Strelka Talks. "From Welfare City to Neoliberal Utopia" by Michelle Provoost

Strelka Institute, Moscow
22 April 2013

FROM WELFARE CITY TO NEOLIBERAL UTOPIA
«From Welfare City to Neoliberal Utopia» is a talk by Michelle Provoost on evolution of utopian models for creating new cities. The speakers follows the shift from welfare state ideal focusing on social housing and public spaces to neoliberal utopia of privatized cities and its implication to citizens of the new towns.

http://www.strelka.com/content/michelle-provoost


ABOUT STRELKA TALKS
Strelka Talks is a new project launched by Strelka education team. Over the academic year prominent speakers from various fields are invited to make a 30 minute video talk on critically important topics concerning contemporary cities and urban development. After the video is upoloaded on the website and becomes available to the general public, the students get a chance to meet the speaker for a longer and more profound real time conversation at Strelka.Strelka Talks curator: Anastassia Smirnova
Project manager: Evgeniya Pospelova
Video director: Anna Titovets
Camera: Irina Goryainova, Fedor Glazachev

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