Narrating the City

List of Figures

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Space, Narration, and the Everyday

Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier



PART I: NARRATIVES AND IMAGES OF THE CITY



Chapter 1. The Case of Ossification: Contemporary Narratives about Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Lviv

Andriy Zayarnyuk



Chapter 2. The Masa's Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas: The Testimony of Novels, 1920s-1970s

Arturo Almandoz



Chapter 3. Re-imagining Nieuwland: Narrative Mapping and the Mental Geography of Urban Space in a Dutch Multi-Ethnic Neighborhood

Leeke Reinders



PART II: CLAIMING URBAN SPACE



Chapter 4. City and Cinema as Spaces for (trans-national) Grassroots Mobilization: Perspectives from Southeastern and Central Europe

Anna Schober



Chapter 5. Adjudicating Lodging: Denazification, Housing Requisition, and Identity in "Red Vienna," 1945-1948

Matthew P. Berg



PART III: LIVING AND WORKING IN THE CITY



Chapter 6. Urban Information Flows: Workers' and Employers' Knowledge of the Asbestos Hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950-1970s

Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor



Chapter 7. Creating a Familiar Space: Childcare, Kinship, and Community in Post-Socialist New Zagreb

Tihana Rubic and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits



Notes on Contributors

Index