Chasing Warsaw

Titel: Chasing Warsaw : socio-material dynamics of urban change since 1990 / Monika Grubbauer ... (eds.)
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Veröffentlicht: Frankfurt-on-Main ˜[u.a.]œ : Campus-Verl., 2012
Umfang: 336 S. : Ill., Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung ; 15
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ISBN: 9783593397788
Lokale Klassifikation: 36 8 W 2021 ; 36 2 J ; 36 13 M ; 36 13 Ka
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. 7
  • Introduction: Chasing Warsaw
  • p. 9
  • Theses on Post-Socialist Urban Transformation
  • p. 25
  • I
  • Post-Socialism and the Dynamics of Urban Change
  • Toward a More Comprehensive Notion of Urban Change: Linking Post-Socialist Urbanism and Urban Theory
  • p. 35
  • Comeback or Revolution of the Cities?
  • p. 61
  • II
  • Urban Form and Representation
  • Continuity of Change vs. Change of Continuity: A Diagnosis and Evaluation of Warsaw's Urban Transformation
  • p. 81
  • Gating Warsaw: Enclosed Housing Estates and the Aesthetics of Luxury
  • p. 109
  • The Liminal Cityscape: Post-Communist Warsaw as Collective Representation
  • p. 133
  • III
  • Social Practices and the City
  • Sanitation and Disorder in Warsaw's Urban Space: Cultural Determinants of Waste Management
  • p. 163
  • Visible and Invisible Ethnic Others in Warsaw: Spaces of Encounter and Places of Exclusion
  • p. 189
  • Kiosks with Vodka and Democracy: Civic Cafés between New Urban Movements and Old Social Divisions
  • p. 213
  • IV
  • Metropolitanism
  • The Laboratory of Polish Postmodernity: An Ethnographic Report from the Stadium-Bazaar
  • p. 241
  • Space, Class and the Geography of Poland's Champagne (Post-)Socialism
  • p. 269
  • The Cunning of Chaos and Its Orders: A Taxonomy of Urban Chaos in Post-Socialist Warsaw and Beyond
  • p. 291
  • List of Figures
  • p. 321
  • Contributors
  • p. 325
  • Index
  • p. 329