Bilenky, Serhiy.

Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands : Kyiv, 1800-1905. - 1 online resource (512 pages)

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Maps 1-6 -- Introduction -- Part One: Representing the City -- Chapter One: Mapping the City in Transition -- Chapter Two: Using the Past: The Great Cemetery of Rus' -- Part Two: Making the City -- Chapter Three: Municipal Autonomy under the Magdeburg Law, 1800-1835 -- Chapter Four: Planning a New City: Empire Transforms Space, 1835-1870 -- Chapter Five: Municipal Autonomy Reloaded: Space for Sale, 1871-1905 -- Maps 7-12 -- Part Three: Peopling the City -- Chapter Six: Counting Kyivites: The Language of Class, Religion, and Ethnicity -- Chapter Seven: Municipal Elites and "Urban Regimes": Continuities and Disruptions -- Part Four: Living (in) the City -- Chapter Eight: Sociospatial Form and Psychogeography -- Chapter Nine: What Language Did the Monuments Speak? -- Conclusions: Towards a Theory of Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands is the first work to approach the history of Kyiv from an interdisciplinary perspective and showcases Kyiv's rightful place as a city worthy of attention from historians, urbanists, and literary scholars.

9781487513825


Urbanization-Ukraine-Kiev-History-20th century.
Kiev (Ukraine)-History-20th century.


Electronic books.

DK508.935 .B554 2018

947.714

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