Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe

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Emily Gunzburger Makas, Tanja Damljanovic Conley
Routledge, 4 déc. 2009 - 296 pages
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This book explores the planning and architectural histories of the cities across Central and Southeastern Europe transformed into the cultural and political capitals of the new nationstates created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In their introduction, editors Makaš and Conley discuss the interrelated processes of nationalization, modernization, and Europeanization in the region at that time, with special attention paid to the way architectural and urban models from Western and Central Europe were adapted to fit the varying local physical and political contexts.

Individual studies provide summaries of proposed and realized projects in fourteen cities.Each addresses the political and ideological aspects of the city’s urban history, including the idea of becoming a cultural and/or political capital as well as the relationship between national and urban development. The concluding chapter builds on the introductory argument about how the search for national identity combined with the pursuit of modernization and desire to be more European drove the development of these cities in the aftermath of empires.

 

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Table des matières

Chapter 10 Prague
157
Chapter 11 Bratislava
174
Chapter 12 Cracow and Warsaw
189
Chapter 13 Zagreb
208
Chapter 14 Ljubljana
223
Chapter 15 Sarajevo
241
Modernity and the Myth of Europe in the Capital Cities of Central and Southeastern Europe
258
Index
270

Chapter 9 Budapest
141

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À propos de l'auteur (2009)

Emily Gunzburger Makaš is Associate Pr ofessor in the School of Architecture, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Tanja Damljanović Conley teaches architectural history at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.

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