The Afterlife of Utopia Nobuhiro Honda Within this compendium of photographs

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while retaining their citizenship

luminous spectrum of the world

Exile and displacement are accepted as permanent conditions

The Afterlife of Utopia Nobuhiro Honda Within this compendium of photographsIn The Afterlife of Utopia, Samantha Maurer Fox traces the transformation of Eisenhuettenstadt, East Germany's first planned socialist city, from a Cold War showcase to a paragon of sustainable shrinkage. Founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, the city was designed to embody socialist ideals. After German reunification, Eisenhuettenstadt lost over half its population, shifting from a model city at the center of the Eastern Bloc to a shrinking city on the