Malgorzata Hanzl

Jewish Culture and Urban Form (eBook, PDF)

A Case Study of Central Poland before the Holocaust

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Across a range of disciplines, urban morphology has offered lenses through which we can read the city. Reading the urban form, when conflated with ethnographic studies, enables us to return to past situations and recreate the long-gone everyday life. Urbanscapes - the artefacts of urban life - have left us the story portrayed in the pages of this book.

The notions of time and space contribute to depicting the Jewish-Polish culture in central Poland before the Holocaust. The research proves that Jewish society in pre-Holocaust Poland was an example of self-organising complexity. Through bottom-up activities, it had a significant impact on the unique character of the spaces left behind. Several features confirm this influence. Not only do the edifices, both public and private, convey meanings related to the Jewish culture, but public and semi-private space also tell the story of long-gone social situations. The specific atmosphere that still lingers there recalls the long-gone Jewish culture, with the unique settlement patterns indicating a separate spatial order. The Author reveals to the international cast of practitioners and theorists of urban and Jewish studies a vivid and comprehensive account.

This book will appeal to researchers and students alike studying Jewish communities in Poland and Jewish-Polish society and urbanisation, as well as all those interested in Jewish-Polish Culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000684674
• Artikelnr.: 64720810

Autorenporträt

Malgorzata Hanzl is Architect and urban planner, PhD with habilitation. Associate Professor at the Lodz University of Technology and a lecturer at Warsaw University of Technology. Member of the Urban Morphology Editorial Board. Fulbright Fellow in SENSEable CityLab, MIT (2014). Vice President of ISOCARP (2017-2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I. Introduction: Culture-specific Urban Structures Analyses
Chapter II. Methodology
Chapter III. Depicting the complexity of Jewish settlements in central Poland
Chapter IV. Case studies
Chapter V. Conclusions

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Chapter I. Introduction: Culture-specific Urban Structures Analyses / Chapter II. Methodology / Chapter III. Depicting the complexity of Jewish settlements in central Poland / Chapter IV. Case studies / Chapter V. Conclusions