The revitalization of urban space
, renouvellement urbain, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, gentrification, identité, habitants, voisinage, périphéries, mutation sociale, espace urbain, Krakow, Cracovie, Milan, Smagacz Marta
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Smagacz uses a comparative approach to look at two very different but related processes: what she calls the “revitalization” of two formerly peripheral and now prosper- <br />
ous, innovative and trendy urban districts: the first a part of the historical Polish capital, Krakow, and the second of the dynamic Northern Italian city of Milan. Both are useful objects of analysis in Smagacz’s perspective, and comparison throws into high relief the differences as well as the similarities. For Smagacz cities are important from a methodological point of view: not only are they of growing significance in today’s world, where an ever greater proportion of the population has become, willingly or not, urban: for Smagacz cities force us to integrate our disciplinary approaches and tools. The city cannot be understood unilaterally, but brings the researcher necessarily to look to different disciplines, or rather across and between disciplines, in order to create a meaningful and realistic picture. <br />
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Marta Smagacz is by formation a sociologist, and sociological concerns were the starting point for her study. Her methodology is based on the conviction that the city and its parts are made, interpreted and continually reinterpreted by the inhabitants as they construct and reconstruct ‘their’ city. Interviews with the present inhabitants of the two districts form the core of her empirical evidence. The object of study and the results obtained inspired Smagacz to bring a historical and political-cultural perspective to bear on Ticinese and Kazimierz, in the attempt to highlight and to explain their similarities and differences.</div>
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<b>Marta Smagacz </b>is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.</div>
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Marta Smagacz
Edizioni Plus - Pisa University Press
2008
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Becoming metropolitan : Urban selfhood and the making of modern Cracow
Cracow, Krakow, Cracovie, histoire urbaine, identité, société urbaine, migration urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, nineteenth century, modernisation, Wood Nathaniel D., métropolisation
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The “Age of Great Cities” erupted in East Central Europe in the last quarter of the 19th century as migrants poured into imperial and regional capitals. For citizens of places like Cracow, discovering and enacting metropolitan identities reinforced their break from a provincial past while affirming their belonging to “modern European civilization.” Strolling the city streets, sipping coffee in cafés, riding the electric tram, and reading the popular press, Cracovians connected to modern big-city culture. In this lively account, Wood looks to the mass circulation illustrated press as well as to supporting evidence from memoirs and archives from the period to present Cracow as a case study that demonstrates the ways people identify with modern urban life.<br />
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Wood’s original study represents a major shift in thinking about Cracovian and East Central European history at the turn of the century. Challenging the previous scholarship that has focused on nationalism, Wood demonstrates that, in the realm of everyday life, urban identities were often more immediate and compelling. Becoming Metropolitan will appeal to scholars and students of urban history and the popular press, as well as to those interested in Polish history, Eastern European history, and modern European history.</div>
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<b>Nathaniel D. Wood</b> is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kansas.</div>
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Nathaniel D. Wood
Northern Illinois Unversity Press
June 2010
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