"Urban Issues"

This book discusses the condition as well as the future of cities in the Kingdom of Poland in the years 1905–1915. The author examines the issue of the nineteenth-century urbanization and industrialization using methods of a discourse analysis, sociology and anthropology of cities, not to mention the achievements of historiography. He places Polish deliberations on the vision of urban development, municipal self-government, the right of city citizenship as well as the political importance of urban centres against the transformations that took place in Europe at that time. He attempts to answer questions about the 1905–1907 revolution: if it was an urban revolution and how it changed the perception of cities in Polish public discourse. He also tries to define the degree of modernization of the Polonization policies of the cities of the Kingdom of Poland. Moreover, he analyzes early-20th-century utopian visions of urban development. The book’s audience is city researchers, historians, sociologists and urban activists, as well as all those interested in the subject.