Reviews

Author:

Michał Murawski

Reviewer:

Patryk Babiracki

Babiracki on Murawski, 'The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed'

Michał Murawski. The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed. New Anthropologies of Europe Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. Illustrations, maps. 376 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-03996-5; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-03994-1.

Reviewed by Patryk Babiracki (University of Texas-Arlington) Published on H-Urban (June, 2020) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)

Author:

Pedro Fiori Arantes

Reviewer:

Miguel Calvo Salve

Calvo Salve on Arantes, 'The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age'

Pedro Fiori Arantes. The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age. Translated by Adriana Kauffmann. Buell Center Books in the History and Theory of American Architecture Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 312 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8166-9929-2; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8166-9928-5.

Reviewed by Miguel Calvo Salve (Marywood University) Published on H-Urban (February, 2020) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)

Author:

Miriam Paeslack

Reviewer:

Pepper Stetler

Stetler on Paeslack, 'Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the Metropolis'

Miriam Paeslack. Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the Metropolis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 216 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-0295-7.

Reviewed by Pepper Stetler (Miami University of Ohio) Published on H-Urban (November, 2019) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54356

Author:

Silvia Bermúdez, Anthony L. Geist, eds.

Reviewer:

Benjamin Fraser

Fraser on Bermúdez and Geist, 'Cartographies of Madrid: Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of the Global South and Global North'

Silvia Bermúdez, Anthony L. Geist, eds. Cartographies of Madrid: Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of the Global South and Global North. Hispanic Issues Series. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2019. 232 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8265-2215-3.

Reviewed by Benjamin Fraser (The University of Arizona) Published on H-Urban (November, 2019) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)

Author:

Derek Sayer

Reviewer:

Karla Huebner

Huebner on Sayer, 'Prague: Crossroads of Europe'

Derek Sayer. Prague: Crossroads of Europe. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. 280 pp. $22.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78914-009-5.

Reviewed by Karla Huebner (Wright State University) Published on H-Urban (July, 2019) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)

Author:

Rupert Christiansen

Reviewer:

Richard Hopkins

Hopkins on Christiansen, 'City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris'

Rupert Christiansen. City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris. New York: Basic Books, 2018. 224 pp. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5416-7339-7.

Reviewed by Richard Hopkins (Widener University) Published on H-Urban (July, 2019) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)

Author:

Ipek Türeli

Reviewer:

Virginie Rey

Rey on Türeli, 'Istanbul Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity'

Ipek Türeli. Istanbul Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. Illustrations. 184 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4094-2211-2.

Reviewed by Virginie Rey (University of California-Irvine) Published on H-Urban (October, 2018) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52941

Author:

Paul Dobraszczyk, Carlos López Galviz, Bradley L. Garrett, eds.

Reviewer:

Peter S. Soppelsa

Soppelsa on Dobraszczyk and Galviz and Garrett, 'Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within'

Paul Dobraszczyk, Carlos López Galviz, Bradley L. Garrett, eds. Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within. Islington: Reaktion Books, 2016. Illustrations. 320 pp. $29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78023-576-9.

Reviewed by Peter S. Soppelsa (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-Urban (July, 2018) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)

Author:

Aaron Freundschuh

Reviewer:

Elisa Camiscioli

Camiscioli on Freundschuh, 'The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris'

Aaron Freundschuh. The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 272 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0082-9.

Reviewed by Elisa Camiscioli (SUNY-Binghamton) Published on H-Urban (May, 2018) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)

Author:

Simon Ward

Reviewer:

Jan Musekamp

Musekamp on Ward, 'Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City 1957-2012'

Simon Ward. Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City 1957-2012. Cities and Cultures Series. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. 212 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-8964-853-2.

Reviewed by Jan Musekamp (Europa-Universität Viadrina) Published on H-Urban (February, 2018) Commissioned by Alexander Vari

Author:

Alexia M. Yates

Reviewer:

Philipp Reick

Reick on Yates, 'Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital'

Alexia M. Yates. Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. Maps, tables. 368 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-08821-4.

Reviewed by Philipp Reick (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Published on H-Urban (April, 2017) Commissioned by Alexander Vari

Author:

Antoine Lilti

Reviewer:

Jolanta Pekacz

Pekacz on Lilti, 'The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris'

Antoine Lilti. The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 344 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-977234-6.

Reviewed by Jolanta Pekacz (Dalhousie University) Published on H-Urban (December, 2016) Commissioned by Alexander Vari

In Pursuit of Pleasure: Salons as Worldly Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Author:

Harold Bérubé

Reviewer:

Dan Horner

Horner on Bérubé, 'Des sociétés distinctes: Gouverner les banlieues bourgeoises de Montréal, 1880-1939'

Harold Bérubé. Des sociétés distinctes: Gouverner les banlieues bourgeoises de Montréal, 1880-1939. Studies on the History of Quebec Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. 288 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-4393-5; $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-4392-8.

Reviewed by Dan Horner (Ryerson University) Published on H-Urban (December, 2015) Commissioned by Alexander Vari

Author:

Mary Lindemann

Reviewer:

Donald Harreld

Harreld on Lindemann, 'The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790'

Mary Lindemann. The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 374 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-07443-9.

Reviewed by Donald Harreld (Brigham Young University) Published on H-Urban (October, 2015) Commissioned by Alexander Vari

The Virtues of Merchant Republics

Author:

Brigitte Le Normand

Reviewer:

Tijana Stevanović

Stevanović on Le Normand, 'Designing Tito's Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism in Belgrade'

Brigitte Le Normand. Designing Tito's Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism in Belgrade. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. Illustrations. 320 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6299-1.

Reviewed by Tijana Stevanović (Newcastle University) Published on H-Urban (August, 2015) Commissioned by Alexander Vari

The Freedom to Choose: The Housing Question and Self-Managed Urban Planning in Belgrade

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Babiracki on Murawski, 'The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed'

Calvo Salve on Arantes, 'The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age'

Stetler on Paeslack, 'Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the Metropolis'

Fraser on Bermúdez and Geist, 'Cartographies of Madrid: Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of the Global South and Global North'

Huebner on Sayer, 'Prague: Crossroads of Europe'

Hopkins on Christiansen, 'City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris'

Rey on Türeli, 'Istanbul Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity'

Soppelsa on Dobraszczyk and Galviz and Garrett, 'Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within'

Camiscioli on Freundschuh, 'The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris'

Musekamp on Ward, 'Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City 1957-2012'

Reick on Yates, 'Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital'

Pekacz on Lilti, 'The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris'

Horner on Bérubé, 'Des sociétés distinctes: Gouverner les banlieues bourgeoises de Montréal, 1880-1939'

Harreld on Lindemann, 'The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790'

Stevanović on Le Normand, 'Designing Tito's Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism in Belgrade'

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