The volume “Parks in the Balkan Capitals: Leisure, Urban Impact, Monuments, Stories, and Significance“, edited by Alexandra Milanova and Ana-Maria Lepăr and published by Peter Lang, investigates parks as places of pivotal significance in the social, cultural, architectural and economic history of the capital cities southeastern Europe. It is a project initiated by the Balkan History Association.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
PART I
Parks and city modernization
University Park in Belgrade: The Spatial Structure of (In)visible Memory, Milja Mladenović
Narrating the Hidden Center: Exploring the Everyday Naming of Belgrade’s Park Luke Ćelović and Re-writing of Non-place from the Margins, Simon Campbell, Marta Stojić Mitrović
Belgrade Parks in the Urban Landscape Transformation, Dragana Ćorović, Zlata Vuksanović-Macura, Nevena Vasiljević, Marija Milinković
Parks as Sites of Nation-building: A Case Study of Belgrade’s Tašmajdan, Madeline Stull
Episodes from the City Park in Skopje, Violeta Bakalchev, Sasha Tasic, Aleksandar Petanovski, Minas Bakalchev
Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt Public Garden—The Green Heart of Chişinău, 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 Chajęcka
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
Index
