1st Edition

Jewish Culture and Urban Form A Case Study of Central Poland before the Holocaust

By Małgorzata Hanzl Copyright 2023
360 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Across a range of disciplines, urban morphology has offered lenses through which we can read the city. Reading the urban form, when conflated with ethnographic studies, enables us to return to past situations and recreate the long-gone everyday life. Urbanscapes – the artefacts of urban life – have left us the story portrayed in the pages of this book. The notions of time and space contribute... Read more

Chapter I. Introduction: Culture-specific Urban Structures Analyses

Chapter II. Methodology

Chapter III. Depicting the complexity of Jewish settlements in central Poland

Chapter IV. Case studies

Chapter V. Conclusions

Biography

Małgorzata Hanzl is Architect and urban planner, PhD with habilitation. Associate Professor at the Lodz University of Technology and a lecturer at Warsaw University of Technology. Member of the Urban Morphology Editorial Board. Fulbright Fellow in SENSEable CityLab, MIT (2014). Vice President of ISOCARP (2017–2020).