Chasing Warsaw: Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change Since 1990 Contributor(s): Grubbauer, Monika (Editor), Kusiak, Joanna (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3593397781 ISBN-13: 9783593397788 Publisher: Campus Verlag OUR PRICE: $62.37 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Europe - General - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
Dewey: 711.4 |
Series: Campus Verlag - Interdisciplinary Urban Research |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.6" W x 8.3" (0.95 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Warsaw is one of the most dynamically developing cities in Europe, and its rich history has marked it as an epicenter of many modes of urbanism: Tzarist, modernist, socialist, and--in the past two decades--aggressively neoliberal. Focusing on Warsaw after 1990, this volume explores the interplay between Warsaw's past urban identities and the intense urban change of the '90s and '00s. Chasing Warsaw departs from the typical narratives of post-socialist cities in Eastern Europe by contextualizing Warsaw's unique transformation in terms of both global change and the shifting geographies of centrality and marginality in contemporary Poland. |
Contributor Bio(s): Grubbauer, Monika: - Monika Grubbauer is an architect and urban researcher at Darmstadt University of Technology. |