Socialist cities were assigned a vital role in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Their establish... more Socialist cities were assigned a vital role in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Their establishment was primarily due to accelerated industrialisation designed to enhance the economic and political strength of the communist system worldwide. In addition, they were also to function as communist melting pots, providing inspiring spaces for the emergence of the archetype of the new socialist man and its model community. It is not surprising that socialist cities were fundamentally shaken by the change of the political system in the 1990s, which challenged their relation to industrialisation and the industrial heritage. Through the case study of two socialist cities in Hungary, Ózd and Dunaújváros (the latter formerly called Sztálinváros, Stalin-City), the paper aims to present the wavering evaluation of the industrial heritage over the three decades following the regime change and showcase how its various values became finally accommodated in the transformation of the cities. In Ózd,...
Munkás - kultúra - örökség : munkások a rendszerváltás előtt és után Kelet-Közép-Európában és Magyarországon , 2020
Protecting the cultural heritage of industrialisation, a major stage of human history observed ov... more Protecting the cultural heritage of industrialisation, a major stage of human history observed over the past two centuries, should be a high priority for modern societies in order to comprehend their own formation.
However, in Hungary, industrial heritage, especially that of the state socialist era, has been poorly represented in the cultural heritage of the country. Analysing industrial heritage preservation in Hungary in comparison with the Dublin Principles, the Joint ICOMOS - TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage, as well as with recent developments in the field in some East-Central European countries, this deficiency is especially remarkable.
There can be no doubt that the preservation of the industrial heritage in Hungary has been substantially determined by the specifities of the country’s history, namely, deindustrialisation coincided with the rapid process of regime change and privatisation. As a consequence, the scarcity of preserved industrial heritage originating in recent historical changes deprives contemporary Hungarian society of proper self-understanding.
Socialist cities were assigned a vital role in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Their establish... more Socialist cities were assigned a vital role in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Their establishment was primarily due to accelerated industrialisation designed to enhance the economic and political strength of the communist system worldwide. In addition, they were also to function as communist melting pots, providing inspiring spaces for the emergence of the archetype of the new socialist man and its model community. It is not surprising that socialist cities were fundamentally shaken by the change of the political system in the 1990s, which challenged their relation to industrialisation and the industrial heritage. Through the case study of two socialist cities in Hungary, Ózd and Dunaújváros (the latter formerly called Sztálinváros, Stalin-City), the paper aims to present the wavering evaluation of the industrial heritage over the three decades following the regime change and showcase how its various values became finally accommodated in the transformation of the cities. In Ózd,...
Munkás - kultúra - örökség : munkások a rendszerváltás előtt és után Kelet-Közép-Európában és Magyarországon , 2020
Protecting the cultural heritage of industrialisation, a major stage of human history observed ov... more Protecting the cultural heritage of industrialisation, a major stage of human history observed over the past two centuries, should be a high priority for modern societies in order to comprehend their own formation.
However, in Hungary, industrial heritage, especially that of the state socialist era, has been poorly represented in the cultural heritage of the country. Analysing industrial heritage preservation in Hungary in comparison with the Dublin Principles, the Joint ICOMOS - TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage, as well as with recent developments in the field in some East-Central European countries, this deficiency is especially remarkable.
There can be no doubt that the preservation of the industrial heritage in Hungary has been substantially determined by the specifities of the country’s history, namely, deindustrialisation coincided with the rapid process of regime change and privatisation. As a consequence, the scarcity of preserved industrial heritage originating in recent historical changes deprives contemporary Hungarian society of proper self-understanding.
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However, in Hungary, industrial heritage, especially that of the state socialist era, has been poorly represented in the cultural heritage of the country. Analysing industrial heritage preservation in Hungary in comparison with the Dublin Principles, the Joint ICOMOS - TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage, as well as with recent developments in the field in some East-Central European countries, this deficiency is especially remarkable.
There can be no doubt that the preservation of the industrial heritage in Hungary has been substantially determined by the specifities of the country’s history, namely, deindustrialisation coincided with the rapid process of regime change and privatisation. As a consequence, the scarcity of preserved industrial heritage originating in recent historical changes deprives contemporary Hungarian society of proper self-understanding.
However, in Hungary, industrial heritage, especially that of the state socialist era, has been poorly represented in the cultural heritage of the country. Analysing industrial heritage preservation in Hungary in comparison with the Dublin Principles, the Joint ICOMOS - TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage, as well as with recent developments in the field in some East-Central European countries, this deficiency is especially remarkable.
There can be no doubt that the preservation of the industrial heritage in Hungary has been substantially determined by the specifities of the country’s history, namely, deindustrialisation coincided with the rapid process of regime change and privatisation. As a consequence, the scarcity of preserved industrial heritage originating in recent historical changes deprives contemporary Hungarian society of proper self-understanding.