#books #townplanning | Modeling post-socialist urbanization : the case of Budapest

Modeling post-socialist urbanization : the case of Budapest / Daniel Kiss.
Basel : Birkhgäuser, 2019.
206 p. : il.
ISBN 9783035616460
/ EN / Libros / Budapest / Urbanismo – Hungría
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4(439) MOD
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1083633421

[.en] The author examines the urban development of Budapest from 1990 to 2010. This period is characterized by the significant decline in communally town planning: given the structural legacies of socialist urbanization, the decentralization of government and resources, and the impact of a post-socialist culture struggle, a trend is being analyzed in which nebulous competencies lead to unclear and thus to a failure of higher-level planning. The ensuing consequence is an increase in large, investment-driven projects: it is characteristic of these privately financed projects that they do not submit to higher level control, in particular when these control bodies are rather weak. This model-based analysis presents the phenomenon as exemplary of the development in post-socialist cities.

#books #architecture | Motherland and progress : Hungarian architecture and design 1800-1900

Motherland and progress : Hungarian architecture and design 1800-1900 / József Sisa (ed.).
Birkhäuser, Basel : 2016.
996 p. : il. / Bibliogr.: pp. 889-940.
ISBN 9783035610093
Arquitectura -- Siglo XIX -- Hungría.
Diseño interior.
Urbanismo -- Hungría.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.035 MOT
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1870959~S1*spi

In the 19th century Hungary witnessed unprecedented social, economic and cultural development. The country became an equal partner within the Dual Monarchy when the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 was concluded. Architecture and all forms of design flourished as never before. A distinctly Central European taste emerged, in which the artistic presence of the German-speaking lands was augmented by the influence of France and England. As this process unfolded, attempts were made to find a uniquely Hungarian form, based on motifs borrowed from peasant art as well as real (or fictitious) historical antecedents. "Motherland and Progress" – the motto of 19th-century Hungarian reformers – reflected the programme embraced by the country in its drive to define its identity and shape its future.