Re-Centring the City: Urban Mutations, Socialist Afterlives and the Global East (FRINGE)

CONTENTS
Introduction: Notes towards a political morphology of undead urban forms

PART I. Moscow, point of dePARTure
1. Centre and periphery: a personal journey
2. Fortress city: the hegemony of the Moscow Kremlin and the consequences and challenges of developing a modern city around a medieval walled fortress
3. Appropriating Stalinist heritage: state rhetoric and urban transformation in the repurposing of VDNKh
4. The city without a centre: disurbanism and communism revisited
5. Mutant centralities: Moscow architecture in the post-Soviet era

II. Off centre: palatial peripheries
6. Berlin’s empty centre: a double take
7. Phantom palaces: Prussian centralities, and Humboldtian spectres
8. Palatial socialism, or (still-)socialist centrality in Warsaw

PART III. Looking inward: re-centring the sacred
9. The Architecture of the Seventh Day: building the sacred in socialist Poland
10. Post-shtetl: spectral transformations and architectural challenges in the periphery’s bloodstream
11. Eat, pray, shop! The mosque as centrum in the Swedish suburbs

PART IV. Looking upward: power verticals
12. Verticality and centrality: the politics of contemporary skyscrapers
13. PARTitioning earth and sky: vertical urbanism in post-socialist Mumbai
14. Vertical horizons: the shadow of The Shard

PART V. Looking outward: hinterlands, diffusions, explosions
15. New geographies of hinterland
16. De-escalating the centre: urban futures and special economic zones beyond poststructuralism’s neoliberal imaginations
17. Explosion, response, aftermath

PART VI. Things fall: (after)lives of monumentality
18. Domestic monumentality: scales of relationship in the modern city
19. On an alleged thought of inflicting harm on a Lenin statue
20. We’re losing him! On monuments to Lenin, and the cult of demolition in present-day Ukraine
Index