Chasing Warsaw
Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990
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336 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 3/8
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© 2012
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Chasing Warsaw
Monika Grubbauer and Joanna Kusiak
Introduction: Chasing Warsaw
Monika Grubbauer and Joanna Kusiak
Theses on Post-Socialist Urban Transformation
Karl Schlögel
Karl Schlögel
I: Post-Socialism and the Dynamics of Urban Change
Toward a More Comprehensive Notion of Urban Change: Linking Post-Socialist Urbanism and Urban Theory
Monika Grubbauer
Comeback or Revolution of the Cities?
Regina Bittner
II: Urban Form and Representation
Continuity of Change vs. Change of Continuity: A Diagnosis and Evaluation of Warsaw’s Urban Transformation
Magdalena Staniszkis
Gating Warsaw: Enclosed Housing Estates and the Aesthetics of Luxury
Jacek Gadecki
The Liminal Cityscape: Post-Communist Warsaw as Collective Representation
Dominik Bartmański
III: Social Practices and the City
Sanitation and Disorder in Warsaw’s Urban Space: Cultural Determinants of Waste Management
Włodzimierz Karol Pessel
Visible and Invisible Ethnic Others in Warsaw: Spaces of Encounter and Places of Exclusion
Aneta Piekut
Kiosks with Vodka and Democracy: Civic Cafés between New Urban Movements and Old Social Divisions
Joanna Kusiak and Wojciech Kacperski
IV: Metropolitanism
The Laboratory of Polish Postmodernity: An Ethnographic Report from the Stadium-Bazaar
Roch Sulima
Space, Class and the Geography of Poland’s Champagne (Post-)Socialism
Kacper Pobłocki
The Cunning of Chaos and Its Orders: A Taxonomy of Urban Chaos in Post-Socialist Warsaw and Beyond
Joanna Kusiak
List of Figures
Contributors
Index
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