Bowling for communism : urban ingenuity at the end of East Germany /
Demshuk, Andrew, 1980-
Bowling for communism : urban ingenuity at the end of East Germany / Andrew Demshuk. - Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : Can Leipzig still be saved? -- Survival and Despair in Dystopia -- Urban Ingenuity in the System -- Utopian Visions in 1988 -- Urban Ingenuity Underground -- The City as Stage in Revolution -- Epilogue : Continuities in "The Saved City."
"This book shows how civic life functioned in East Germany's second-largest city on the eve of the 1989 Revolution by uncovering illegal and semi-legal acts of 'urban ingenuity' amid catastrophic urban decay"--
9781501751677 9781501751684
2020004275
Urban renewal--Citizen participation.--Germany--Leipzig
Urban renewal--Political aspects--Germany--Leipzig.
Urban renewal--History--Germany--Leipzig--20th century.
Communism and architecture--Germany--Leipzig.
Architecture and state--Germany (East)
City planning--Political aspects--History--Germany--Leipzig--20th century.
Electronic Books.
DD901 / .B695 2020
Bowling for communism : urban ingenuity at the end of East Germany / Andrew Demshuk. - Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : Can Leipzig still be saved? -- Survival and Despair in Dystopia -- Urban Ingenuity in the System -- Utopian Visions in 1988 -- Urban Ingenuity Underground -- The City as Stage in Revolution -- Epilogue : Continuities in "The Saved City."
"This book shows how civic life functioned in East Germany's second-largest city on the eve of the 1989 Revolution by uncovering illegal and semi-legal acts of 'urban ingenuity' amid catastrophic urban decay"--
9781501751677 9781501751684
2020004275
Urban renewal--Citizen participation.--Germany--Leipzig
Urban renewal--Political aspects--Germany--Leipzig.
Urban renewal--History--Germany--Leipzig--20th century.
Communism and architecture--Germany--Leipzig.
Architecture and state--Germany (East)
City planning--Political aspects--History--Germany--Leipzig--20th century.
Electronic Books.
DD901 / .B695 2020