Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- An introduction.Jasna Mariotti and Kadri Leetmaa -- PART IUrban planning, politics and power: relations in the periphery -- 1 Urbanising the Virgin Lands: at the frontier of Soviet socialist planningGianni Talamini -- 2 From Breslau to Wrocław. Urban development of the largest city of the Polish "Regained Lands" under socialismAgnieszka Tomaszewicz and Joanna Majczyk -- 3 Dreaming the Capital: architecture and urbanism as tools for planning the socialist BratislavaHenrieta Moravčíková, Peter Szalay and Laura Krišteková -- 4 The Yugoslav Skopje: building the brutalist city, 1970-1990Maja Babić -- 5 From reverse colonial trade to antiurbanismBudapest's frustrated urban renewal between 1950 and 1990 in the face of the Soviet world order's anomalous centre-periphery relations Daniel Kiss -- PART IIArchitects and urban planners in the socialist city: roles and positions in the periphery -- 6 Passive agents or genuine facilitators of citizen participation? …”

“…It allows the reader to «hear» elements of the soundscapes of Amsterdam, Dortmund, Lwów/Lviv, Warsaw and Breslau/Wrocław that are bound up with the traumatising experiences of violence, threats and death. …”