planned lectures european cities and culture heltai

EUROPEAN CITIES AND CULTURE
Dr. Gyöngyi Heltai - Hungarian Visiting Professor
Course Description:
The principal objective of the seminar is to explore interlinks between urban and cultural
development in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The seminar will embrace the diverse
fields of culture related to urban history: theatre, museum, urban planning, and architecture.
Course Objectives and Expected Learning Outcomes:
Cultural history will provide the method to examine the European cities as products of modern
society. On the examples of Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Budapest, Cracow, etc. we will analyze the
formation and the history of cultural districts in metropolitan cities.
Students will be introduced to the concepts of cultural transfer, cosmopolitanism, cultural district,
tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and historic urban landscape.
Lectures & Assigned Readings:
Topic
INTRODUCTION

Readings
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PARIS - URBAN PLANNING

“Vienna and Paris, 1850-1930: The Development
of the Modern City,” in Merry E. Wiesner,
ed., Discovering the Past.

LONDON – COSMOPOLITAN
CULTURE
VIENNA – MUSIC IN THE
CITY
BUDAPEST –
COMPARATIVE

PERSPECTIVE
CRACOW – MUSEUM
STUDIES
PARIS – EXOTICISM IN CITY
CULTURE

BERLIN – CULTURE, AND
POLITICS

Harvey, D. Paris, Capital of Modernity. New York:
Routledge. 2004. pp. 209-224.
Kathryn Wilkins, “The most exclusive village in
the world”: The Utilization of Space by the
Victorian Aristocracy during the London Season”.
Urban History Review, 2011, 40 (1), pp. 5-16.
Peter Hall, “The City as Pleasure Principle,
Vienna 1780-1910”. In: Peter Hall, Cities in
Civilization, Pantheon Book, New York, 1998. pp.
171-200.
Péter Hanák, The garden and the workshop:
essays on the cultural history of Vienna and
Budapest, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1998, pp. 3-44.
Maud Guichard-Marneur, “Drafting Futures: The
Birth of the Museum Institution in Cracow, 1868–
1939,” Centropa 12, no. 2. 2012. pp.114-130.
Nicola Savarese and Richard Fowler: “Antonin
Artaud Sees Balinese Theatre at the Paris
Colonial Exposition”. In: TDR Vol. 45, No. 3
Autumn, 2001. pp. 51-77.

Peter Hall, “The invention of the Twentieth
Century, Berlin 1918-1933”, In Cities in
civilization, New York: Pantheon Book, New


NEW CONCEPTS IN URBAN
RESEARCH: WORLD
HERITAGE

York, 1998, pp. 239-279.
Francesco Bandarin, Contemporary Views on
Urbanism and Landscape, In: Reconnecting the
City. The Historic Urban Landscape Approach
and the Future of Urban Heritage, John Wiley &
Sons, London, 2015, pp. 1-16.

NEW CONCEPTS IN URBAN
RESEARCH: HISTORIC
URBAN LANDSCAPE

Gábor Sonkoly Historical Urban Landscape,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, – A Conceptual
Analysis, 1-8.

NEW CONCEPTS IN URBAN
RESEARCH: INDUSTRIAL
HERITAGE

CEx-post evaluation of 2010. European Capitals
of Culture. pp. 53-73.