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Four women at the top: The self-image and media representation of female leaders in Soviet and Post-Soviet Estonian architecture

open access: yesCidades, Comunidades e Território, 2022
Focusing on four case studies of high-ranking Estonian architects, the article analyses the career goals and possibilities for advancement of women in design in the Soviet and the post-Soviet periods.
Ingrid Ruudi
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Post-Socialist Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Century: Regional Development and Economic Inequality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The evolution of socio-economic systems is non-linear, it includes both the periods of smooth changes and subsequent abrupt transformational leaps. The overall structure of new prospects opens as early as at the stage of emerging evolutionary processes ...
Akaev, A. A.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Chisinau architecture of the post-soviet period

open access: yesAkademos, 2023
The buildings constructed in Chisinau after year 1991 propose a diversified architecture. The stylistic range is quite various: neoclassicism, modernism, postmodernism, high-tech, deconstructivism, neominimalism, brutalism, etc. The influence of neoclassical architecture is felt upon the multistory building of S.A.
openaire   +1 more source

Exploring the Soviet 'Golden Home' Project

open access: yesDocomomo Journal, 2022
Post-1945 buildings in the Baltic States are quite unpopular, not only because they were built during the widely-despised Soviet occupation regime, but also since most of these buildings are seen as irrationally large and sloppily built, and burden ...
Mart Kalm
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The Language of Mass Architectural Postmodernity

open access: yesМісто: історія, культура, суспільство, 2022
Setting itself off against the architecture of the capitalist West, allegedly tangled in styles, Soviet architecture claimed its origins in the social realm. If one is to trace the intrinsic nature of changes in the architecture of the 1980s in the USSR,
Dimitrij Zadorin
doaj   +1 more source

War as a Challenge to Architecture. Andrei Burov's Civic Designs at the Time of World War II [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The development of wartime technologies had a stimulating effect on architecture in Europe and the United States. The war left its traces not just in the shape of heavy edifices such as bunkers, or fortifications like the Atlantic Wall or monuments like ...
Dmitrieva-Einhorn, Marina
core   +1 more source

Is quinoa‐farming sustainable in marginal environments? Social, economical and environmental aspects

open access: yesJournal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is an Andean grain crop introduced as a novel crop to many parts of the world in recent years. Recognized for nutritious seeds and high abiotic stress tolerance, it has been promoted as an element of climate‐resilient agriculture, particularly in marginal environments.
Anna Tabea Mengen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Broken avant-garde movement. Reinterpretation of russian avant-garde ideas in contemporary architecture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the modern architecture of Russia, there is a shortage of morphological ideas associated with the loss of identity. Is it possible to revive the architecture of the avant-garde of the 1920s in order to find a vector for the further development of the ...
Tokmacheva, Nataliya
core   +1 more source

An unfolding signifier: London's Baltic Exchange in Tallinn [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In the summer of 2007 an unusual cargo arrived at Muuga and Paldiski harbors outside Tallinn. It consisted of nearly 50 containers holding over 1,000 tons of building material ranging from marble columns, staircases and fireplaces, to sculpted ...
Alas J   +32 more
core   +1 more source

Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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