Iron Curtains

Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention forthe 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize! The prize issponsored by Harvard University's Davis Center for Russianand Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association forSlavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for an outstandingmonograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe inanthropology, political science, sociology, orgeography. Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia,Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization ofSpace in the Post-socialist City explores the human dimensionof new city-building that has emerged in East Europe. * Features original data, illustrations, and theory on theprocess of privatization of resources in societies undergoingfundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those inEastern Europe * Represents the sole in-depth monograph on contemporaryurbanism in Southeast Europe * Makes a broader statement on issues of urbanism in Europe andother parts of the world while highlighting the complex connectionsbetween cultures and cities... Mehr