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Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When plans to redevelop the city began, hope and expectations ran high; in the end, however, Most became a symbol for the heartless incompetence of Czechoslovak communism. In this book, Matěj Spurný explores the historical city of Most from the nineteenth century into the years following World War II, investigating the decision to destroy it as well as the negotiations concerning the spirit of the proposed new city. Situating postwar Most in the context of cultural and social shifts in Czechoslovakia and Europe as a whole, Spurný traces the path a medieval city took to become a showcase of brutalist architecture and the regime's technicist inhumanity. But the book, like the city of Most itself, does not end in tragedy. Fusing architectural and political history with urban and environmental studies, Spurný's tale shows the progress that can be made when Czechs confront the crimes of the past – including the expulsion of local Germans and the treatment of the Romani minority – and engage with rational, contemporary European concepts of urban renewal.

Housing estates were fundamentally conceived upon state socialist utopia ideas to provide standard housing for citizens. While former state socialist housing estates have been extensively researched in the field of architecture, urban and sociology studies, there is still a gap in identifying how production processes affect morphological changes during the post-socialist era. This thesis compares the processes in the production of the largest housing estates of Marzahn in GDR and Petržalka in Czechoslovakia from 1970 to 1989 through contextual analysis of primary and secondary sources, which include visual maps, diagrams from professional architecture and planning journals, government documents and textbooks, as well as academic journals, books and newspaper articles. Then it discusses how these processes inadvertently created conducive conditions affecting their development in the market economy after 1989. It then interprets the results through application of Actor-Network Theory and Historical Institutionalism, while conceptualising them through David Harvey's dialectical utopianism theory. Harvey (2000) delineates two types of utopia, one of spatial form and one of process. The former refers to materialised ideals in physical forms whereas the latter refers to the ongoing process of spatializing. The thesis aims to show how the production of Marzahn in GDR was more path dependent on policies established in 1950s and 1960s whereas Petržalka was a product of new Czechoslovakian policies in 1970s, changing aspects of the urban planning process, a manifestation of a more emphatic technocratic thinking on a wider scale. This ultimately influences the trajectories of development after 1989, showing more effects in Petržalka.

Housing estates were fundamentally conceived upon state socialist utopia ideas to provide standard housing for citizens. While former state socialist housing estates have been extensively researched in the field of architecture, urban and sociology studies, there is still a gap in identifying how production processes affect morphological changes during the post-socialist era. This thesis compares the processes in the production of the largest housing estates of Marzahn in GDR and Petržalka in Czechoslovakia from 1970 to 1989 through contextual analysis of primary and secondary sources, which include visual maps, diagrams from professional architecture and planning journals, government documents and textbooks, as well as academic journals, books and newspaper articles. Then it discusses how these processes inadvertently created conducive conditions affecting their development in the market economy after 1989. It then interprets the results through application of Actor-Network Theory and Historical Institutionalism, while conceptualising them through David Harvey's dialectical utopianism theory. Harvey (2000) delineates two types of utopia, one of spatial form and one of process. The former refers to materialised ideals in physical forms whereas the latter refers to the ongoing process of spatializing. The thesis aims to show how the production of Marzahn in GDR was more path dependent on policies established in 1950s and 1960s whereas Petržalka was a product of new Czechoslovakian policies in 1970s, changing aspects of the urban planning process, a manifestation of a more emphatic technocratic thinking on a wider scale. This ultimately influences the trajectories of development after 1989, showing more effects in Petržalka.

How did political power function in the communist regimes of East Central Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their rejection of state socialism and its authoritarian world. The authors refer to the concept of Sinnwelt, the way in which groups and individuals made sense of the world around them. The essays focus on the dynamics of everyday life and the extent to which the relationship between citizens and the state was collaborative or antagonistic. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of life in this period, including modernization, consumption and leisure, and the everyday experiences of "ordinary people," single mothers, or those adopting alternative lifestyles. Empirically rich and conceptually original, the essays in this volume suggest new ways to understand how people make sense of everyday life under dictatorial regimes

À l'occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, le CEFRES a invité des chercheurs et des responsables de la recherche et de la coopération internationale à participer à huit tables rondes. Il s'agissait d'abord de réfléchir aux transformations du contexte dans lequel s'inscrit dorénavant le développement de la recherche, et aux défis que doivent relever les chercheurs et leurs réseaux ici, en France, et en Europe centrale depuis l'élargissement européen. Lors d'une seconde journée, de jeunes chercheurs formés partiellement par les institutions comme le CEFRES encadraient des tables rondes interdisciplinaires sur des thèmes d'actualité: Penser la violence et Culture et politique.

À l'occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, le CEFRES a invité des chercheurs et des responsables de la recherche et de la coopération internationale à participer à huit tables rondes. Il s'agissait d'abord de réfléchir aux transformations du contexte dans lequel s'inscrit dorénavant le développement de la recherche, et aux défis que doivent relever les chercheurs et leurs réseaux ici, en France, et en Europe centrale depuis l'élargissement européen. Lors d'une seconde journée, de jeunes chercheurs formés partiellement par les institutions comme le CEFRES encadraient des tables rondes interdisciplinaires sur des thèmes d'actualité: Penser la violence et Culture et politique.

À l'occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, le CEFRES a invité des chercheurs et des responsables de la recherche et de la coopération internationale à participer à huit tables rondes. Il s'agissait d'abord de réfléchir aux transformations du contexte dans lequel s'inscrit dorénavant le développement de la recherche, et aux défis que doivent relever les chercheurs et leurs réseaux ici, en France, et en Europe centrale depuis l'élargissement européen. Lors d'une seconde journée, de jeunes chercheurs formés partiellement par les institutions comme le CEFRES encadraient des tables rondes interdisciplinaires sur des thèmes d'actualité: Penser la violence et Culture et politique.

À l'occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, le CEFRES a invité des chercheurs et des responsables de la recherche et de la coopération internationale à participer à huit tables rondes. Il s'agissait d'abord de réfléchir aux transformations du contexte dans lequel s'inscrit dorénavant le développement de la recherche, et aux défis que doivent relever les chercheurs et leurs réseaux ici, en France, et en Europe centrale depuis l'élargissement européen. Lors d'une seconde journée, de jeunes chercheurs formés partiellement par les institutions comme le CEFRES encadraient des tables rondes interdisciplinaires sur des thèmes d'actualité: Penser la violence et Culture et politique.