A Tale of Second Cities: Autonomy, Culture, and the Law in Hamburg and Barcelona in the Late Nineteenth Century

Umbach, Maiken

doi:10.1086/ahr.110.3.659

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“…The first is the increasingly important role played by cities as places of memory, as objects of identification and as generators of very specific forms of intermediate identity that link the nation to buildings, architecture and urban planning as a specific form of conquering space and nature. 7 The second is the more ambiguous place occupied by supralocal entities that vary in importance throughout Europe, but which mediate between the regional level (the imagined community that is not inherently sovereign) and the local sphere (the living spaces of daily life where physical interaction and mutual knowledge is possible). These are the Kreis in Germany, the contrée in France, the paese or paesino in Italy and the comarca in Spain.…”

Section: Localism Regionalism Nationalism and Imperialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conclusion: Overcoming Methodological Regionalism

Seixas¹,

Storm²

2019

Regionalism and Modern Europe

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Section: Localism Regionalism Nationalism and Imperialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conclusion: Overcoming Methodological Regionalism

Seixas¹,

Storm²

2019

Regionalism and Modern Europe

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“…Even if the specific form of expressions appears in many cases as a nostalgic symbol of a distant past, often replaced by modern forms of cultural activity, port cities succeed in making use of their traditional ability to cope with diversity and with transient visitors. In such cases local culture serves as a resource for new or modernized services and economically successful regeneration [17].…”

Section: Port Cities As Hubs Of Flows: Foreignness As Normalitymentioning

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The Transformation of Port Cities: Local Culture and the Post-Industrial Maritime City

Warsewa¹

2017

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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Regardless of size or location, port cities were strongly affected by industrial decline and forced to reinvent themselves. The port city we once knew was coined by a particular identity and culture, but now a new type of maritime city emerges with high-tech production, research institutions, tourism, leisure and other services. So, the port city in western countries underwent serious changes in its historic development path. In this process of transformation, one of the most important challenges was and is to change thinking and mentalities. The more distinctive the port city, the more exclusive and specialised its profile, culture and character-products of a historic legacy of maritime trading, seafaring, shipbuilding and all their related productive and service capacities-the greater the difficulty of responding to these challenges. Nonetheless, the changing patterns of local structures reflect essential elements and expressions of a typical local culture. The following reflections will argue that (1) "local culture" forms a third factor besides the socioeconomic structures and the institutional system, which strongly determines the local development; (2) this "local culture" is more or less a common characteristic of port cities all over Europe and in the western industrialised parts of the world, which have their roots in the European history (i.e. in USA or Australia) and (3) even today the typical maritime "local culture" plays an important role for the development of the postmodern port city, in spite of the strong forces of globalisation. Local culture affects the process of transformation by various functions. Hence, the typical development paths of port cities are not just pure adaptations to global dynamics. They are more an expression of a certain cultural autonomy reproducing the individuality and the diversity of port cities as well as their differences to the territorial, inland towns.

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“…This shrine can be included in a long list of structures created across Europe since the nineteenth century to define, redefine, and propagate variously understood national communities. Not only monuments, but also buildings (Umbach 2005) and whole city districts (Stortkuhl 2012) have been used in order to achieve political gains. Scholars have pointed to various aspects of architecture that have the potential to deliver symbolic meaning (Crowley and Reid 2002;Duncan 2005;Laswell 1979;Sonne 2003).…”

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The Sanctuary of a sacred nation: National discourse in the style and décor of the Licheń Sanctuary

Kisiel

2016

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The Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń, located near Konin in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, provides a unique insight into a nationalistic discourse in contemporary Poland. It was created not only as a Catholic shrine but also as a place of patriotic indoctrination. This paper examines not only the architecture and design of the Church and the surrounding Sanctuary, but also the ideas of Rev. Eugeniusz Makulski, the site's founder, and Barbara Bielecka, its architect, in order to understand one of the important currents in a debate on the Polish post-Communist identity. A close analysis of this religious shrine is intended not only to understand this particular site but also to examine how national identity is (re)defined in architecture. As this paper shows, the employment of symbolic devices allows the creation of a coherent story of the Polish nation as a religious community with a history intrinsically linked to the Catholic Church. However, the annexation of the lay sphere (nation) by the sacred one (religion) leads to problematic results when it comes to the universality of the religion and the “nationalization” of the Catholic Church itself.

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A Tale of Second Cities: Autonomy, Culture, and the Law in Hamburg and Barcelona in the Late Nineteenth Century

Cited by 20 publications

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Conclusion: Overcoming Methodological Regionalism

Conclusion: Overcoming Methodological Regionalism

The Transformation of Port Cities: Local Culture and the Post-Industrial Maritime City

The Sanctuary of a sacred nation: National discourse in the style and décor of the Licheń Sanctuary

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