Issue 17 | May 2018

A Special Feature, Contemporary Urban Research in the European City

• Introduction by Nicole Shea and Eszter Gantner

Research

• “Industrial Heritage, Historic Architecture, and Today’s Transformations of Cities” by Heike Oevermann

• “Absences and Excesses in the Memory Politics of Budapest after 1989” by Juli Székely

• “Historical Layers and Cultural Intimacy: An Ethnographic Case Study of Kontula” by Pekka Tuominen

• “What Begins at the End of Urban Tourism, As We Know It?” by Christoph Sommer

• “Public Spaces, Urban Heritage, and Politics” by Cor Wagenaar

• “Linked by Research: Berlin and St. Petersburg” by Eszter Gantner

• “From Tactical Urban Interventions to Strategic Ones: Berlin and St. Petersburg” by Oleg Pachenkov and Lilia Voronkova

• “Commoning in Action: Walking in St. Petersburg, Urban Gardening in Istanbul” by Ayse Erek

Interviews

• “Migration, Integration, and Heritage in the ‘European City:’ An Interview with Wolfgang Kaschuba” by Eszter Gantner

Visual Art

• “Unseen,” an art series curated by Nicole Shea

Reviews

• “City of the Future”: Built Space, Modernity, and Urban Change in Astana, reviewed by Adrien Fauve

• Shopping Towns Europe: Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre, reviewed by Alejandro J. Gomez-del-Moral

• Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece, reviewed by Yaron Ben-Naeh and Tamir Karkason

Campus 

• “Urban Research in Europe: An Interview with Pekka Tuominen” by Eszter Gantner

Editor’s Pick

• Crime and Punishment in Russia: A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin by Jonathan Daly

• The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy D. Snyder

• Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France by Anne C. Vila