Overview
This collection of essays spans numerous disciplines, including urban planning, architecture, and history. The study focuses on the interrelated transitions of city culture and city planning in modern Georgia, establishing a field of connections between city culture and planning that is unsurpassed in breath and depth. The combination of well-established Georgian and international scholars allows for an in-depth analysis of this multiplicity of relations, an analysis that sheds new light on city planning, the role of knowledge, trust, networks, and heritage as it elucidates the shortcomings of 'transition' concepts in new ways. Concepts of identity occur over and over again in the essays, with city space appearing as an arena for identity politics. This book is timely, given the recently renewed history of conflicts in the Caucasus, and it contributes to scholarship in the area by detailing the difficulties of reshaping city and society when threats are imminent, resources are scarce, and democratic institutions are fragile.
Full Product Details
Author: Kristof Van Assche ,
Joseph Salukvadze ,
Nick Shavishvili
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN: 9780773448285
ISBN 10: 0773448284
Pages: 368
Publication Date: February 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""... an unnerving mix of views and insights into a fascinating country. A country in the Caucasus that can be regarded as a social laboratory and a pars pro toto for all types of turmoil in our western society of the last two centuries; cultural, political, and ideological turmoil."" - Prof. Andre van der Zande Wageningen University ""... offers very interesting results of research, analysis and reflection involving different scientific fields. The studies deal with Georgian the environment, landscape and urbanism in the context of Georgian tradition and of ancient, modern and recent history."" - Prof. Aart van Zoest University of Utrecht"""
... an unnerving mix of views and insights into a fascinating country. A country in the Caucasus that can be regarded as a social laboratory and a pars pro toto for all types of turmoil in our western society of the last two centuries; cultural, political, and ideological turmoil. - Prof. Andre van der Zande Wageningen University ... offers very interesting results of research, analysis and reflection involving different scientific fields. The studies deal with Georgian the environment, landscape and urbanism in the context of Georgian tradition and of ancient, modern and recent history. - Prof. Aart van Zoest University of Utrecht
