Abstract
Hirt, Sonja, A.: Iron curtains: gates, suburbs and privatization of space in the post-socialist city
Highlights
The difference between ‘space’ and ‘place’ is that the latter is chosen and accustomed, like the planet of ‘Little prince’ by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In its privatism [understood as ‘(...) disbelief in a benevolent public realm and the widespread sense that to appropriate the public may be the best way to thrive in private’, p. 4], post-socialist Sofia is an example of the post-modern extreme
Sonia Hirt analyses the phenomenon of the rise of privatism, which at the same time is the fall of the civil society—if it ever had a chance to develop in Sofia
Summary
The difference between ‘space’ and ‘place’ is that the latter is chosen and accustomed, like the planet of ‘Little prince’ by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Sonja, A.: Iron curtains: gates, suburbs and privatization of space in the post-socialist city This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
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