Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints: Global Entanglements of Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period

Contents\nGlobal Entanglements of Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period – Approaches and Perspectives\nI Soviet Transfer: Strategies and Limits\nBetween ‘Self-Sovietisation’ and Soviet Assistance: Urban Planning and Design in China, 1950s–1960s\nIntegrate, Adapt, Collaborate: Concerns of Comecon’s Technical Assistance to Mongolia during the Cold War\nPrefabricating Uzbekistan? Discourses and Realities of Urban Redevelopment in Tashkent and Samarkand under Soviet Rule\nII Networks: Comecon, GDR and the “Global South”\nA Cuban Nickel Plant made in the GDR? The Architecture of a Comecon Joint Venture\nBetween Factory and Fiction – Planning and Implementation of Agro-Industrial Development Projects in Ghana in Cooperation with CMEA Countries, 1960–1966\nOf Mobility and Earth: Hannah Schreckenbach’s Engagements with Indigenous Architectures in Ghana\nStralsund – More than Exchange of Experiences\nIII Media, Perceptions and Afterlives of Socialist Architecture and Planning\nArchitecture of International Zagreb Fair between the East and West\nShell Sheds for China: Exported Industrial Architecture from the GDR – Intentions and Reception\nSettlements of Post-Socialist Development? Reconstructing East German Solidarity through Housing Projects in the Global South after 1990\nThe Afterlife of Architectural Aid to Vietnam: A View from the Global South\nAbout the Authors