If Cars Could Walk

Ger Duijzings is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universität Regensburg. He has done extensive research on the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and is currently studying urban transformations in post-socialist cities. His publications include Global Villages: Rural and Urban Transformations in Contemporary Bulgaria (Anthem, 2013) and, along with Ben Campkin, the co-edited volume Engaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies (I.B. Tauris, 2016).

Introduction

Ger Duijzings and Tauri Tuvikene



Chapter 1. Seven Imaginary Images of the Transition of GDR Streets, 1989–1995

Kurt Möser



Chapter 2. Liberated or Lawless? Social Life on Prishtina’s Postwar Streets

Rita Gagica and Ger Duijzings



Chapter 3. ‘Changing Everything Fast’? Young Men in the Streets of Tbilisi

Costanza Curro



Chapter 4. Coproducing the Car and the Stratified Street: Automobility and Space in Russia

Jeremy Morris



Chapter 5. Bucharest’s Centura: Encircling a City in Transformation

Ger Duijzings



Chapter 6. Pedestrianizing Moscow: Disparities Between the Centre and the Inner Periphery

Sabina Maslova and Tauri Tuvikene



Chapter 7. Between Non-place and Public Space: Life at a Postsocialist (Trolley)Bus Stop

Andrey Vozyanov



Chapter 8. Where the Streets Have No Name: Toponymic Changes, Wayfinding and Tashkent’s System of Orientiry

Nikolaos Olma



Chapter 9. No Future Without a Motorway Exit: Roadside Communities in Postsocialist Poland – the case of Torzym

Agata Stanisz



Conclusion

Ger Duijzings and Tauri Tuvikene



Postscripts

No Alternative to the Car; Or: What Remained of Socialism after 1989/91?

 Luminita Gatejel



Periodization, Postsocialism and the Directionally Challenged

 Joshua Hotaka Roth



‘Where is the Postsocialism Here?’

Peter Norton