1st Edition

The City in Central Europe

Edited By Malcolm Gee, Tim Kirk, Jill Steward Copyright 1999
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1999, this volume explores how the cities of central Europe, among them Berlin, Budapest, Hamburg, Vienna and Prague, went through a period of phenomenal growth during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their rapid expansion and growing economic importance made citizens aware of the need to manage the fabric and culture of the urban environment, while burgeoning... Read more

1. A City in Distress?: Paul Bröcker and the New Architecture of Hamburg, 1900-1918. Matthew Jeffires. 2. From the Garden to the Factory: Urban Visions in Czechoslovakia Between the Wars. Jane Pavitt. 3. Networks and Boundries: German Art Centres and Their Satellites, 1815-1914. Robin Lenman. 4. The Berlin Art World, 1918-1933. Malcolm Gee. 5. Cultural Institutions as Urban Innovations: the Czech Lands, Poland and the Eastern Baltic, 1750-1900. Lud’a Klusáková. 6. Castles, Cabarets and Cartoons: Claims on Polishness in Kraków around 1905. David Crowley. 7. ‘Gruss aus Wien’: Urban Tourism in Austria-Hungary before the First World War. Jill Steward. 8. Big-City Jews: Jewish Big City – the Dialectics of Jewish Assimilation in Vienna c. 1900. Steven Beller. 9. Popular Culture and Politics in Imperial Vienna. Tim Kirk. 10. ‘Making a Living from Disgrace’: the Politics of Prostitution, Female Proverty and Urban Gender Codes in Budapest and Vienna, 1860-1920. Susan Zimmermann. 11. Coping with Social and Economic Crisis: the Viennese Experience, 1929-1933. Gerhard Melinz. 12. Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a City: Traffic-Mindedness and the City in Interwarr Germany. Anthony McElligott. 13. Wim Wenders and Berlin. Sabine Jaccaud.

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Malcolm Gee, Tim Kirk, Jill Steward