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Parks in the Balkan capitals : leisure, urban impact, monuments, stories, and significance / edited by Alexandra Milanova and Ana-Maria Lepăr.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- South-East European history
- South-East European history ; vol. 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban parks--Balkan Peninsula--History.
- Urban parks.
- Urban parks--Social aspects--Balkan Peninsula.
- Landscape architecture--Balkan Peninsula--History.
- Landscape architecture.
- Monuments--Balkan Peninsula--History.
- Monuments.
- Balkan Peninsula--Social life and customs.
- Balkan Peninsula.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, 2026.
- Contents:
- PART I Parks and city modernization
- University Park in Belgrade: The Spatial Structure of (In)visible Memory (Milja Mladenović)
- Introduction
- Cultural and Historical Contexts of University Park's Urban Development-Identifying the (in)visible heritage
- First urban plans of modern Belgrade
- Monuments and Collective Memory in the University Park
- Anchoring the "invisible" heritage to existing monuments and structures.
- Narrating the Hidden Center: Exploring the Everyday Naming of Belgrade's Park Luke Ćelović and Re-writing of Non-place from the Margins (Simon Campbell, Marta Stojić Mitrović)
- Situating the park
- Picin Park
- Park Luke Ćelović
- Afghan Park
- Park kod Ekonomskog fakulteta
- A hidden center
- Bibliography
- Belgrade Parks in the Urban Landscape Transformation (Dragana Ćorović, Zlata Vuksanović-Macura, Nevena Vasiljević, Marija Milinković)
- Theoretical framework: Modernization of urban landscape
- Phase one: The inception
- the question of land, power, and boundaries
- Phase two: Planning
- the making of a public park
- Phase three: Institutionalism-modernization of nature vs. speculative development
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Parks as Sites of Nation-building: A Case Study of Belgrade's Tašmajdan (Madeline Stull)
- Belgrade's Development Viewed Through Tašmajdan
- Creating a Serbian Belgrade, 1830-1914
- Creating a new city center, 1914-1941
- Tašmajdan in the capital of the SFRY, 1944-1991
- Tašmajdan today, 2009-2022
- Oral History in Context
- Defining Serbian History and Identity
- Views on Preservation and Applying the Framework
- Conclusion: Belgrade's Development and Tašmajdan
- Episodes from the City Park in Skopje (Violeta Bakalchev, Sasha Tasic, Aleksandar Petanovski, Minas Bakalchev)
- The Park as an urban fragment
- The Architecture of the Park
- Elements
- Projections
- The Parergon
- Fragments
- The node
- Conclusion: Pictorial consequences of the creation of the park
- Bibliography
- Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt Public Garden-The Green Heart of Chişinău (Alina Ostapov)
- PART II Parks as place of conspiracies
- The Parks of Sofia-Spaces for Occult Societies (1890s-1980s) (Georgeta Nazarska)
- Knyaz-Borisova Gradina [Prince Boris Garden] / Park na svobodata [Freedom Park]
- The Vitosha National Park
- PART III Parks in literature
- Literary Representations of the Park Zrinjevac in Croatian Interwar Prose (1918-1941) (Patrycja Chajęcka)
- Introduction: A short history of the Nikola Šubić Zrinski Square
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Croatian prose in the interwar period
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 01, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Milanova, Alexandra Parks in the Balkan Capitals
- ISBN:
- 9781636678221
- 163667822X
- 9781636678238
- 1636678238
- Publisher Number:
- 90104575833
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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