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Habsburg Lemberg - Architecture, Public Space, and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914 (Paperback)
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Habsburg Lemberg - Architecture, Public Space, and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914 (Paperback)
Series: Central European Studies
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When Austria annexed Galicia during the first partition of Poland
in 1772, the province's capital Lemberg was a decaying Baroque
town. By the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Lemberg had
become a booming city with a modern, urban and, at the same time,
distinctly Habsburg flavor. In the process of the ""long""
nineteenth century both Lemberg's appearance and the use of public
space changed remarkably. The city center was transformed into a
showcase of modernity and a site of conflicting symbolic
representations, while other areas were left decrepit, overcrowded
and neglected.""Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space, and
Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914"" reveals that behind a
variety of national, and positivist historical narratives of
Lemberg - and of its architecture - there always existed a city
that was labeled ""cosmopolitan"" yet ""provincial;"" and a Vienna,
but still ""of the East."" Buildings, streets, parks and monuments
became part and parcel of a complex set of culturally driven
politics. The modern architecture influenced the portrayal of the
Lemberg populace as much more sophisticated than they actually
were.
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