Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 6. (Budapest, 2011)

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Abstracts

MÁRKUS KELLER

The Óbuda Experimental Housing Estate and Kádárist modernity

This first stage of a wider research project explores what the socialist government at the turn of the nineteen sixties and seventies regarded as the proper socialist way of life, and how it wanted to reform it. The Óbuda Experimental Housing Estate was one of the possibilities considered by the authorities. The plans and the buildings themselves clearly betray their origins in modem architectural thinking, indeed even the design competition conditions could have been derived from the principles of architectural modernity. What is also certain is that the housing estate met the international standards of the time in terms of design, if not in technical implementation. We cannot, however, use the term “Kádárist” modernism, because the theoretical concept was drawn up and even published in 1955. This if further proof that political eras do not always fit questions of social history, and that the roots of “Kádárism” go much further into the Rákosi Era than is often assumed.

ZSUZSÁNNA ÚJLAKI PONGRÁCZ-PAULA ZSIDI

Historical townscape study by archaeological methods: Aquincum, the Roman precursor of Budapest - urban archaeology and official protection of monuments

Protecting the archaeological heritage is particularly problematic in urban areas, especially historic town cores. The ten year-old Hungarian law on protection of the heritage has been amended several times, but the clauses designed to protect archaeological sites still reflect the widely-accepted international norms. These norms can only be enforced through cooperation between historic protection experts, architects and developers.

The official means of archaeological heritage protection, especially in cities, are necessarily defensive. The involve identification, evaluation and recording of the archaeological heritage, defining critical and key sites and declaring them