Articles
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Prague’s Old Town was thoroughly rebuilt and modernised over the two previous centuries. What one can see today is the shape the historic centre was given in the second half of the 19th c., during the Belle Époque, in the interwar period and, partly, after the World War II. The story of this metamorphosis is related in the monumental Město v bouři. Urbanismus a architektura historického centra Prahy 1830–1970 by Richard Biegel, a Czech historian of art from the Charles University in Prague (2022). The large-format, superbly illustrated book is a treasury of knowledge on the formation of Prague’s “city” and the disappearance of its prior picturesque architecture. It shows that, like in Vienna and Paris, demolition was massive in the centre of Prague, where streets were straightened, new traffic routes were laid out, and huge houses were erected alongside new department stores. The article discusses the content of Biegel’s study, offering numerous comments and research recommendations. With its precious, multifarious exploration of Prague’s “city”, the volume gives a fresh impulse to the comparative study of Central European towns.
Biegel Richard, Město v bouři. Urbanismus a architektura historického centra Prahy 1830–1970, Praha 2022.
Brůhová Klára, Praha nepostavená. Vltavské břehy jako urbanistické téma moderní metropole, Praha 2018.
Brůhová Klára, Pražské vize. Fantastické stavby, které nikdy nevznikly, Praha 2018.
Giustino Cathleen M., Tearing Down Prague’s Jewish Town: Ghetto Clearance and the Legacy of Middle Class Ethnic Politics around 1900, New York 2003.
Hnídková Vendula, Národní styl. Kultura a politika, Praha 2013.
Nekula Marek, Tod und Auferstehung der tschechischen Nation. Der Traum vom Pantheon in der tschechischen Literatur und Kultur, Köln 2017.
Němec Richard, Die Ökonomisierung des Raums. Planen und Bauen in Mittel- und Osteuropa unter den Nationalsozialisten 1938 bis 1945, Berlin 2020.
Němec-Tobler Richard, Ekonomizace prostoru. Urbanismus a architektura ve střední a východní Evropě pod vládou nacistů 1938–1945, přel. V. Čadský, Praha 2024.
Piekalski Jerzy, Prague, Wroclaw and Krakow: Public and Private Space at the Time of the Medieval Transition, Wrocław 2014.
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https://doi.org/10.19195/2449-9285.72.8
