This landmark edited collection investigates parks as places of pivotal significance in the social, cultural, architectural and economic history of the Balkan capitals.

Autorentext

Alexandra Milanova, PhD, is assistant professor at the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is also a lecturer at Sofia University and Osaka University. She has been repeatedly awarded for her outstanding achievements in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences. Alexandra is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a councillor of Europeana Network Association, and the first and only representative of Bulgaria to date in the Global Youth Academy (GYA). Ana-Maria Lep r, PhD, is a member of the Balkan History Association. In 2015, she completed her doctoral dissertation on the history of Bucharest in the 18th and 19th centuries at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History at the Romanian Academy, Bucharest. Between 2013 and 2021, she was assistant lecturer in history at the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest. Her research focuses on the history of Bucharest in the modern period.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments - List of Figures - Introduction - Part I Parks and city modernization - University Park in Belgrade: The Spatial Structure of (In)visible Memory. Milja Mladenovic - Narrating the Hidden Center: Exploring the Everyday Naming of Belgrade's Park Luke Celovic and Rewriting of Non-place from the Margins, Simon Campbell. Marta Stojic Mitrovic - Belgrade Parks in the Urban Landscape Transformation, Dragana Corovic, Zlata Vuksanovic-Macura, Nevena Vasiljevic. Marija Milinkovic - Parks as Sites of Nation-building: A Case Study of Belgrade's Tas majdan. Madeline Stull - Episodes from the City Park in Skopje, Violeta Bakalchev, Sasha Tasic, Aleksandar Petanovski. Minas Bakalchev - Stefan cel Mare si Sfânt Public Garden-The Green Heart of Chisinau. Alina Ostapov - Part II Parks as place of conspiracies - The Parks of Sofia-Spaces for Occult Societies (1890s-1980s). Georgeta Nazarska - Part III Parks in literature - Literary Representations of the Park Zrinjevac in Croatian Interwar Prose (1918-1941). Patrycja Chajecka - Part IV Uncommon parks-church courtyards as city parks - "Between Religious and Secular Life in Town": Church Courtyards that Also Function as Parks: The Ethnographic Example of the Church of St. Antonios in the Municipality of Peristeri, Athens, Greece. Georgios Ch. Kouzas - Notes on Contributors