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*ZAPLETALOVÁ, A. V. J. (without date). [http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/mon/2010/ppn%20622880632.pdf#page=15 GEOGRAPHY OF THE CZECH BORDERLAND]. DISCUSSION PAPERS Special, 15. | *ZAPLETALOVÁ, A. V. J. (without date). [http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/mon/2010/ppn%20622880632.pdf#page=15 GEOGRAPHY OF THE CZECH BORDERLAND]. DISCUSSION PAPERS Special, 15. | ||
*Roseland, M. (2000). Sustainable community development: integrating environmental, economic, and social objectives. Progress in Planning, 54(2), 73–132. | *Roseland, M. (2000). Sustainable community development: integrating environmental, economic, and social objectives. Progress in Planning, 54(2), 73–132. | ||
*Glassheim, E. (2006). [http://www.czp.cuni.cz/vcsewiki/images/9/92/Ethnic_cleansing%2C_Communism_%26_Environmental_Devastation.pdf Ethnic Cleansing, Communism, and Environmental Devastation in Czechoslovakia’s Borderlands, 1945–1989]. The Journal of Modern History 78: 65–92<br> | *Glassheim, E. (2006). [http://www.czp.cuni.cz/vcsewiki/images/9/92/Ethnic_cleansing%2C_Communism_%26_Environmental_Devastation.pdf Ethnic Cleansing, Communism, and Environmental Devastation in Czechoslovakia’s Borderlands, 1945–1989]. The Journal of Modern History 78: 65–92<br> | ||
Glassheim look critically at the expulsion of the Czech inhabitants of the border regions by the Nazis in the late 1930s and the consequent resettlement of the former Sudetenland following the war. He then analyses the construction of a new regional identity under the communist regime based on satisfying the needs of the new 'socialist man' and an economy based on heavy industry and the consequent need for coal to fuel growth, and finally he looks at the consequences for the environment and resettlement resulting from the destruction of town and villages to extract the coal beneath. | |||
*Glassheim, E. (2007). [http://www.czp.cuni.cz/vcsewiki/images/8/88/Most%2C_the_Town_that_Moved.pdf Most, the Town that Moved: Coal, Communists and the ʻGypsy Questionʼ in Post-War Czechoslovakia] Environment and History 13: 447–76.<br> | *Glassheim, E. (2007). [http://www.czp.cuni.cz/vcsewiki/images/8/88/Most%2C_the_Town_that_Moved.pdf Most, the Town that Moved: Coal, Communists and the ʻGypsy Questionʼ in Post-War Czechoslovakia] Environment and History 13: 447–76.<br> | ||
As Czechoslovakiaʼs communist planners continually increased norms for power and coal production in the 1950s through 1970s, the sprawling surface mines of the north Bohemian brown coal basin expanded voraciously, swallowing 116 villages and parts of several larger cities by 1980. Infamously, the entire historic centre of Most was obliterated in order to expose over 85 million tons of coal. Planners envisioned a new city of Most as a model of socialist modernity. Deriding Mostʼs old town as a decaying capitalist relic, officials lauded New Mostʼs spacious and efficient prefabricated high-rises. Adding to the contrast, the majority of Old Mostʼs remaining inhabitants by 1970 were Roma (Gypsies). For communists, the Roma evoked an old order of segregation, class oppression and bad hygiene. By relocating Roma to modern housing, they could ʻliquidate once and for all the Gypsy problemʼ. This article examines the rhetorics of modernity employed as communists sought to ʻsolveʼ intertwined coal, gypsy and housing ʻproblemsʼ in the city of Most. At the crossroads of several related modernising projects in the twentieth century, Most provides insight into connections between ethnic cleansing, social and environmental engineering and urban planning.<br><br> | As Czechoslovakiaʼs communist planners continually increased norms for power and coal production in the 1950s through 1970s, the sprawling surface mines of the north Bohemian brown coal basin expanded voraciously, swallowing 116 villages and parts of several larger cities by 1980. Infamously, the entire historic centre of Most was obliterated in order to expose over 85 million tons of coal. Planners envisioned a new city of Most as a model of socialist modernity. Deriding Mostʼs old town as a decaying capitalist relic, officials lauded New Mostʼs spacious and efficient prefabricated high-rises. Adding to the contrast, the majority of Old Mostʼs remaining inhabitants by 1970 were Roma (Gypsies). For communists, the Roma evoked an old order of segregation, class oppression and bad hygiene. By relocating Roma to modern housing, they could ʻliquidate once and for all the Gypsy problemʼ. This article examines the rhetorics of modernity employed as communists sought to ʻsolveʼ intertwined coal, gypsy and housing ʻproblemsʼ in the city of Most. At the crossroads of several related modernising projects in the twentieth century, Most provides insight into connections between ethnic cleansing, social and environmental engineering and urban planning.<br><br> | ||
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