If Cars Could Walk: Postsocialist Streets in Transformation

Contents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\nChapter 1. Seven Imaginary Images of the Transition of GDR Streets, 1989–1995\nChapter 2. Liberated or Lawless? Social Life on Prishtina’s Postwar Streets\nChapter 3. ‘Changing Everything Fast’? Young Men in the Streets of Tbilisi\nChapter 4. Coproducing the Car and the Stratified Street: Automobility and Space in Russia\nChapter 5. Bucharest’s Centura: Encircling a City in Transformation\nChapter 6. Pedestrianizing Moscow: Disparities between the Centre and the Inner Periphery\nChapter 7. Between Non-Place and Public Space: Life at a Postsocialist (Trolley)Bus Stop\nChapter 8. Where the Streets Have No Name: Toponymic Changes, Wayfinding and Tashkent’s System of Orientiry\nChapter 9. No Future without a Motorway Exit: Roadside Communities in Postsocialist Poland – the Case of Torzym\nConclusion\nPostscript 1. No Alternative to the Car; or: What Remained of Socialism after 1989/91?\nPostscript 2. Periodization, Postsocialism and the Directionally Challenged\nPostscript 3. ‘Where Is the Postsocialism Here?’\nIndex