Narrating the City: Histories, Space and the Everyday

266 Pages·2015·0.22 MB·English

by  Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier

Narrating the City
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Narrating the City
Histories, Space, and the Everyday
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Narrating the city : histories, space, and the everyday / edited by Wladimir
Fischer-Nebmaier, Matthew P. Berg, and Anastasia Christou.
pages cm. — (Space and place ; volume 15)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-78238-775-6 (hardback : acid-free paper) —
ISBN 978-1-78238-776-3 (ebook)
1. City and town life—Historiography. 2. City and town life in literature.
3. City and town life in motion pictures. 4. Working class—Historiography.
5. Middle class—Historiography. 6. Public spaces—Historiography.
7. Community life—Historiography. 8. Narration (Rhetoric) 9. Discourse
analysis, Narrative. I. Fischer-Nebmaier, Wladimir. II. Berg, Matthew Paul,
1961– III. Christou, Anastasia.
HT113.N36 2015
307.76—dc23
2015003123
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Space, Narration, and the Everyday 1
Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier
Part I. Narratives and Images of the City
Chapter 1. Th e Case of Ossifi cation: Contemporary Narratives
about Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century L’viv 59
Andriy Zayarnyuk
Chapter 2. Th e Masa’s Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas:
Th e Testimony of Novels, 1920s–1970s 75
Arturo Almandoz
Chapter 3. Reimagining Nieuwland: Narrative Mapping and
the Mental Geography of Urban Space in a Dutch Multiethnic
Neighborhood 97
Leeke Reinders
Part II. Claiming Urban Space
Chapter 4. City and Cinema as Spaces for (Transnational)
Grassroots Mobilization: Perspectives from Southeastern
and Central Europe 139
Anna Schober
Chapter 5. Adjudicating Lodging: Denazifi cation, Housing
Requisition, and Identity in “Red Vienna,” 1945–1948 175
Matthew P. Berg
Part III. Living and Working in the City
Chapter 6. Urban Information Flows: Workers’ and Employers’
Knowledge of the Asbestos Hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950s–1970s 199
Ronald Johnston and Arthur McIvor
vi Contents
Chapter 7. Creating a Familiar Space: Child Care, Kinship, and
Community in Postsocialist New Zagreb 219
Tihana Rubić and Carolin Leutloff -Grandits
Index 243
Figures
2.1. Plan of Caracas, 1934, by Juan Röhl 76
2.2. Plano regulador, or master plan, 1951 77
2.3. Cartoon of Juan Bimba and student, 1936 83
2.4. Central Caracas, ca. 1950 85
2.5. Postcard of Sabana Grande, ca. 1960 87
2.6. Postcard of Plaza Venezuela from Los Caobos, ca. 1960 88
3.1. A view of neighborhood square Wibautplein 107
3.2. Communal playground in the middle of a block of
prefabricated apartment fl ats 108
3.3. Interstitial zone between new middle-class housing
and a strip of neighborhood stores and apartment blocks
built in the 1950s 108
3.4. “Th e new gardens”: a block of new middle-class housing 109
3.5. Map by Margiet 111
3.6. Current residence of Margiet, located across from the spot
where her former apartment building was located 114
3.7. Map by Hans 115
3.8. Map by Tineke 119
3.9. Map by Natasha 121
3.10. Block of fl ats opposite Natasha’s new dwelling 123
4.1. Film still from Silver City Revisited, 1968, Wim Wenders 157
4.2. Film still from Silver City Revisited, 1968, Wim Wenders 158
4.3. Film still from Eve of Destruction, Ljubljana 1966 160
4.4. Film still from Eve of Destruction, Ljubljana 1966 161
viii Figures
7.1. Travno Detailed Urban Developement Plan (Detaljni
urbanistički plan), 1:1,000, 1972 222
7.2. Grandmothers looking after their grandchildren in the park
in Travno 232
7.3. Grandmother looking after her grandchild in the park in
Travno 233
Acknowledgements
T
his project had its origins in 2006. Over the years, our contributors
have advanced their research in ways that have informed their chap-
ters, such that they have come to represent important elements of our
colleagues’ larger research agendas. Th e editors extend their heartfelt
thanks to our contributors for their support and good cheer through
the long development of this volume. Th ey have been ideal colleagues.
Special thanks go to Caroline Varlet and Katie Mooney.
Th e Editors