Races to Modernity Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890–1940
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2014
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9789633860359
Publisert
2014-07-20
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Central European University Press
Vekt
572 gr
Høyde
140 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
370
Biographical note
Jan C. Behrends, Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, and East European History, Humboldt University in Berlin Martin Kohlrausch, Associate Professor of European History, KU Leuven, Belgium
The comparative presentation of the birth of metropolises like St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Kiev, Belgrade, or Athens confirms the importance of the Western model as well as the influence of international experts on city planning at the periphery of Europe. In addition, this volume presents an alternative perspective that aims to understand the genesis of Eastern European cities with a metropolitan character or metropolitan aspirations as a process sui generis. The rapid expansion of metropolitan cities such as London and Paris began in the 17th and 18th centuries. Large parts of Central and Eastern Europe underwent urbanization and industrialization with considerable delay. Nevertheless beginning in the second half of the 19th century, the towns in the Romanov and Habsburg empires, as well as in the Balkans grew into cities and metropolitan areas. They changed at an astonishing pace. This transformation has long been interpreted as an attempt to overcome the economic and cultural backwardness of the region and to catch up to Western Europe.
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Races to Modernity confirms the importance of the Western model as well as the influence of international experts on city planning at the periphery of Europe.
1. Introduction 2. The social and the national question in the Eastern metropolis; Steinberg Modernity as Mask: Reality, Appearance, and Knowledge on the Petersburg Street; Hillis Modernist Visions and Mass Politics in Late Imperial Kiev; Behrends Modern Moscow: Russia's Metropolis and the State from Tsarism to Stalinism; Weeks Creating Polish Wilno 1919-1939 3. Urbanism goes east: the development of capitals, infrastructure, and planning; Bastea Athens 1890 - 1940: Transitory Modernism and National Realities; Stojanovic Between Rivalry, Irrationality, and Resistance: The Modernization of Belgrade, 1890-1914; Stanoeva Architectural Praxis in Sofia: The Changing Perception of "Oriental" Urbanity and "European" Urbanism (1879-1940); Kohlrausch Warszawa Funkcjonalna: Radical Urbanism and the International Discourse on Planning in the Interwar Period; 4. Ostmoderne? East European modernism; Mansbach Capital Modernism: Kaunas's Architecture for a New Lithuania; Kolbe Helsinki: Shaping an Imperial or National Capital City? Blau Modernizing Zagreb: The Freedom of the Periphery 5. Bibliography 6. List of Contributors
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"...this work is a convincing read that greatly adds to our understanding of urban developments in semi-peripheral regions."
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789633860359
Publisert
2014-07-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Central European University Press
Vekt
572 gr
Høyde
140 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
370