Introduction: the ‘Second World's’ architecture and planning in the ‘Third World’
Introduction: the ‘Second World's’ architecture and planning in the ‘Third World’
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10.1080/13602365.2012.692597
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2012-06
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Łukasz Stanek
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© 2012 The Journal of Architecture 1360-2365 http://dx. doi. org/10.1080/13602365.2012. 692597 these countries working in the Middle East, Africa and Asia in the 1970s and 1980s. Fourth, the essays discuss the roles of architecture in a Cold War context by complementing the attention paid to the self-presentation of the two systems—with East and West Berlin and international exhibitions as favourite examples4—with the focus on architecture’s performance in alternative scenarios of modernisation, the distribution of welfare, the definition of national identity, and production knowledge about processes of urbanisation. Finally, rather than celebrating the end of the Cold War in its own discourse—that is to say as the victory of the ‘free world’over its dark ‘other’—many papers in this volume introduce a more nuanced assessment of socialist-inspired modernisation processes and signal how the expert culture emerging in the second half of the twentieth century continues to influence current processes of urbanisation in the ‘Global South’and their material, representational and institutional conditions.Competition and collaboration The paradox underlying the case studies presented in this volume is that while the concept of the ‘Third World’was introduced in the early 1950s in order to designate countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America which presumably were not part of the East-West competition, these countries very soon became important actors in the ‘Global Cold War’. 5 Military, economic and technological modernisation were essential means in this confrontation, with the ‘First World’, the United States and Western Europe, and the ‘Second World’, the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, allocating significant resources in