Races to Modernity : : Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890–1940 /

Races to Modernity : : Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890–1940 / / ed. by Martin Kohlrausch, Jan C. Behrends.

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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 alternat...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bastéa, Eleni,
Behrends, Jan C.,
Blau, Eve,
Hillis, Faith,
Kohlrausch, Martin,
Kolbe, Laura,
Mansbach, Steven A.,
Stanoeva, Elitza,
Steinberg, Mark D.,
Stojanović, Dubravka,
Weeks, Theodore R.,
HerausgeberIn:
Behrends, Jan C.,
Kohlrausch, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (370 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • 1. Races to Modernity: Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890–1940. An Introduction
  • THE SOCIAL AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN THE EASTERN METROPOLIS
  • 2. Modernity as Mask: Reality, Appearance, and Knowledge on the Petersburg Street
  • 3. Modernist Visions and Mass Politics in Late Imperial Kiev
  • 4. Creating Polish Wilno, 1919–1939
  • 5. Modern Moscow: Russia’s Metropolis and the State from Tsarism to Stalinism
  • URBANISM GOES EAST: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALS, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND PLANNING
  • 6. Athens, 1890–1940: Transitory Modernism and National Realities
  • 7. Between Rivalry, Irrationality, and Resistance: The Modernization of Belgrade, 1890–1914
  • 8. Architectural Praxis in Sofia: The Changing Perception of Oriental Urbanity and European Urbanism, 1879–1940
  • 9. Warszawa Funkcjonalna: Radical Urbanism and the International Discourse on Planning in the Interwar Period
  • OSTMODERNE? EAST EUROPEAN MODERNISM
  • 10. Capital Modernism in the Baltic Republics: Kaunas, Tallinn, and Riga
  • 11. Imperial and National Helsinki: Shaping an Eastern or Western Capital City?
  • 12. Modernizing Zagreb: The Freedom of the Periphery
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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