Jonathan Charley

‘Molodoi Chelovek, my origins lie in the past, but I am from the future’

My enduring interest in the relationship between socialist politics and architecture began in 1977. The airwaves throbbed with industrial beats, deep recession loomed and neo-liberal ideology was g...

Critical review essay: Dependency theory on trial

Review of Architecture Depends By Jeremy Till The MIT Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-262-01253-9 £18.95, paperback, pp. 232, with illustrations

The shadow of economic history - the architecture of boom, slump and crisis

Reviewing cycles of boom and bust, Jonathan Charley offers a Marxist analysis of the economic downturn, reflecting on what renewed socialist urban development might aspire to.

The dialectic of the built environment: The making of an imperial city

Jonathan Charleys dissertation The dialectic of the built environment is an exploration of theoretical and historical questions concerning the social character of labour and space, within the spatial and temporal coordinates of Russia and Moscow from the end of the eighteenth century to the early 1990s. This is a reproduction of a part of chapter 3, The making of an imperial city.