@phdthesis{Ciesla,
  author    = {Ciesla, Agnieszka},
  title     = {"Shrinking city" in Eastern Germany. The Term in the context of urban development in Poland},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1869},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20130325-18694},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {170},
  abstract  = {The aim of this doctoral thesis was to investigate whether the German term "shrinking city" is appropriate to depopulating Polish cities. In order to do so an attempt to define the currently still vague notion of "shrinking city" was made. The urban development of Eastern Germany was thoroughly examined both in a short term perspective and in a wide historical as well as international context, with the Polish urban development used as reference. 25 cities (kreisfreie St{\"a}dte) in Eastern Germany and depopulating Polish cities: Ł{\´o}d{\'{z}} and the Metropolis Silesia were chosen as case studies. On the basis of the gathered information a "shrinking city" in Eastern Germany was defined as a city with a long-lasting population decrease coupled with over-dimensioned, growth-oriented development policies carried out for decades. Such a development path is triggering negative consequences in the spatial, economic and also demographic dimension, which tend to intensify each other. The thesis postulates that the definition of the "shrinking city in Eastern Germany" is not appropriate to depopulating cities in Poland. Polish cities are characterized by a short-lasting population decrease and this trend is not triggering negative spatial and economic consequences. Oversized growth development policies were never present in the cities and they still suffer from great deficiencies in housing and other basic infrastructure, which derive from the socialist period. Furthermore, radical de-economization, known from Eastern German cities, did not occur in the Polish cities. Both Ł{\´o}d{\'{z}} and the Metropolis Silesia remain main production centers of the country. This doctoral thesis presents a contradictory view to contemporary publications on "shrinking cities", in which this phenomenon is regarded as having occurred suddenly after the collapse of the socialism. It proved that "shrinking cities" in Eastern Germany are not the outcome of short-lasting processes, but are deeply rooted in the past. Moreover, they represent a very distinct development pattern that highly differentiates from the one found in Central Eastern Europe and the one in Western Europe. In this way the doctoral thesis provided a new, critical approach to the discourse on "shrinking cities" in Germany. It also draws attention to the importance of the historical analysis in cities' development research, particularly in cross border studies. In time of European integration peculiarities resulting from centuries of different spatial, economic and social development paths should not be underestimated.},
  subject      = {Stadtplanung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Ruhland,
  author    = {Ruhland, Grit},
  title     = {FOLGELANDSCHAFT. Eine Untersuchung der Auswirkungen des Uranbergbaus auf die Landschaft um Gera/Ronneburg.},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4495},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210906-44953},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {357},
  abstract  = {Das Kernthema dieser Arbeit ist die Besch{\"a}ftigung mit den Folgen des Uranbergbaus in dem Gebiet um die ehemalige Abbauregion der Wismut SAG/SDAG in Ronneburg (Ostth{\"u}ringen). Dieses Thema wird unter historischen, sozialen, kulturanthropologischen und k{\"u}nstlerischen Aspekten betrachtet und in den Zusammenhang mit den weltweiten Voraussetzungen der Nuklearindustrie und Auswirkungen des Uranbergbaus und seiner Folgen gestellt. Die Arbeit legt dar, wie eine Uranbergbaufolgelandschaft entsteht und welches Wissen ist f{\"u}r ein angemessenes Verst{\"a}ndnis des Ph{\"a}nomens wichtig ist. Es wird untersucht, ob Kunst bez{\"u}glich der Uranbergbaufolgelandschaft einen relevanten Beitrag leisten kann bzw. in welcher Form dies versucht wurde, bzw. stellte Arbeiten vor, die verwandete Themen bearbeitet haben. In Kombination dieser beiden Hauptaspekte geht die Arbeit der Frage nach, welche Faktoren die Uranbergbaufolgelandschaft pr{\"a}gen und ob es sinnvolle Beteiligungsfelder f{\"u}r k{\"u}nstlerisches Forschen oder Handeln gibt sowie welche Bedingungen hierf{\"u}r erf{\"u}llt werdenm{\"u}ssten. Die Kernthese der Arbeit ist, dass k{\"u}nstlerische Arbeiten im Themenfeld des Uranbergbaus unter bestimmten Bedingungen relevante Beitr{\"a}ge leisten k{\"o}nnen.},
  subject      = {Uranbergbau},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Arzmi,
  author    = {Arzmi, Azmah},
  title     = {Reinterpreting Marzahn, Berlin \& Petržalka, Bratislava: From Process of State Socialist Utopia to Utopia of State Capitalist Process},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4392},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210315-43927},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {Housing estates were fundamentally conceived upon state socialist utopia ideas to provide standard housing for citizens. While former state socialist housing estates have been extensively researched in the field of architecture, urban and sociology studies, there is still a gap in identifying how production processes affect morphological changes during the post-socialist era. This thesis compares the processes in the production of the largest housing estates of Marzahn in GDR and Petržalka in Czechoslovakia from 1970 to 1989 through contextual analysis of primary and secondary sources, which include visual maps, diagrams from professional architecture and planning journals, government documents and textbooks, as well as academic journals, books and newspaper articles. Then it discusses how these processes inadvertently created conducive conditions affecting their development in the market economy after 1989. It then interprets the results through application of Actor-Network Theory and Historical Institutionalism, while conceptualising them through David Harvey's dialectical utopianism theory. Harvey (2000) delineates two types of utopia, one of spatial form and one of process. The former refers to materialised ideals in physical forms whereas the latter refers to the ongoing process of spatializing. The thesis aims to show how the production of Marzahn in GDR was more path dependent on policies established in 1950s and 1960s whereas Petržalka was a product of new Czechoslovakian policies in 1970s, changing aspects of the urban planning process, a manifestation of a more emphatic technocratic thinking on a wider scale. This ultimately influences the trajectories of development after 1989, showing more effects in Petržalka.},
  subject      = {Kulturerbe},
  language  = {en}
}