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Races to Modernity : Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (370 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789633860366
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Races to ModernityDDC classification:
  • 307.76/0947
LOC classification:
  • HT384.E852 .R334 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 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 -- Back cover.
Summary: This volume succeeds beautifully in conveying a detailed sense of urban development in Eastern Europe and the crucial importance of cities for the moderniszation of Eastern Europe during the half century before World War II.
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 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 -- Back cover.

This volume succeeds beautifully in conveying a detailed sense of urban development in Eastern Europe and the crucial importance of cities for the moderniszation of Eastern Europe during the half century before World War II.

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