From Socialist Industrial Rhythms To The Timescapes Of Contemporary (Postsocialist) City
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The paper treats postsocialist urban transition as a multiple urban change which modifies substantially not only the internal spatial configuration of the city, but also its timescape. Relatively uniform and collectively perceived temporal landscape of socialist industrialism is compared to much more dispersed and overlapping rhythms of postsocialist urban timescapes. New pacemakers and shifts of individual rhythms result in re-configuration of networks formerly consisting of typical activities at typical places in typical times. There are new emerging time-spaces of postsocialism and postindustrialism overlaying or merging with the old timescapes and their rhythms. The concept of chronotope is introduced to describe the changing spatiality and imagination of daily temporal organization of the city; the concept is employed to structure the urban landscape in segments with distinct perceived/represented temporality. |
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