Stătică, I. (2021) Urban courtyards: ideologies of domesticity and the landscape of welfare in communist Bucharest. Landscape Research, 46 (4). pp. 574-587. ISSN 0142-6397
Abstract
This article addresses the emergence of urban landscapes as a form of welfare tied to the provision of housing in pre-communist and communist Bucharest. Despite the importance of welfare landscapes in post-war capitalist Western Europe, this notion has been little addressed in relation to former communist countries in the Eastern Bloc. The case of Romania is exemplary in articulating how the phenomenon emerged within a planned economy where urban planning and housing provision were exclusively state-controlled. Welfare landscapes shifted during the communist regime, from their prior manifestation as a dense network of garden courtyards and public gardens to become a regulated system of parks with specific ideological purposes. This article proposes that state-planned welfare landscapes were paralleled by ‘urban courtyards’ that rescued the memory of the pre-communist garden city and informally established different extents of a ‘good life’ within standardised housing ensembles.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Landscape Research Group Ltd. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Landscape Research. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Urban courtyards; communism; domesticity; hospitality; Bucharest |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture and Landscape |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2024 11:47 |
Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2024 11:47 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01426397.2020.1749578 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:219586 |