Rethinking roots of socialist city

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Sevim, Emre
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Capitalist urbanization is doomed to meet a dead-end. Hereby, from a utopian point of view, we propose the socialist city as a revolutionary alternative to overcome the capitalist crises. We discuss the principles of the socialist city in the light of references from socialist city expansions in the past and in contrast to today’s capitalist cities. We discuss how can the principle ideas of the socialist ideology such as equality, organization and productivity be spatialized, how can space serve publicness and socialization of the society, how can the urban space and geography be equal, and how can the socialist city serve productive forces against consumerism of the capitalist city.
Urbanization., Cities and towns., Sociology, Urban.
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12619409/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/25146
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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E. Sevim, “Rethinking roots of socialist city,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2015.
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