Between solidarity and economic constraints: global Entanglements of Socialist Architecture and planning in the Cold War Period

During the Cold War, architecture became a crucial signifier of competing concepts of modernization and new national identities in the "Global South". This book explores the networks and interactions in the field of architecture and construction between actors from and within socialist countries and from countries of the Global South. The authors reveal the maniforld forms of cooperation between the East, the South and the West, including the cross-border entanglements within the South and the East. Using approaches from the history of planning, construction and architectural design, they analyze many building projects against the background of economic interests, political strategies and conflicts. The scope of projects focused on involve actors from Yugoslavia, USSR and GDR to projects in Cuba, Ghana, China and Vietnam.