Subtitle:

Social divisions and spatial practices in the urban space of the city of Łódź in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; Architektura w mieście, architektura dla miasta : przestrzeń publiczna w miastach ziem polskich w "długim" dziewiętnastym wieku ; Zabór rosyjski

Contributor:

Łupienko, Aleksander (1980– ) : Editor ; Zabłocka-Kos, Agnieszka (1957– ) : Editor ; Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla

Publisher:

Instytut Historii PAN

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 295-313 : ill. ; 24 cm ; Abstract in English

Type of object:

Book/Chapter

Abstract:

This article analyses the image of the city centre of Łódź and social practices carried out within this space resulting from diversified material and the financial situation of different social strata. On the basis of press articles, the author seeks to employ two theoretical concepts: Michel de Certeau’s “social practices” and the “reading of the city”, to evaluate the phenomena occurring in the industrial space of Łódź. In the city of Łódź, the fact that it was characterised by an almost total privatisation of urban space and shortage of public functions was conducive to its disintegration. At the same time, the lack of division into districts of workers and bourgeoisie, typical of other urban centres, imposed the necessity of interaction between various social classes. According to the analysis, there was in the city space of Łódź a practice of the cyclical appearance of various social groups in the same urban space. This was a direct consequence of the shift system of work in industry leading to the symbolic invisibility of workers in the city’s streets outside working hours in factories. The space thus freed was then occupied by the members of other social classes. Meetings between these two groups were often of a violent nature and were associated with such phenomena as prostitution and crime. A departure from this rule was Sundays and Church holidays, when the working class symbolically took control of the city’s spaces. These observations justify the hypothesis that the industrial character of Łódź and shortages of its public spaces led to the formation of alternative urban spaces, characteristic of this city only.

Start page:

295

End page:

313

Detailed Resource Type:

Chapter

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:140652 ; 978-83-65880-53-6

Source:

IH PAN, call no. II.14682 ; IH PAN, call no. II.14681 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Access:

Open