Cities after the fall of communism : reshaping cultural landscapes and European identity / edited by John Czaplicka, Nida Gelazis, and Blair A. Ruble. - x, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction What time is this place? : locating the postsocialist city / The changing face of Vilnius : from capital to administrative center and back / The Novgorod model : creating a European past in Russia / Wroclaw's search for a new historical narrative : from Polonocentrism to postmodernism / Mapping Tallinn after communism : modernist architecture as representation of a small nation / The persuasive power of the Odessa myth / Traveling today through Sevastopol's past : postcommunist continuity in a "Ukrainian" cityscape / Locating Kaliningrad /Konigsberg on the map of Europe : "a Russia in Europe" or "a Europe in Russia"? / Kharkiv : a borderland city / L'viv in search of its identity : transformations of the city's public space / Lodz in the postcommunist era : in search of a new identity / Szczecin's identity after 1989 : a local turn / Conclusion: Cities after the fall / Nida Gelazis, John Czaplicka, Blair A. Ruble -- Irena Vaisvilaite -- Nicolai N. Petro -- Gregor Thum -- Jorg Hackmann -- Oleg Gubar, Patricia Herlihy -- Karl D. Qualls -- Olga Sezneva -- Volodymyr Kravchenko -- Liliana Hentosh, Bohdan Tscherkes -- Joanna Michlic -- Jan Musekamp -- Nida Gelazis, Blair A. Ruble, John Czaplicka. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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Cities and towns--Europe, Eastern
Post-communism--Europe, Eastern
Architecture--Europe, Eastern
City planning--Europe, Eastern

HT145.E75 / C57 2009

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