TY - THES A1 - Steiner, Marion T1 - Die chilenische Steckdose. Kleine Weltgeschichte der deutschen Elektrifizierung von Valparaíso und Santiago, 1880-1920 N2 - Am Beispiel der Elektrifizierung zweier Großstädte an der Westküste Südamerikas zeigt die Arbeit den globalen Einfluss deutscher Industrie- und Finanzakteure auf technische, städtebauliche und gesellschaftlich-kulturelle Entwicklungen zur Blütezeit des europäischen Imperialismus auf. Damit werden die Regionalgeschichten der chilenischen Hauptstadtregion und der Elektropolis Berlin zu einer Globalgeschichte miteinander verknüpft. Ein Hauptaugenmerk der Analyse liegt dabei auf den weltweiten Akteursnetzwerken und Machtverhältnissen sowie dem kulturellen Erbe und seiner gegenwärtigen Interpretation. N2 - Resumen. Tomando como ejemplo la electrificación de dos grandes ciudades en la costa oeste de Sudamérica, la tesis muestra la influencia global de actores industriales y financieros alemanes en el desarrollo técnico, urbano y sociocultural en el apogeo del imperialismo europeo. De esta manera, las historias regionales del centro urbano de Chile y la Electrópolis Berlín se unen para formar una historia global. El análisis se centra en las redes mundiales de actores y las relaciones de poder, así como en el patrimonio cultural y su interpretación actual. N2 - Abstract. Using the example of the electrification of two large cities on the South American west coast, the thesis shows the global influence of German industrial and financial actors on technical, urban and socio-cultural developments at the heyday of European imperialism. In this way, the regional histories of Chile’s capital region and the Elektropolis Berlin are linked to form a global history. The analysis focuses on the worldwide actor networks and power relations as well as on the cultural heritage and its current interpretation. KW - Weltgeschichte KW - Stadtforschung KW - Elektrifizierung KW - Infrastruktur KW - Kulturerbe KW - Globalgeschichte KW - Infrastrukturgeschichte KW - Valparaíso KW - Wirtschaftsimperialismus KW - Technikgeschichte KW - Industriekultur KW - Stadtentwicklung KW - Elektropolis Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190517-39257 ER - TY - THES A1 - Arzmi, Azmah T1 - Reinterpreting Marzahn, Berlin & Petržalka, Bratislava: From Process of State Socialist Utopia to Utopia of State Capitalist Process N2 - 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. KW - Kulturerbe KW - state socialist utopia KW - centralized planning KW - GDR KW - Czechoslovakia KW - mass housing estates Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210315-43927 ER -