Happy: Cities and Public Happiness in Post-war EuropeCor Wagenaar Happy: Cities and Public Happiness in Post-War Europe is the result of a fascinating search for expressions and representations of happiness in the European city during the second half of the twentieth century. Images of joy in which there is a relationship between three elements--happiness, the city and space--are collated and analyzed. Drawing extensively from Europe as a whole, from the Ukraine in the east to the Netherlands in the west, Rovanieimi in the north to Marbella in the south, this study by experts on more than 50 cities was coordinated by an international research team, and presents a picture that transcends the incidental and reveals fundamental motifs in the dynamics of our thinking about the city. Happy presents an abundance of postcards, posters and photographs, and is a seminal exploration of the entire European territory using the theme of happiness. This stunning, unique overview of 50 years of post-War European history relating to one of the world's most universal themes leaves readers informed, pensive, entertained, and above all, happy. |
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... Ukrainian Communist Party , organized a competition for the reconstruction of the Kreshtchatik . The plans were designed to mesh with the political aspirations of Stalin , who wanted Russia , White Russia and the Ukraine to join the ...
... Ukrainian Communist Party , organized a competition for the reconstruction of the Kreshtchatik . The plans were designed to mesh with the political aspirations of Stalin , who wanted Russia , White Russia and the Ukraine to join the ...
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... Ukraine as well as in all successor states of the former Soviet Union . Victims of all kinds of catastrophes are being cured there , coming , for example , from the area around Chernobyl in the Ukraine and from Jakutija in Russia when ...
... Ukraine as well as in all successor states of the former Soviet Union . Victims of all kinds of catastrophes are being cured there , coming , for example , from the area around Chernobyl in the Ukraine and from Jakutija in Russia when ...
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... Ukraine , 56 Kiev , Archive of the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture , 57 Kiev , National Museum of the Ukraine , 58 top and middle : Kiev , National Film- , Photo and Phono archives of the Ukraine , bottom : Photo K ...
... Ukraine , 56 Kiev , Archive of the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture , 57 Kiev , National Museum of the Ukraine , 58 top and middle : Kiev , National Film- , Photo and Phono archives of the Ukraine , bottom : Photo K ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Eliminating the Traces of the | 25 |
Kiev May 1 2002 | 32 |
Copyright | |
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