Chasing Warsaw: Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990 (Campus Verlag - Interdisciplinary Urban Research) by Monika Grubbauer
Campus Verlag | March 15, 2013 | English | ISBN: 3593397781 | 336 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Campus Verlag | March 15, 2013 | English | ISBN: 3593397781 | 336 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Warsaw is one of the most dynamically developing cities in Europe, and its rich history has marked it as an epicenter of many modes of urbanism: Tzarist, modernist, socialist, and—in the past two decades—aggressively neoliberal. Focusing on Warsaw after 1990, this volume explores the interplay between Warsaw’s past urban identities and the intense urban change of the ’90s and ’00s. Chasing Warsaw departs from the typical narratives of post-socialist cities in Eastern Europe by contextualizing Warsaw’s unique transformation in terms of both global change and the shifting geographies of centrality and marginality in contemporary Poland.