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Races to Modeity:Metropolitan Aspirations in Easte Europe, 1890–1940
by: Jan C. Behrends (Editor),Martin Kohlrausch (Editor)
Publisher: Central European University Press
Publication Date: 2014/7/20
Language: English
Print Length: 370 pages
ISBN-10: 9633860350
ISBN-13: 9789633860359
Book Description
The comparative presentation of the birth of metropolises like St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Kiev, Belgrade, or Athens confirms the importance of the Weste model as well as the influence of inteational experts on city planning at the periphery of Europe. In addition, this volume presents an alteative perspective that aims to understand the genesis of Easte European cities with a metropolitan character or metropolitan aspirations as a process sui generis.The rapid expansion of metropolitan cities such as London and Paris began in the 17th and 18th centuries. Large parts of Central and Easte Europe underwent urbanization and industrialization with considerable delay. Nevertheless beginning in the second half of the 19th century, the towns in the Romanov and Habsburg empires, as well as in the Balkans grew into cities and metropolitan areas. They changed at an astonishing pace. This transformation has long been interpreted as an attempt to overcome the economic and cultural backwardness of the region and to catch up to Weste Europe.
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The comparative presentation of the birth of metropolises like St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Kiev, Belgrade, or Athens confirms the importance of the Weste model as well as the influence of inteational experts on city planning at the periphery of Europe. In addition, this volume presents an alteative perspective that aims to understand the genesis of Easte European cities with a metropolitan character or metropolitan aspirations as a process sui generis.The rapid expansion of metropolitan cities such as London and Paris began in the 17th and 18th centuries. Large parts of Central and Easte Europe underwent urbanization and industrialization with considerable delay. Nevertheless beginning in the second half of the 19th century, the towns in the Romanov and Habsburg empires, as well as in the Balkans grew into cities and metropolitan areas. They changed at an astonishing pace. This transformation has long been interpreted as an attempt to overcome the economic and cultural backwardness of the region and to catch up to Weste Europe.
