ISBN:
9780801891915
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 368 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
24 cm
DDC:
307.760947
Keywords:
Cities and towns
;
Post-communism
;
Architecture
;
City planning
;
Cities and towns Europe, Eastern
;
Post-communism Europe, Eastern
;
Architecture Europe, Eastern
;
City planning Europe, Eastern
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Osteuropa
;
Stadt
;
Kulturwandel
;
Geschichte 1990-2000
Abstract:
The changing face of Vilnius : from capital to administrative center and back / Irena Vaisvilaite -- The Novgorod model : creating a European past in Russia / Nicolai N. Petro -- Wrocław's search for a new historical narrative : from polonocentrism to postmodernism / Gregor Thum -- Mapping Tallinn after communism : modernist architecture as representation of a small nation / Jörg Hackmann -- The persuasive power of the Odessa myth / Oleg Gubar and Patricia Herlihy -- Traveling today through Sevastopol's past : postcommunist continuity in a "Ukrainian" cityscape / Karl D. Qualls -- Locating Kaliningrad/Königsberg on the map of Europe : "a Russia in Europe" or "a Europe in Russia"? / Olga Sezneva -- Kharkiv : a borderland city / Volodymyr Kravchenko -- L'viv in search of its identity : transformations of the city's public space / Liliana Hentosh and Bohdan Tscherkes -- Łódź in the postcommunist era : in search of a new identity / Joanna Michlic -- Szczecin's identity after 1989 : a local turn / Jan Musekamp -- Conclusion: Cities after the fall / Nida Gelazis, Blair A. Ruble, and John Czaplicka
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
The changing face of Vilnius : from capital to administrative center and back
,
The Novgorod model : creating a European past in Russia
,
Wrocław's search for a new historical narrative : from polonocentrism to postmodernism
,
Mapping Tallinn after communism : modernist architecture as representation of a small nation
,
The persuasive power of the Odessa myth
,
Traveling today through Sevastopol's past : postcommunist continuity in a "Ukrainian" cityscape
,
Locating Kaliningrad/Königsberg on the map of Europe : "a Russia in Europe" or "a Europe in Russia"?
,
Kharkiv : a borderland city
,
L'viv in search of its identity : transformations of the city's public space
,
Łódź in the postcommunist era : in search of a new identity
,
Szczecin's identity after 1989 : a local turn
,
Conclusion: Cities after the fall
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29477
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30988
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29477
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30988
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