Chasing Warsaw

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Chasing Warsaw
      Monika Grubbauer and Joanna Kusiak

Theses on Post-Socialist Urban Transformation
      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