Geography 2060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sergey Sobyanin, Earthscan, Political Correctness
7 Feb 2017
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You will say that tashkent is not in eastern europe; and you are absolutely right. Tashkent was rebuilt, in many parts, after an earthquake; and the rebuilding was done by the. Soviets, driven by the russians and eastern europeans. That is the point about the eastern european city. They began their genesis as capitalist places, but they came under the influence of communism. That ideology added some of the feature we have grown to recognize as being typically eastern european. A quick look at tashkent to see the influence of communism on a city; this one happens to be an islamic city and is a large industrial city. So here, we have contrast between islamic and russian forms of urbanization. The city is an oasis in a dessert and it is prone to earthquakes. The city inherited problems from the soviets: dire housing shortages + overcrowding.
