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The Afterlife of Utopia: Urban Renewal in Germany's Model Socialist City

by Samantha Maurer Fox
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781501785108
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press
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  • Pages: 246
  • Original Price: USD 145.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 504 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / Urban

In The Afterlife of Utopia, Samantha Maurer Fox traces the transformation of Eisenh�ttenstadt, East Germany's first planned socialist city, from a Cold War showcase to a paragon of sustainable shrinkage. Founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, the city was designed to embody socialist ideals. After German reunification, Eisenh�ttenstadt lost over half its population, shifting from a model city at the center of the Eastern Bloc to a shrinking city on the nation's periphery.

Fox portrays Eisenh�ttenstadt's story as reinvention rather than decline. Today, its restored center is Europe's largest protected historical site, reshaped by extensive demolition and renewal projects. Fox shows how these initiatives revived the city's original collectivist ideals, creatively reclaiming socialist heritage through an urban strategy unmatched in late industrial Europe. The Afterlife of Utopia explores what happens when grand ideological experiments outlive the regimes that built them, challenging assumptions about resilience, progress, and urban futurity.

Samantha Maurer Fox is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University. Her interdisciplinary research examines infrastructure, land use, and urban design in Germany and the United States.

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