Fin de millénaire Budapest
Subtitle: metamorphoses of urban life
By: Judit Bodnaŕ.
Series: Globalization and community ;; v. 8
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Europe, Eastern.; Post-communism.; Globalization.; Budapest (Hungary) -- Social conditions.
Description: "With the collapse of state socialism, the people of Budapest are re-arranging their points of reference as the cityscape's familiar signposts disappear. Through Budapest's example, Judit Bodnar shows how the postsocialist experience of east-central European cities offers a fresh and instructive view of our general farewell to modernity.".

"Fin de Millenaire Budapest combines historical narratives and ethnographic accounts with quantitative evidence to create a detailed picture of a city subjected to the forces of great local and global change. In the privatizing of public space, the decline of manufacturing, the rapid growth of services, and the opening of opportunities for entrepreneurs, Bodnar captures global urban patterns - with a distinct, central European accent.

In particular, she shows tensions between the liberating and fragmenting effects of the increasingly private use of urban space and some ways in which the new urban patterns both resemble and transcend cultural patterns from Budapest's socialist past."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Constructing difference : western versus non-western, capitalist versus socialist urban logic; title: "he that hath to him shall be given" : inequalities of housing privatization; title: Inner city doubly renewed : global phenomenon, local accents; title: Assembling the square : social transformation in public space and the broken mirage of the second economy; title: Globalizing art and consumption : art movies and shopping malls; title: Urban texture unraveling : fragmentation of the city; title: Conclusion.