Races to modernity : metropolitan aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940
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Races to modernity : metropolitan aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940
Central European University Press, 2014
- : hardbound
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-344) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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