Urbanization in Southeastern Europe displays significant idiosyncrasies. While the region was predominantly rural long into the 20th century, cities grew rapidly after WW II, causing deep socio-cultural changes which gained in momentum after the end of socialism. The articles in this volume, originally presented at the conference „Urban Life and Culture in Southeastern Europe“ in Belgrade, May 2005, explore these changes past and present, focusing on urban culture, social topography, urban planning, and urban-rural relations.
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Urban structure and planning, architecture
Maximilian Hartmuth, Istanbul Negotiating Tradition and Ambition: Comparative Perspective on the “De-Ottomanization” of the Balkan Cityscapes
Marija Maksin-Mićić, Belgrade Peripheral Zones of Serbian Towns: Spatial Development and Way of Life
Katarina Višnar, Ljubljana Evaluating the Spatial Context of the Suburban
Ermis Lafazanovski, Skopje Skopje: Nostalgic Places and Utopian Spaces
Cristofer Scarboro, Urbana Socialist Humanism on Tour: Monuments, Public Spaces and Subjectivity in Haskovo, Bulgaria
Urban – rural relations
Konstantina Bada, Ioannina Revealing the historicity of migrant women. Moving from mountain areas to the provincial urban centers of Greece. The case of Agrinio
Rory Yeoman, Peckham Urban Visions and Rural Utopias: Literature and the Building of a Nationalist Consensus in Croatia, 1924–1945
Social topography, ethnic and gender relations
Siegfried Gruber, Graz The Quarters of Shkodra in 1918: Differences and Similarities
Mirjana Pavlović, Belgrade Center – Periphery: The Ethnicity of Serbs in Timişoara
Ana Luleva und Cvetana Bončeva, Sofia Konstruktion von Identitäten in Grenzzonen. Interkulturelle Geschlechterbeziehungen am bulgarisch-griechischen Beispiel
Ivanka Petrova, Sofia Geschlechterrollen in einem internationalen Unternehmen in Sofia
Urban culture, urbanity
Aleksandar R. Miletić, Belgrade Insights into Urban Life, Cultural Change, and Modernization in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, 1918–1928
Ivana Spasić, Belgrade ASFALT: The Construction of Urbanity in Everyday Discourse in Serbia
Vesna Vučinić-Nešković and Jelena Miloradović, Belgrade Corso as a Total Social Phenomenon: the Case of Smederevska Palanka, Serbia
Aleksandra Pavićević, Belgrade Cremation as an Urban Phenomenon of the New Age. From Ecology to Ideology: the Serbian Case
Popular culture in the city
Ivana Kronja, Belgrade New Urban Trends in Serbia, 1990–2004: From Urban Life to Popular Culture and Vice Versa
Dragana Antonijević and Ljubomir Hristić, Belgrade Belgrade Graffiti: Anthropological Insights into Anonymous Public Expressions of “Worldview”
Orli Fridman, Arlington Alternative Voices in Public Urban Space: Serbia’s Women in Black
Ana Hofman and Iva Tarabić, Belgrade Roma Musicians as Tradesmen in Urban Cultural Environments
Raluca Nagy and Cristina Plecadite, Cluj-Napoca Consuming Electronic Music in Bucharest: “Low-Profile” Locations and Their Public
Raluca Petre, Bucharest The Reconfiguration of Leisure in Transition: Pubs and Friendship in Constanţa
Iva Filipova-Kyurkchieva, Sofia Football and Political Symbolism in Bulgaria in the 1980s and 1990s
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