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City and power : postmodern urban spaces in contemporary Poland / Katarzyna Kajdanek, Igor Pietraszewski, Jacek Pluta (eds.).

Title
  1. City and power : postmodern urban spaces in contemporary Poland / Katarzyna Kajdanek, Igor Pietraszewski, Jacek Pluta (eds.).
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  1. Berlin : Peter Lang, [2018]

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Additional authors
  1. Kajdanek, Katarzyna, 1981-
  2. Pietraszewski, Igor, 1962-
  3. Pluta, Jacek,
Description
  1. 158 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. This book is an empirical study of a central European city focused on the political process. The authors use the example of the city of Wroclaw to present a condition of the urban public sphere in the context of local governance. Contemporary specificity of the public sphere is a result of a long process of system transformation in this part of Europe as well as of the impact new global challenges have had on the political process in self-governmental institutions. The book presents the practice of governance as a form of the political in both institutional and civic spheres of the city. The cases provided (related to politics of memory, the symbolic, sports, subcultures and urban movements) show how circulations of governance practices are created and how they influence the institutional borders of the political.
Series statement
  1. Warsaw studies in philosophy and social sciences, 2196-0143 ; volume 8
Uniform title
  1. Warsaw studies in philosophy and social sciences ; v. 8.
Subject
  1. 2000-2099
  2. 71.14 urban society
  3. Breslau
  4. Buildings
  5. Geschichtspolitik
  6. Kollektives Gedächtnis
  7. Öffentlicher Raum
  8. Poland > Wrocław
  9. Poland
  10. Politik
  11. Sociology, Urban > Wrocław
  12. Sociology, Urban
  13. Soziale Bewegung
  14. Sozialer Wandel
  15. Stadtentwicklung
  16. Urban renewal > Wrocław
  17. Urban renewal
  18. Wrocław (Poland) > Buildings, structures, etc
  19. Wrocław (Poland) > History > 21st century
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Preface: Wroclaw, a city of success? -- The power over collective memory -- To leave a trace on urban walls : youth cultures in the third circulation of memory in the city -- Transformation of architectural space in Wroclaw -- Bike power : emergence of the cycling movement in the urban public sphere -- Artists and power in the field of (subsidized) urban culture -- The football paradigm in Wroclaw urban policy : the municipalisation of Wroclaw -- Bibliography.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-158).