Making the Most of Tomorrow: A North Bohemian Laboratory of Socialist Modernism (Václav Havel) - Tapa blanda

Spurny, Matej

 
9788024640174: Making the Most of Tomorrow: A North Bohemian Laboratory of Socialist Modernism (Václav Havel)
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ISBN 10: 8024640171 ISBN 13: 9788024640174
Editorial: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic, 2019

Sinopsis

Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When plans to redevelop the city began, hope and expectations ran high; in the end, however, Most became a symbol for the heartless incompetence of Czechoslovak communism.

In this book, Matěj Spurný explores the historical city of Most from the nineteenth century into the years following World War II, investigating the decision to destroy it as well as the negotiations concerning the spirit of the proposed new city. Situating postwar Most in the context of cultural and social shifts in Czechoslovakia and Europe as a whole, Spurný traces the path a medieval city took to become a showcase of brutalist architecture and the regime’s technicist inhumanity.

But the book, like the city of Most itself, does not end in tragedy. Fusing architectural and political history with urban and environmental studies, Spurný’s tale shows the progress that can be made when Czechs confront the crimes of the past―including the expulsion of local Germans and the treatment of the Romani minority―and engage with rational, contemporary European concepts of urban renewal.

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Matej Spurný is associate professor in the Department of Economic and Social History at Charles University, Prague, where he specializes in modern social history, Czech multiculturalism and modern European dictatorships. Derek Paton has been a translator of works of Czech history, politics, and art history for more than twenty-five years, twenty of which he has translated together with his wife Marzia Patton.

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Editorial
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
8024640171
ISBN 13 
9788024640174
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
330
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