Imperial urbanism in the borderlands : Kyiv, 1800-1905 /

"In the nineteenth and early twentieth century Kyiv was an important city in the European part of the Russian empire, rivaling Warsaw in economic and strategic significance. It also held the unrivaled spiritual and ideological position as Russia's own Jerusalem. In Imperial Urbanism in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bilenʹkyĭ, Serhiĭ (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press [2018]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt22rbk89
Table of Contents:
  • Mapping the city in transition
  • Using the past : the great cemetery of Rus'
  • Municipal autonomy under the Magdeburg law, 1800-1835
  • Planning a new city : empire transforms space, 1835-1870
  • Municipal autonomy reloaded : space for sale, 1871-1905
  • Counting Kyivites : the language of class, religion, and ethnicity
  • Municipal elites and "urban regimes" : continuities and disruptions
  • Sociospatial form and psychogeography
  • What language did the monuments speak?