ISBN:
0816635854
,
0816635846
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 222 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Globalization and community v. 8
Parallel Title:
Print version Fin de Millénaire Budapest : Metamorphoses of Urban Life
DDC:
306/.09439/12
Keywords:
Cities and towns
;
Globalization
;
Post-communism
;
Budapest (Hungary) ; Social conditions
;
Cities and towns ; Europe, Eastern
;
Globalization
;
Post-communism
;
Electronic books
;
Budapest (Hungary) Social conditions
Abstract:
Fin de Millénaire Budapest combines historical narratives and ethnographic accounts with quantitative evidence to create a richly detailed picture of a city subjected to the forces of great local and global change
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Constructing difference : western versus non-western, capitalist versus socialist urban logic -- "he that hath to him shall be given" : inequalities of housing privatization -- Inner city doubly renewed : global phenomenon, local accents -- Assembling the square : social transformation in public space and the broken mirage of the second economy -- Globalizing art and consumption : art movies and shopping malls -- Urban texture unraveling : fragmentation of the city -- Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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