Foreword to Habsburg Lemberg by Gary B. Cohen

What is it about?

Markian Prokopovych offers here a fresh and original history of architecture, public celebrations, and public space in Lemberg/Lwów/L’viv, the capital of Austrian Galicia from the late eighteenth century to World War I. This book can serve as a model for writing the history of modern urban design in Central European cities with ethnically mixed populations and competing nationalist political movements. The study focuses on the interaction of politicians, cultural leaders, and architects and engineers in Lemberg with the Habsburg imperial center and its various provincial and local agents.

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