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Races to modernity : metropolitan aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940 /

"The book asks how far the model of the European City can be applied to the cities of Eastern Europe which massively expanded from the second half of the 19th century on but often lacked some of the fundamentals of the European urbanity in the Weberian sense. The authors employ a broad focus an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Behrends, Jan C. (Editor ), Kohlrausch, Martin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Races to modernity : metropolitan aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940 : an introduction / Jan C. Behrends, Martin Kohlrausch
  • 2. The social and the national question in the Eastern metropolis
  • Modernity as mask : reality, appearance, and knowledge on the Petersburg street / Mark D. Steinberg
  • Modernist visions and mass politics in late imperial Kiev / Faith Hillis
  • Creating Polish Wilno, 1919-1939 / Theodore R. Weeks
  • Modern Moscow : Russia's metropolis and the state from Tsarism to Stalinism / Jan C. Behrends
  • 3. Urbanism goes East : the development of capitals, infrastructure, and planning
  • Athens, 1890-1940 : transitory modernism and national realities / Eleni Bastéa
  • Between rivalry, irrationality, and resistance : the modernization of Belgrade, 1890-1914 / Dubravka Stojanovic
  • Architectural praxis in Sofia : the changing perception of "Oriental" urbanity and "European" urbanism (1879-1940) / Elitza Stanoeva
  • Warszawa funkcjonalna : radical urbanism and the international discourse on planning in the interwar period / Martin Kohlrausch
  • 4. Ostmoderne? East European modernism
  • Capital modernism in the Baltic Republics : Kaunas, as well as Tallinn and Riga / Steven A. Mansbach
  • Helsinki : shaping an imperial or national capital city? / Laura Kolbe
  • Modernizing Zagreb : the freedom of the periphery / Eve Blau.