Mapping Visaginas. Sources of Urbanity in a Former Mono-functional Town

Book excerpt: Mapping Visaginas is the second book in a series promoting Critical Urbanism as a way of analyzing the changing relationships between citizens, the state and the international context in shaping urban spaces in Central- and Eastern Europe. In this participatory research into the former mono-functional nuclear town of Visaginas in the East of Lithuania, we used mapping as a process-oriented technique to explore sources of urbanity. The book was edited by the Laboratory of Critical Urbanism at the European Humanities University in Vilnius. Among the authors are Felix Ackermann, Anja Baniewicz, Svetlana Boguslavskaya, Aleksandr Chaplya, Dalia Ciupailaite, Benjamin Cope, Oksana Denisenko, Marija Dremaite, Leonard Ermel, Valiantsina Fashchanka, Inga Freimane, Gerrit Fussel, Anna-Luise Goetze, Yves Haltner, Afra Hock, Miodrag Kuc, Arne Kunkel, Siarhei Liubimau, Terezie Loksova, Povilas Marozas, Gintare Norkunaite, Galina Orlova, Sibylle Piechaczek, Alla Pigalskaya, Diana Poskiene, Ida Roscher, Indre Ruseckaite, Indre Saladzinskaite, Anika Schmidt, Simone Scholer, Steffen Schumann, Viktoryia Stalybka, Paule Stulginskaite, Hanna Tsimoshyna, Vytautas Valatka, Joachim Werner, Anna Veronika Wendland, Rugile Zadeikyte