Review: Imagining Slovene Socialist Modernity: The Urban Redesign of Ljubljana’s Beloved Trnovo Neighborhood, 1951–1989

Book Review| March 01 2024 Review: Imagining Slovene Socialist Modernity: The Urban Redesign of Ljubljana's Beloved Trnovo Neighborhood, 1951–1989 Veronica E. Aplenc Imagining Slovene Socialist Modernity: The Urban Redesign of Ljubljana's Beloved Trnovo Neighborhood, 1951–1989 West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2023, 250 pp. , 60 b/w illus. 99. 99 (cloth), ISBN 9781612498126; 54. 99 (paper), ISBN 9781612498133 Brigitte Le Normand Brigitte Le Normand Maastricht University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (1): 114–115. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 114 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Imagining Slovene Socialist Modernity: The Urban Redesign of Ljubljana's Beloved Trnovo Neighborhood, 1951–1989. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2024; 83 (1): 114–115. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 114 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search With this concise study, Veronica E. Aplenc manages to provide a fresh take on a now well-established topic: city planning in state socialism. Whereas most scholars working in this area have argued for the centrality of the cities they study—whether because they are capitals, industrial centers, or paradigmatic cases of socialist modernity—Aplenc is not interested in Trnovo for its centrality. Trnovo was a small town that gradually became incorporated into the suburbs of Ljubljana, itself a city that was not particularly urbanized at the beginning of the 1950s. Yet Aplenc convincingly argues that we can learn a lot about socialist modernity and planning practices by looking at places like Trnovo. Aplenc is a folklorist by training, and for that reason, she is interested in looking at how socialist authorities treated places that did not fit with their ideas of modernity and, in turn, how locals and other actors articulated and. . . You do not currently have access to this content.