Dunaújváros

Dunaújváros, originally known as Sztálinváros, is a planned city built in Hungary in the 1950's on the Danube to support a major iron and steel works. It is an example of Soviet-style architecture and urban planning at its best and, in its time, a model city: "...the steel town of Dunaújváros, Hungary was widely known as the “happiest barracks of the eastern bloc” for its relatively high standard of living and consumer culture, linked to the market reforms begun in the 1960s. Moreover, Dunaújváros, built in the Stalinist 1950s (and initially called Sztálinváros), was an exemplar of the “socialist” material worlds produced by the state: a pseudo-Modernist, planned city, where the politicization of the built environment was particularly marked."

External links and further reading

 * Dunaújváros