architecture and urban studies(42)

Making the Most of Tomorrow

Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When ...

A Laboratory of Socialist Modernity in Czechoslovakia

Renaissance Prague

At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and, later, the first Habsburg rulers sat on the Bohemian throne, the visual sty...

Prague: University Town

Prague has been a centre of university education for almost seven centuries. It was 7 April 1348 when Charles IV, king of Bohemia and fut...

Praha univerzitní

Prague has been a center of university education for almost seven centuries. It was on April 7, 1348, that Charles IV, King of Bohemia an...

Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities

This volume deals with the materialization of identity in urban space. Urban spaces played an important role in the formation of national...

Praha barokní

Baroque Prague, covers the period in the history of Prague starting with the Battle of White Mountain through the Enlightenment, from 162...

Praha secesní

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Prague underwent a radical transformation, once again becoming a prestigious center for the l...

Ruprechtice: veřejný prostor podle mentálních map

The reestablishment of democracy and civic society in the Czech Republic after 1990 was also associated with new challenges concerning th...

Mariánský sloup na Hradčanském náměstí

This monograph presents a complete "biography” of one of the most interesting and largest sculptural and architectural works erected in B...

The Country House Revisited

This monograph provides an insight into English country house fiction by twentieth and twenty-first century authors, with a focus on the ...

Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst

Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Largely unknown small towns, always in the shadow of famous cities, are mostly overlooked by historical research. English, Spanish, Portu...

Heritage and Development Strategies

Praha renesanční

In this book, the scholar paints a vivid picture of Prague at the time when the Jagiellons and first Habsburgs rulers sat on the Bohemian...