Tallinn as a City of Thresholds

Francisco Martínez

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2015, vol. 46, issue 2, 127-155

Abstract: This article examines post-socialist transformations by studying material traces and gaps in the Estonian capital. The need for sutures is presented as the consequence of a state of collective liminality, here manifested in the juxtaposition of unfinished projects and in threshold experiences in Tallinn. Relying on empirical examples, literature, architecture, and visual signs, I explore the lack of contextual fit, saturation, and redundancy in this city, concluding that continuous radical changes have increased entropy in the cityscape.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2014.981673

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