Commons: Public Spaces After Socialism
Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York CityPlease join the East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute for a two day conference organized by Alan Timberlake and Angela Wheeler. For a century or more, citizens of the Eastern Bloc viewed public space as the primary setting for urban life. Socialist architects and planners envisioned common space as a transformative cultural force, deploying “social condensers” meant to…