Behrends, Jan C. <br/><br/>
Races to Modernity :  Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (370 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789633860366 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cities and towns-Europe, Eastern-Growth-History-19th century.<br/>Cities and towns-Europe, Eastern-Growth-History-20th century.<br/>Social change-Europe, Eastern-History.<br/>City planning-Europe, Eastern-History.<br/>City and town life-Europe, Eastern-History.<br/>Capitals (Cities)-Europe, Eastern-History.<br/>Europe, Eastern-Social conditions-19th century.<br/>Europe, Eastern-Social conditions-20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT384.E852  / .R334 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.76/0947