Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: Coal under the Pavement
The Story
Old Most
The Idea
Negotiation
Organization
Everyday Life
Five Perspectives
The Landscape and the Society
Sources of Legitimacy
The Public Space and the Limits of Criticism
Faces of Modernity
Two Stories about Technology, Power, and Freedom
Alienation
Sudetenland
Gypsies
Misery and Defiance: Most as a Site of Memory
Numbers
Coal
Technology and Revolution
The Destruction of the City
Utopia
The Ideal City
New Cities for a New Age
A War on Tradition?
Czechoslovak Variations
City of Roses
Between Stalin and Le Corbusier
The Welfare Dictatorship
A City without Roses
Criticism
Silent Spring
City, Forest, Smoke
In Defence of the Old Town
Reconciliation
The New Face of Modernity
The Amalgam of Normalization
The Velvet Demolition
A Bridge between the Past and the Future
A Laboratory of Modernity
Where the Present Begins
The Dialectics of the Age of the Technocracts
Destruction as the Achievement of Victory
The Story Has Not Ended
Maps
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Bibliography
List of Photographs
Index