to a paragon of sustainable shrinkage. Founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, the city was designed to embody socialist ideals. After German reunification, Eisenhüttenstadt lost over half its population, shifting from a model city at the center of the Eastern Bloc to a shrinking city on the nation's periphery. Samantha Maurer Fox portrays Eisenhüttenstadt's story as reinvention rather than decline. Today, its restored center is Europe's largest protected historical site, reshaped by extensive demolition and renewal projects. Fox shows how these initiatives revived the city's original collectivist ideals, creatively reclaiming socialist heritage through an urban strategy unmatched in late industrial Europe. The Afterlife of Utopia explores what happens when grand ideological experiments outlive the regimes that built them, challenging assumptions about resilience, progress, and urban futurity.