Composing urban history and the constitution of civic identities / edited by John J. Czaplicka and Blair A. Ruble ; assisted by Lauren Crabtree.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Czaplicka, John.

Ruble, Blair A., 1949-

Crabtree, Lauren.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--History.

Cities and towns.

History.

Cultural pluralism.

Urban policy.

Community development, Urban.

Urban renewal.

Physical Description:

xiv, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Focusing on nine cities--Washington, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, L'viv, Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Barcelona, and Riga--Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities explores the success with which urban communities divided by race, nationality, class, and religion succeed at creating a new, inclusive civic identity. The contributors examine how these cities present their own history--embodied in everything from museum exhibits and architecture to street names--and whether these narratives promote a pluralistic, democratic self-image which brings together the many varieties of people and institutions that make cities both urban and urbane or an exclusionary one that claims urban space for some particular group. Contributors: Howard Gillette, Jr., Grigorii V. Golosov, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Brian Ladd, Siegfried Mattl, James A. Miller, Jiri Musil, Cynthia Paces, Olga Sezneva, Ojars Sparitis, Pep Subiros, Victor Susak, Ilya Utekhin, and John Michael Vlach

Contents:

The archaeology of the local

The instrumentality of historical images

Historical alterity

Transformations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0801873851

OCLC:

51460879