Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe

by Gunzburger Makas; Emily

• ISBN13: 9780415459433
• ISBN10: 0415459435
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw cities across Central and Southeastern Europe transformed into the cultural and political capitals of the nations and nation-states, which were created as the Ottoman and Hapsburg Empires declined and finally collapsed.

Author Biography

Emily Gunzburger Maka is Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Tanja Damljanvic Conley is Advisor and Visiting Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade.

Table of Contents

The Contributors	p. vii
Introduction
Shaping Central and Southeastern European Capital Cities in the Age of Nationalism	p. 1
South-Eastern European Capitals after the Ottoman Empire
Athens	p. 29
Belgrade	p. 45
Bucharest	p. 61
Cetinje	p. 75
Sofia	p. 91
Tirana	p. 108
Ankara	p. 124
Central European Capitals within and after the Hapsburg Empire
Budapest	p. 141
Prague	p. 157
Bratislava	p. 174
Cracow and Warsaw	p. 189
Zagreb	p. 208
Ljubljana	p. 223
Sarajevo	p. 241
Conclusion
Not just the National: Modernity and the Myth of Europe in the Capital Cities of Central and Southeastern Europe	p. 258
Index	p. 270
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