1st Edition

Urban Change in Central Europe The Case of Kraków

Edited By Jacek Purchla Copyright 2023
260 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The changes that Central European cities have undergone since 1989 deserve a complex, interdisciplinary analysis that offers deep insight into the specific nature of the transformation taking place in the region. This book presents a multidimensional and cross-disciplinary case study of Kraków, focusing on the changes taking place in Central Europe over the last three decades. This book... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Jacek Purchla

1. Kraków 1989 and since

Jacek Purchla

2. Civil society: From “Solidarity” to urban activism

Dominika Hołuj

3. Municipal self- government: 1990–2019

Dominika Hołuj

4. Kraków in the face of the transformation: The economic life of the city

Krzysztof Broński

5. Kraków: An eventful city

Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga

6. Kraków spatial development after 1989

Michał Wiśniewski

7. Kraków and its region: Mutual relations after 1989

Piotr Miodunka

8. Kraków architecture and globalisation

Michał Wiśniewski

9. Kraków culture heritage: On the way to globalizing the national potential

Andrzej Laskowski

10. Kraków: A creative city

Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga

11. Kraków’s metropolitan functions

Jacek Purchla

Afterword – Kraków: Dialectics of history and change

Robert Pyrah

Names Index

Subject Index

Biography

Jacek Purchla is Professor of Humanities and Head of the Department of Economic and Social History/UNESCO Chair for Heritage and Urban Studies at the Cracow University of Economics.