Imperial urbanism in the borderlands : Kyiv, 1800-1905 / Serhiy Bilenky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bilenʹkyĭ, Serhiĭ, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Ukraine--Kiev--History--19th century.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Ukraine--Kiev--History--20th century.

History.

Kyïv (Ukraine)--History--19th century.

Kyïv (Ukraine).

Kyïv (Ukraine)--History--20th century.

Ukraine--Kyïv.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 489 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Kiev, 1800-1905

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In the nineteenth and early twentieth century Kyiv was an important city in the European part of the Russian empire, rivaling Warsaw in economic and strategic significance. It also held the unrivaled spiritual and ideological position as Russia's own Jerusalem. In Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands, Serhiy Bilenky examines issues of space, urban planning, socio-spatial form, and the perceptions of change in imperial Kyiv. Combining cultural and social history with that of urban studies, Bilenky unearths a wide range of unpublished archival materials and argues that the changes experienced by the city prior to the revolution of 1917 were no less dramatic and traumatic than those of the Communist and post-Communist era. In fact, much of Kyiv's contemporary urban form, architecture, and natural setting were shaped by imperial modernizers during the long nineteenth century. The author also explores a general culture of imperial urbanism in Eastern Europe. Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands is the first work to approach the history of Kyiv from an interdisciplinary perspective and showcases Kyiv's rightful place as a city worthy of attention from historians, urbanists, and literary scholars."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mapping the city in transition

Using the past : the great cemetery of Rus'

Municipal autonomy under the Magdeburg law, 1800-1835

Planning a new city : empire transforms space, 1835-1870

Municipal autonomy reloaded : space for sale, 1871-1905

Counting Kyivites : the language of class, religion, and ethnicity

Municipal elites and "urban regimes" : continuities and disruptions

Sociospatial form and psychogeography

What language did the monuments speak?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-466) and index.

ISBN:

1487501722

9781487501723

OCLC:

980792014