Please join The
Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Project and Global Europe
Program
for a
presentation and discussion of
Landscapes
of Post-Modernity:
Changes
in the Built Fabric of Belgrade and Sofia since 1990
Tuesday,
February 26, 2013
3:30 - 5:00
pm
6th Floor Board
Room, Wilson Center
Washington,
DC
Please
RSVP to cusp@wilsoncenter.org; acceptances only
Featuring:
Sonia Hirt,
Chair and
Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech
Ellen Hamilton,
Lead Land and
Housing Specialist, Finance, Economics and Urban Department, The World
Bank
Sonia Hirt will
present research on the recent physical changes in the built fabric of the
Serbian capital of Belgrade and the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. She will apply
two bodies of literature, involving postsocialist urban transitions and
postmodern urban transitions. Hirt will present empirical observations on
changes in building functions, scales, and styles in both cities. The
presentation will highlight common traits that prevail in the evolution of urban
forms in both Belgrade and Sofia, but will examine how contrasting social and
cultural experiences of Serbia and Bulgaria during socialism and postsocialism
have produced locally specific results. Hirt’s work suggests that postsocialist
cities represent textbook examples of urban postmodernization, much as socialist
cities epitomized the essential legacy of modernist urbanity.
Ellen Hamilton
will comment on the presentation, assessing the broader implications of Hirt’s
research for the future of urban areas of Eastern Europe.
The Wilson
Center is located in the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line). A map to the Center is available
at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Entrance to
the building is restricted and photo identification is required.
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