Bilenky S. Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands. Kyiv, 1800–1905.

Bilenky S. Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands. Kyiv, 1800–1905. – Toronto: 2017. – 490 p.

Language of edition: english

Historical period: 1800 – 1905

Part One: Representing the City

1 Mapping the City in Transition 19

2 Using the Past: The Great Cemetery of Rus’ 75

Part Two: Making the City

3 Municipal Autonomy under the Magdeburg Law, 1800–1835 135

4 Planning a New City: Empire Transforms Space, 1835–1870 165

5 Municipal Autonomy Reloaded: Space for Sale, 1871–1905 200

Part Three: Peopling the City

6 Counting kyivites: The Language of Class, Religion, and

Ethnicity 239

7 Municipal elites and “urban regimes”: continuities and disruptions 276

Part Four: Living (in) the City

8 Sociospatial Form and Psychogeography 301

9 What Language Did the Monuments Speak? 335

Conclusions: Towards a theory of imperial urbanism in the borderlands 356

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