Introduction: Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms
Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Douglas Young

Part 1: Housing Experiences and Life Trajectories

1. From Socialist Moderns to Urban Poor: Gender and the Housing Question in Post-Reform Vinh City
Christina Schwenkel

2. From ABC to Post-Industrial Suburb: Living in a Vision
Bo Larsson (Translated from Swedish by Aidan Allen)

3. The Rise and Fall of Collective Housing: Hanoi between Vision and Decision
Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Nguyen Thanh Binh

4. Wrestling with the Soviet State: A Life History of Housing in Leningrad
Thomas Borén and Michael Gentile

Part 2: Planning and Architecture: Designing Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms

5. Only Visions: The Case of South City, Prague
Steven Logan

6. Phnom Penh During and after Socialism: Permanence and Reshaping of the Urban Centrality
Gabriel Fauveaud

7. Planning for "Renaissance": Vanguard Urbanism in Addis Ababa
Jesse McClelland

8. Recuperate, Recycle, Reuse: Adaptive Solutions for the Socialist Architecture of Bucharest
Laura Visan

9. The Paradox of Preserving Modernism: Heritage Debates at Alexanderplatz, Berlin
Markus Kip and Douglas Young

Part 3: Governance and Social Order

10. China’s "New" Socialist City: From Red Aesthetics to Standard Urban Governance
Carolyn Cartier

11. Property Relations and the Politics of the Suburban Living Place in the Post-Communist City: Transition Stories from Tirana, Albania
Marcela Mele and Andrew E.G. Jonas

12. Urban Natures in Managua, Nicaragua
Laura Shillington

13. The Reshaping of Post-Socialist H¿ Chí Minh City: Leisure Practices and Social Control
Marie Gibert and Emmanuelle Peyvel

14. Mapping Khujand: The Governance of Spatial Representation in Post-Socialist Tajikistan
Wladimir Sgibnev

Conclusion
Douglas Young and Lisa B. Welch Drummond

Contributors