Eastern Drama. Capitals of Eastern Europe, 1830S–2006: An Introductory Overview

The theme of this part of the Review differs from the current mainstream of urban sociology, which is largely preoccupied with questions of political economy, around the buzzword of ‘global cities’, and/or of urban inequality, and focused on the present. Here the perspective is historical, and with a particular, if by no means exclusive, attention to changes of culture and symbolism. The approach is multidisciplinary, with major contributions by art, architectural, and cultural historians, as well as by social scientists.