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The City in Central Europe

Author : Malcolm Gee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429807449
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The City in Central Europe written by Malcolm Gee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume explores how the cities of central Europe, among them Berlin, Budapest, Hamburg, Vienna and Prague, went through a period of phenomenal growth during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their rapid expansion and growing economic importance made citizens aware of the need to manage the fabric and culture of the urban environment, while burgeoning nationalism and the development of local and international tourism constructed cities as showcases for national and regional identity. Competing visions of how city and nation should represent themselves were advanced by different social groups, by commercial interests and by local and national political authorities. Among the developments examined in this collection of essays are the campaign for the architectural development of Hamburg; international modernism and notions of the garden city in Czechoslovakia; competition among German cities as art centres; the role of Wawel Hill in Kraków as a vehicle for Polish nationalism; tourism in Austria-Hungary; Jewish assimilation in Vienna; social control and cultural policy in Vienna; and the representation of Berlin on film. The volume is introduced by Malcolm Gee, Tim Kirk and Jill Steward who provide an historical overview which establishes a context for the exchange of ideas and competition between the cities of central Europe during this period.

Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe

Author : Waldemar Cudny
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000514668
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe by : Waldemar Cudny

Download or read book Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe written by Waldemar Cudny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents multidimensional socio-economic transformations taking place in the post-socialist cities located in selected countries of the Central European region. The analysis includes case studies from the Eastern part of Germany (Chemnitz, Leipzig), Poland (Łódź, Kielce, Katowice conurbation, and peripheral urban centres from Eastern Poland), Slovakia (Bratislava, Nitra), the Czech Republic (Olomouc, Brno), and from Hungary (Pécs). The analysed urban areas have undergone far-reaching political and socio-economic changes in the last 30 years. These changes began with the collapse of communism and the centrally planned economy system in the region of Central Europe. The beginning of this period, often referred to as post-socialist transformation, dates back to 1989. The consequence of the aforementioned political processes was the multifaceted socio-economic and demographic changes that significantly affected urban areas in Central Europe. This book presents an attempt to summarize the main long-term processes of changes taking place in these urban areas and to identify contemporary and future trends in their socio-economic development. The book will be valuable to undergraduate and postgraduate students in human geography, urban studies, economy, and city marketing, especially with an interest in Central Europe.

The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600

Author : Tom Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199274606
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 written by Tom Scott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first comprehensive study of city-states in medieval Europe, Tom Scott analyzes reasons for cities' aquisitions of territory and how they were governed. He argues that city-states did not wither after 1500, but survived by transformation and adaption.

Central Europe

Author : Lonnie Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195100719
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Central Europe written by Lonnie Johnson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the ages, small nations struggled valiantly against a series of imperial powers - Ottoman Turkey, Habsburg Austria, imperial Germany, czarist Russia, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union - and they lost regularly. Johnson's account is present-minded in the best sense: in describing actual historical events, he illustrates the ways they have been remembered, and how they contribute to the national assumptions that still drive European politics today.

Court, Cloister, and City

Author : Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226427307
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Court, Cloister, and City by : Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Download or read book Court, Cloister, and City written by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann chronicles more than three hundred years of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Ukraine, Lithuania and western parts of the Russian Federation. Massive in scale, the book is highly accessible and lavishly illustrated. The readability of the text and the entirely new insights it provides into three hundred years of Central European history make this a vital introduction to one of the least understood periods in the history of art.

The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Eli Valley
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765760005
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe written by Eli Valley and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest is the most comprehensive guidebook covering all aspects of Jewish history and contemporary life in Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest. This remarkable book includes detailed histories of the Jews in these cities, walking tours of Jewish districts past and present, intensive descriptions of Jewish sites, fascinating accounts of local Jewish legend and lore, and practical information for Jewish travelers to the region.

Shaping the Great City

Author : Eve Blau
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Great City written by Eve Blau and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosion of architectural ideas during the last decades of the Hapsburg Empire and in the first adventurous years of the new republics of Central Europe that followed it is the subject of this stimulating and wide-ranging study.

World of Wanderlust

Author : Brooke Saward
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 176014343X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book World of Wanderlust written by Brooke Saward and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the world's greatest destinations? Where are the best places to travel solo? From airport fashion to road trip rules, professional traveller Brooke Saward shows us where to go, what to do and how to get that holiday feeling without even leaving home. Full of beautiful photographs that will ignite the imagination and featuring enduring favourites like Paris, New York, and London, this is the book that will inspire you to make every day an adventure.

Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe

Author : F. E. Ian Hamilton
Publisher : United Nations University Press
ISBN 13 : 9280811053
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe by : F. E. Ian Hamilton

Download or read book Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe written by F. E. Ian Hamilton and published by United Nations University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This volume is one in a series initiated by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies on the inter-relationship between globalisation and urban transformation. It identifies and describes the inter- and intra-urban transformations of Central and Eastern European cities and considers their pre-1945 historic legacies, the socialist period, and their contemporary transition towards market oriented and democratic systems. The dramatic changes since 1989 including the collapse of Communist ideology, the break-up of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the end of the Cold War and the impact of globalisation and European integration, have reconfigured this region and affected their re-integration into European and global networks. This book first examines the similarities and differences between significant Central and Eastern European cities, comparing the differing patterns of historical context and socialist legacies before 1990, and the impacts of internal and external forces on re-shaping these cities and their paths of transformation since 1990. It also examines the role of contemporary planning within the overall development of Central and Eastern European cities. The conclusion demonstrates the similarities and differences between Central and Eastern European cities and their re-integration into global networks.

Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe

Author : Uilleam Blacker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317428382
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe by : Uilleam Blacker

Download or read book Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe written by Uilleam Blacker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundaries, found themselves living in cities that were filled with the traces of the foreign cultures of the former inhabitants. In the immediate post-war period these traces were not acknowledged, the new inhabitants going along with official policies of oblivion, the national narratives of new post-war regimes, and the memorializing of the victors. In time, however, and increasingly over recent decades, the former "other pasts" have been embraced and taken on board as part of local cultural memory. This book explores this interesting and increasingly important phenomenon. It examines official ideologies, popular memory, literature, film, memorialization and tourism to show how other pasts are being incorporated into local cultural memory. It relates these developments to cultural theory and argues that the relationship between urban space, cultural memory and identity in Eastern Europe is increasingly becoming a question not only of cultural politics, but also of consumption and choice, alongside a tendency towards the cosmopolitanization of memory.

Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires

Author : Emily Gunzburger Makas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135167257
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires written by Emily Gunzburger Makas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the urban and planning history of cities across Central and South-eastern Europe against a background of rising nationalism, this book contains fourteen studies of individual cities. It includes chapters that outline the political history of the area and how the developments in the different countries were interconnected.

Central Europe

Author : Steve Fallon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Europe written by Steve Fallon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide includes travel facts for Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland.

Historical Atlas of Central Europe

Author : Paul Robert Magocsi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487523319
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Historical Atlas of Central Europe written by Paul Robert Magocsi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Europe remains a region of ongoing change and continuing significance in the contemporary world. This third, fully revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe takes into consideration recent changes in the region. The 120 full-colour maps, each accompanied by an explanatory text, provide a concise visual survey of political, economic, demographic, cultural, and religious developments from the fall of the Roman Empire in the early fifth century to the present. No less than 19 countries are the subject of this atlas. In terms of today's borders, those countries include Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus in the north; the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovakia in the Danubian Basin; and Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, and Greece in the Balkans. Much attention is also given to areas immediately adjacent to the central European core: historic Prussia, Venetia, western Anatolia, and Ukraine west of the Dnieper River. Embedded in the text are 48 updated administrative and statistical tables. The value of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe as an authoritative reference tool is further enhanced by an extensive bibliography and a gazetteer of place names - in up to 29 language variants - that appear on the maps and in the text. The Historical Atlas of Central Europe is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, journalists, and general readers who wish to have a fuller understanding of this critical area, with its many peoples, languages, and continued political upheaval.

Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700

Author : Jaroslav Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131700339X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700 written by Jaroslav Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst much has been written about early modern urban history, the majority of this work has focussed on Western Europe with relatively little available in English on towns and cities in the former communist East. However, in recent years urban scholars have increasingly looked to a much more inclusive picture of Europe that compares and contrasts development across the whole continent. Dealing primarily with Bohemia, Hungary and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this book provides an insight into a number of key issues concerning the economic, social and demographic trends in early modern East-Central European urban history. Taking a supra-national perspective, across a long time span, it examines the effects of migration, Reformation, state building and economic change on the transformation of medieval urban communities into early modern societies. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, particularly the registers of new citizens kept by many towns and cities, a fascinating picture of urban development and social structure is reconstructed that not only tells us much about East-Central Europe, but adds to our knowledge of the whole continent.

Diversity and Dissent

Author : Howard Louthan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 085745109X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Diversity and Dissent written by Howard Louthan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern Central Europe was the continent’s most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe’s most religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in terms of confessional conflict and war. Focusing on the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this volume examines the tremendous challenge of managing confessional diversity in Central Europe between 1500 and 1800. Addressing issues of tolerance, intolerance, and ecumenism, each chapter explores a facet of the complex dynamic between the state and the region’s Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Utraquist, and Jewish communities. The development of religious toleration—one of the most debated questions of the early modern period—is examined here afresh, with careful consideration of the factors and conditions that led to both confessional concord and religious violence.

Social Change and Urban Restructuring in Central Europe

Author : György Enyedi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Social Change and Urban Restructuring in Central Europe written by György Enyedi and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographers and regional scholars contribute both thematic essays about the region generally or case studies. Their topics include local government in post-socialist cities; class, ethnicity, and urban restructuring in post-communist Hungary; commercial property development in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw, new models of the housing system, aesthetic aspects of change in urban space in Prague and Budapest during the transition; and border regions and trans-border cooperation, the case of Poland. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Microcosm

Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Microcosm written by Norman Davies and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid exploration of what it means to be Central European using the city of Breslau as a microcosm of the region. Central Europe has always been endowed with a rich variety of migrants and settlers, and has repeatedly been the scene of nomadic invasions, mixed settlements and military conquests. As a result, the area has witnessed a profusion of languages, cultures, religions and nationalities. The history of Silesia's main city can be seen as a fascinating tale in its own right, but it is more than that. It embodies all the experiences which have made Central Europe what it is - the rich mixture of nationalities and cultures; the German settlement and the reflux of the Slavs; a Jewish presence of exceptional distinction; a turbulent succession of Imperial rulers; and the shattering exposure to both Nazis and Stalinists. In short, it is a Central European microcosm. The third largest German city of the mid-nineteenth century, Breslau's population reached one million in 1945, before the bitter German defence of the city against the Soviets wrought almost total destruction. Transferred to Poland after the war, Breslau has risen from ruins and is again a thriving economic and cultural centre of the region.