Tsypylma Darieva & Wolfgang Kaschuba 
Urban Spaces after Socialism [PDF ebook] 
Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities

Contents
Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………..7
Sights and Signs of Postsocialist Urbanism in Eurasia:
An Introduction …………………………………………………………………………9
Tsypylma Darieva and Wolfgang Kaschuba
Part I: Contours and Places
Grandeur and Decay of the ‚Soviet Byzantium‘:
Spaces, Peoples and Memories of Tashkent, Uzbekistan…………………..33
Artyom Kosmarski
The Second City as the First City:
The Development of Gyumri from an Anthropological Perspective …..57
Gayane Shagoyan
Tbilisi in City-Maps:
Symbolic Construction of an Urban Landscape……………………………..81
Madlen Pilz
Maiden Tower Goes International?
Representing Baku in a Global World ………………………………………..107
Melanie Krebs
Yerevan Sacra: Old and New Sacred Centers in the Urban Space …….131
Levon Abrahamian
A ‚Remarkable Gift‘ in a Postcolonial City:
The Past and Present of the Baku Promenade ……………………………..153
Tsypylma Darieva
Part II: Places and Voices
Every City Has the Flea Market it Deserves:
The Phenomenon of Urban Flea Markets in St. Petersburg …………….181
Oleg Pachenkov
Why are the Dolls Laughing?
Tbilisi between Intelligentsia Culture and Socialist Labor ……………..207
Zaza Shatirishvili and Paul Manning
Between the Center of Jazz and the Capital of Muslim
Culture: Insights into Baku’s Public and Everyday Life………………….227
Sergey Rumyansev and Sevil Huseynova
Gay Culture and Public Places in Tbilisi …………………………………….247
Shorena Gabunia
Thee Exoticism and Eroticism of the City:
The ‚kinto‘ and his City ………………………………………………………….261
Paul Manning and Zaza Shatirishvili
‚Nested Globalization‘ in Osh, Kyrgyzstan:
Urban Youth Culture in a ‚Southern‘ City………………………………….283
Stefan B. Kirmse
Afterword for Urban (post)Socialisms…………………………………………307
Alaina Lemon
Notes on Contributors …………………………………………………………….315
Index of Names and Places ……………………………………………………….321

Wolfgang Kaschuba, Prof. Dr., ist Leiter des SFB 640 »Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel« an der Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin, Tsypylma Darieva ist Associate Professor of Anthropology an der Tsukaba- Universität, Japan, Melanie Krebs, Dr. des.,
ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin am SFB 640.