City of Modernity. Lódz
Badowska, Katarzyna / Cieslak, Tomasz / Pietrych, Krystyna / Radziszewska, Krystyna
City of Modernity consists of 33 essays about Lódz, a city that started out as an agricultural settlement and became a metropolis within a single generation, all thanks to technological progress. Its population of 767 in 1820, it had grown to 767, 000 by 1939. At the turn of the century, it emblematized modernization and industrialization, and was a symbol of industrial-era modernity. It was often compared to Manchester and its truly American ...