CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Novac, Sergiu |
|---|---|
| Title | An Archeology of a Civic Center - Redefining Urban Centrality in Brasov during Socialism |
| Summary | This thesis inquires into the urban planning notion of “civic centers”, by regarding it as a main tool used by socialist regimes for redefining urban centrality. Building civic centers during socialism will be framed as a technical and political act that had the function of freezing temporarily shifting visions of uncertain historical configurations of power relations. The case study that will be discussed, the Civic Center for Brașov project, will analyze the way in which a typical example of high modernist plan was articulated and how socialist urban centrality was negotiated at the intersection between local planners, the state and its citizens. The thesis will focus on the development of the “civic center” planning solution in Romanian socialism at the level of ideology, which it will then connect to the question of how a specific “civic center” project came into being at ground level and reveal the reasons why it failed to fulfill its ideological function – re-centering the city. |
| Supervisor | Bodnar, Judit; Naumescu, Vlad |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/novac_sergiu.pdf |
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