Information regarding the 2021 summer semester:

Courses will take place in the online MsTeams environment due to the covid-19 pandemic.
The link to join the MsTeams team for this subject will be distributed to all registered participants.

WEEK ONE: INRODUCTION

WEEK TWO: INTELLECTUALS AND THE CITY

Paul M. Hohenberg and Lynn Hollen Lees, The Making of Urban Europe, chapter 8: The Human Consequences of Industrial Urbanization

Carl E. Schorske: The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler

Georg Simmel: The Metropolis and Mental Life

WEEK THREE: EAST CENTRAL EUROPE GOES INDUSTRIAL: ŁÓDŹ

Agata Zysiak et al.: From Cotton and Smoke, chapter one

The Promised Land by Andrzej Wajda

WEEK FOUR: CONSTRUCTING an IMPERIAL CAPITAL: VIENNA

Carl E. Schoerske: The Ringstrasse and Its Critics

WEEK FIVE: CONSTRUCTING a NATIONAL CAPITAL: BUDAPEST

Peter Hanak: Urbanization and Civilization

John Lukacs: Budapest 1900, chapter 2

WEEK SIX: The LANGUAGE of ARCHITECTURE

Anthony Alofsin: When Buildings Speak, chapter 1: The Language of History

WEEK SEVEN: The LANGUAGE of MEMORIES

Walter Benjamnin: Berlin Childhood

Czesław Miłosz: The City of my Youth

WEEK EIGHT: A CONTESTED CITY: LVIV

Hugo Lane: The Ukrainian Theatre and the Polish Opera

Aleksander Łupienko, Localness, Identity, and the Historic City. New Elites in the Autonomous Galician Lviv

WEEK NINE: MUNICIPALITY and the STATE