Shaping the Great City

by Blau, Eve; Platzer, Monika

• ISBN13: 9783791321516
• ISBN10: 379132151X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Prestel Pub

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
The Cultural Space of Central Europe	9	(48)
The City as Protagonist: Architecture and the Cultures of Central Europe	11	(14)
Eve Blau
City, Empire, and Imperial Aftermath: Contending Contexts for the Urban Vision	25	(18)
Charles S. Maier
Multicultural Communities: Tensions and Qualities, The Example of Central Europe	43	(14)
Moritz Csaky
The City as Form and Idea	57	(36)
Urban Visions, Plans, and Projects, 1890--1937	58	(15)
Renate Banik-Schweitzer
Planning in Two and Three Dimensions, 1890--1910	73	(5)
The Grobstadt, 1910--14	78	(5)
Planning on a New Scale, 1920--37	83	(4)
Urban Topography: Texture and Fabric of the City, 1890--1930	87	(6)
Modernity and Place	93	(154)
The Pluralism of Modernity: The Architectonic ``Language Problem'' in Central Europe	94	(13)
Friedrich Achleitner
Budapest, 1890--1914
The Urban Development of Budapest	107	(4)
Inventing a Hungarian Architecture: Budapest	111	(6)
Prague, 1908--18
The Architectural Avant-Garde in Prague	117	(4)
Petr Krajci
Rostislav Svacha
Czech Cubism	121	(4)
Vienna around 1910
Vienna Between Memory and Modernity	125	(5)
Iain Boyd Whyte
Reworking Traditions	130	(6)
Zagreb, 1880--1918
Modern Architectural Town Planning in Zagreb	136	(4)
Aleksander Laslo
The Cosmopolitan Ideal	140	(5)
L'viv, Krakow, and Timisoara, 1897--1914
The Architecture of L'viv	145	(4)
Ihor Zuk
The Urban Development of Krakow	149	(5)
Jacek Purchla
In the Center of the Periphery: Timisoara's Urban Architectural Evolution	154	(4)
Ileana Pintilie
Urban Aspirations on the Edge of Empire	158	(9)
Interlude: Ideas for a New World, 1919--27
Revolutionaries of Thought: Three Sites of Innovation	167	(6)
Monika Platzer
Manifesto Architecture	173	(5)
Budapest, 1927--37
Neues Bauen in Budapest	178	(3)
Andras Ferkai
Postwar Avant-garde	181	(5)
Zagreb, 1923--37
Architecture of Inter-war Zagreb	186	(4)
Aleksander Laslo
Urbanism and Modernity in the New Zagreb	190	(6)
Ljubljana, 1895--1937
From Provincial to National Center: Ljubljana	196	(5)
Breda Mihelic
The Persistence of Place: Plecnik's Ljublijana	201	(4)
Vienna, 1919--34
Grobstadt and Proletariat in Red Vienna	205	(4)
Eve Blau
The Social Democratic City	209	(6)
Prague, Brno, and Zlin, 1918--37
Architecture and Society	215	(4)
Rostislav Svacha
Capitalism and Collectivism in the New Czechoslovak State	219	(8)
From CIAM to CIAM-Ost, 1928--37
CIAM and Central Europe	227	(5)
Monika Platzer
The Functional City	232	(5)
Publications and Public Realms: Architectural Periodicals in the Habsburg Empire and Its Successor States	237	(10)
Andrew Herscher
Appendices	247	(3)
Biographical Notes	250	(13)
Selected Bibliography	263	(4)
List of Abbreviations	267	(2)
Index	269