In the Western Balkans, one can still find many city enlargements produced in era of socialist Yugoslavia. There is a renewed interest by architectural historians and critics Yugoslavia's production between 1948 1980. However, more remarkably, we images former urban utopias back recent music videos, especially rap where it serves as backdrop to an unusual mix violence, drugs, sex, religion, dan...

In the last thirty years, questions about future of urban development have been discussed in world. Global agents and organizations (the World Bank, UN) set vectors planning policy goals for cities around The role state management is changing. There a transition from regulation to "management", which includes new subjects process: investors, businesses, citizens. transformation models explained...

The Chinese household registration system (hukou), which divides the population into "agricultural" and "nonagricultural" sectors, may be the most important determinant of differential privileges in state socialist China, determining access to good jobs, education for one's children, housing, health care, and even the right to move to a city. Transforming one's hukou status from rural to urban ...

This paper discusses both textual and structural legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music since the collapse of socialism and Yugoslavia. Yugoslav socialism struggled to reconcile socialist consciousness and capitalist consumerism, forcing the producers of popular culture to make sense of the political  eld that surrounded them and put ideology into practice. The structural conditions o...

We study the following problem: party A’s secret input is a, party B ’s secret input is b, and party C ’s input is empty; they want to know if a = b with restriction that A and B should not learn anything more than what is implied by their secret inputs and the comparison result, and C should not learn anything about a or b except if a = b. This problem can be seen as a variant of the socialist...

The article analyzes the image of “socialist cities” Kharkiv (“New Kharkiv”) and Zaporizhzhia (“Sixth Village”) on pages city guidebooks in second half XX – early XXI centuries. It is concluded that images have a similar set markers. Both are built next to iconic industrial enterprises (KhTP, DniproHES), accordance with new principles urban planning. Life these cities contributed establishment ...