Cities after the fall of communism

Titel: Cities after the fall of communism : reshaping cultural landscapes and European identity / ed. by John Czaplicka ...
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Veröffentlicht: Washington, DC : Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2009
Umfang: X, 368 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9780801891915
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. ix
  • Introduction: What Time Is This Place? Locating the Postsocialist City
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • European Cities Old and New: Re-creating Medieval Histories
  • 1
  • The Changing Face of Vilnius: From Capital to Administrative Center and Back
  • p. 17
  • 2
  • The Novgorod Model: Creating a European Past in Russia
  • p. 53
  • 3
  • Wroclaw's Search for a New Historical Narrative: From Polonocentrism to Postmodernism
  • p. 75
  • Part II
  • Architecture and History at Ports of Entry
  • 4
  • Mapping Tallinn after Communism: Modernist Architecture as Representation of a Small Nation
  • p. 105
  • 5
  • The Persuasive Power of the Odessa Myth
  • p. 137
  • 6
  • Traveling Today through Sevastopol's Past: Postcommunist Continuity in a "Ukrainian" Cityscape
  • p. 167
  • 7
  • Locating Kaliningrad/Konigsberg on the Map of Europe: "A Russia in Europe" or "a Europe in Russia"?
  • p. 195
  • Part III
  • Cities at a New East-West Border
  • 8
  • Kharkiv: A Borderland City
  • p. 219
  • 9
  • L'viv in Search of Its Identity: Transformations of the City's Public Space
  • p. 255
  • 10
  • Lodz in the Postcommunist Era: In Search of a New Identity
  • p. 281
  • 11
  • Szczecin's Identity after 1989: A Local Turn
  • p. 305
  • Conclusion: Cities after the Fall
  • p. 335
  • Contributors
  • p. 347
  • Index
  • p. 353