New cities arose, primarily in the Moscow Principality, the most heavily populated area. However, the Mongol yoke seriously retarded socioeconomic development of the cities. With the rise and strengthening of Moscow, city dwellers supported the struggle of the Muscovite princes for the unity of the...
Nevertheless, residents were also privileged, enjoying a lifestyle with access to better housing, food, goods, and health care than Soviet citizens elsewhere. Nowadays, of course, most of those cities are open. But they are still a very interesting phenomenons: whole settlements that are ...
Libraries, public space and obsession with cafes A NYT article about libraries and civil society was one of the warmest and most hopeful texts from the other side of the Atlantic in the recent years. It made several key points: libraries are open, inclusive and fun spaces to interact – ...
摘要: Globalization, with trade liberalization measures and fast technological changes altering the relations of production, distribution and consumption, has very substantial effects on city development. As one important consequence,(network-) economies evolved"[…] with...
The U.S. has approximately 18 official Ukrainian sister cities, according to the 2019 Sister Cities International membership directory, which is the most recent directory on the website. "Today we will say loudly and clearly that to all victims of this violence and aggression, we stand with yo...
Each ethnic group brought its religious traditions. The people of central and south-central Minnesota are heavily Roman Catholic, reflecting their German, Polish, and Bohemianheritage. Others of German descent, as well as most of those of Scandinavian heritage, are Lutheran. In the urban areas the...
there is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it. We must instead prove that we as a people are able to acknowledge, understand, reconcile and most importantly, choose a better future for ourselves, making straight what has been crooked and making right what was wrong....
Polish Cities Face the EU – Europeanization of Post-Socialist Cities as a Type of Outward Political Rescaling that a blur of the distinction between domestic and European scales, presumed in the theories of the EU system, is taking place in Polish reality.Lac... M Lackowska - 《Hrvatska I...
During the early 1900s, 57 percent of the local community was Polish-speaking (mainly miners, workers, and peasants). A German-speaking population, with higher levels of skill and education,prevailedin larger towns and cities. AfterWorld War I, Upper Silesia was the scene of three uprisings ...
Polish commuters here lost an average of 85 hours in traffic last year. Traffic in Poznan is bad enough on most days. But traffic wasespeciallybad on May 9, 2018, when this giant tanker overturned and spilled thousands of gallons of hot chocolate on Poland's A2 highway. ...