Category Archives: Second World Urbanity

Exhibition–Flying Panels

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Steven E. Harris

If you’re in Stockholm, be sure to check out the exhibition “Flying Panels: How Concrete Panels Changed the World,” curated by Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola. See the following link for a full description.

Special Issue of the Journal of Architecture

Posted on October 21, 2019 by dashabocharnicova

We are happy to present a new publication by SWU group – Urban Planning and Architecture of Late Socialism. Ed. by Daria Bocharnikova & Andres Kurg. A special issue of The Journal of Architecture Volume 24 (5) 2019. This special … Continue reading →

Re-Centering the City

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Steven E. Harris

Forthcoming to your reading list in 2020… Re-Centering the City: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity, edited by Jonathan Bach and Michal Murowski.

Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Steven E. Harris

If you’re in New York, bee sure to see this upcoming exhibition on Yugoslavia’s architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, opening July 15. See the exhibition description and information below. And before going to the exhibition, be sure to … Continue reading →

Response to the forum by Tarik Cyril Amar

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Tarik Cyril Amar

First of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude to the organizers and contributors of this forum; their initiative and work are much appreciated. In the following, I will discuss (not very systematically, I am afraid) several points … Continue reading →

Shared Paradoxes of European Borderlands

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Tom Williams

In this thoroughly researched monograph, Tarik Cyril Amar examines the turbulent, violent processes which transformed the multi-ethnic borderland city previously known as Lemberg (in German) or Lwów (in Polish) into the Soviet and Ukrainian city of Lviv. While the city … Continue reading →

Reading Lviv through the Lens of Modern Chinese History

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Christian A. Hess

I’d like to thank the organizers of the Second World Modernity project for affording me the opportunity to review this book, which I read with great interest and some trepidation. As a specialist in Modern Chinese urban history, my grasp … Continue reading →

Summer school “Sykhiv: Spaces, Memories, Practices”.

Posted on April 14, 2017 by dashabocharnicova

Center for Urban History invites applications for the summer school “Sykhiv: Spaces, Memories, Practices”. Dates: August 13-27, 2017 Venue: Center for Urban History. Lviv, Ukraine Deadline for applications: May 1, 2017 [Сall for Applications] Sykhiv is the biggest housing estate … Continue reading →

EAUH_Rome2018_call for panels

Posted on January 16, 2017 by dashabocharnicova

Dear Colleagues and Friends, You are warmly invited to take part in the 14th International Conference on Urban History “Urban Renewal and Resilience. Cities in comparative perspective” which will take place in Rome from August 29 to September 1, 2018. The call for session proposals … Continue reading →

CfP: The Ins and Outs of Socialism, Lviv, August 25-27, 2017

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Steven E. Harris

The Ins and Outs of Socialism: Visions and Experiences of Urban Change in the Second World August 25-27, 2017 Center for Urban History / Lviv / Ukraine the-ins-and-outs-of-socialism-en This conference aims at bringing together scholars who study different time periods … Continue reading →