'Socialist and Post-socialist Urbanizations: Architecture, Land and Property Rights': A Conference Held on 8–11 May 2014 in Tallinn, Estonia

'Socialist and Post-socialist Urbanizations: Architecture, Land and Property Rights' is the name of conference that was organised by the Faculty of Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Arts as part of the 11th Urban and Landscape Days, a regular interdisciplinary meeting of urban scholars in Tallinn. Many presentations focused on changing property relations or shifts in housing/land ownership under and since the collapse of state-socialism; this was the first of the key themes of the conference. The variety of issues that were discussed -- from property rights, to architectural and planning practices, the analysis of symbolic values, and conflicts over interpretations of the past -- proves how wide-ranging the understanding of the expression '(post)socialist urbanisations' can be within urban studies. Also, the ways in which researchers use key concepts and the meaning they ascribe to the words 'socialist' and 'post-socialist' are manifold.