Tag: modernisation

Problematic Aspects in the Historiography of Romanian Architecture

Issue: 2013, Volume 47, No. 1 - 2

“All [of these countries] seem to be governed by the same principle of the identity crisis, of the conflictive absorption of contradictory cultural waves, of a provincial model, low-keyed, but haunted by failure and lack of perspective. All seem to struggle between the majoritarian indifference and the elite’s schizophrenia, all seem to have something in […]

Planning of Bohemian regional centres in the period of their industrialisation and modernisation: Pilsen and Hradec Králové

Issue: 2020, Volume 54, No. 1 - 2

Almost all towns in Central Europe north of the Danube were laid by a planned foundation, mostly in the 12th to 14th centuries. They retained the original extent and spatial structure until the industrial revolution. Only then some of them faced the challenge of unpreceded growth. So that this growth could be managed, city administrations […]