Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings by Owen Hatherley

Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings

Owen Hatherley

624 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging reflective slow-paced

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When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and creating sweeping boulevards and vast, epic housing estates in an emphatic declaration of a noncapitalist idea. The regimes that built th...

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