Urban Eurasia. Cities in transformation - Softcover

Urban Eurasia. Cities in Transformation is a journey to urban spaces, places, and people in the global and highly dynamic, but often forgotten region between Europe and Asia. Intriguing photo-graphs and evidence-based reports give a nuanced account to experiences of urban change in cities of the post-Soviet countries. Focusing on the topics of cit-ies and networks, urban housing, econ-omies as well as urban diversity and conflicts, the book tracks common and differentiated patterns, processes, and effects of urban developments in space and society. The multiplicity and assem-blage of Soviet, pre-revolutionary and post-Soviet legacies is carved out as a key feature of Eurasian cities. Thanks to fascinating documents, the editors hope to stimulate critical discussions besides and beyond the rare media reports about urban transformation in Eurasian cities.

Isolde Brade, born in 1955, studied geography at the Martin Luther University in Halle. Doctoral thesis on structural problems in urban areas of the GDR, in 1982. Scientifi c assistant at the Handelshochschule in Leipzig, from 1982 to 1992. Senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, since 1993. Initiator and director of numerous comparative international research projects on the transformation of urban regions in the European and Eurasian post-Socialist space. Carola S. Neugebauer, born in 1980, studied landscape architecture at the Dresden Technical University and the École Nationale Supérieure in Versailles. Doctoral thesis on the management of theUNESCOWorld Heritage label for sustainable urban development, research on German and Russian examples, in 2014. Scientifi c assistant at the Leibniz InstitutesIÖR(Dresden) and Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Leipzig), from 2005 to 2014. Junior professorship at theRWTH Aachen since 2014; Member of the Young College of the North Rhine-Westfalian Academy of Sciences and Arts, since 2016. Initiator and participation in interdisciplinary, international research on urban transformations in Central and Eastern Europe with the focus on planning and control as well as cultural heritage.