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Titre(s) : Races to modernity [Texte imprimé] : metropolitan aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940 / edited by Jan C. Behrends and Martin Kohlrausch
Publication : Budapest : Central European University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-356 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [313]-344. Index
"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 and look at metropolitan cities between Helsinki
and Athens, Warsaw and Moscow. The period under investigation begins with the 1890s
when East European societies entered an 'age of great acceleration' and stops with
the outbreak of World War II which not only destroyed but also socially and ethnically
altered many metropolitan cities of Eastern Europe. While before the First World War
most of Eastern Europe was subsumed in the Habsburg, Romanov, and Ottoman empires,
new (nation- ) states and socialist ideologies shaped post-1918 urban development.
For the majority of the new capitals created by the post-war order the state remained
the main proponent of change. Both, historical preconditions--the economic situation,
the legacy of the empires--and the experience of the upheaval of 1917/18 contributed
to this particularity of the region. On the other hand Western Europe and her urban
experts continued to be and became even stronger points of reference. The volume discusses
the peculiar relationship between state, city and the challenges of modernity in the
Eastern Europe with a focus on urban planning in the wider sense of the word. In particular,
the different chapters of the book ask how far--given the omnipresent, albeit often
idealized example of Western metropolitan cities--a 'reflective modernization' may
be identified as a common marker of cities in the region under observation"--Provided
by publisher
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Behrends, Jan Claas (1969-....). Éditeur scientifique
Kohlrausch, Martin (1973-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Urbanisme -- Europe de l'Ouest -- Influence
Urbanisme -- Europe de l'Est -- 1870-1914
Villes -- Europe de l'Est -- 1870-1914
Conditions sociales -- Europe de l'Est -- 1870-1914
Croissance urbaine -- Europe de l'Est -- 1870-1914
Urbanisme -- Europe de l'Est -- 1900-1945
Villes -- Europe de l'Est -- 1900-1945
Conditions sociales -- Europe de l'Est -- 1900-1945
Croissance urbaine -- Europe de l'Est -- 1900-1945
Indice(s) Dewey :
307.760 947 (23e éd.) = Communautés urbaines (sociologie) - Europe de l'Est Russie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789633860359 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb472776357
Notice n° :
FRBNF47277635
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
