CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Iuga, Liliana |
|---|---|
| Title | Nationalizing the City: Monuments of Romanianness and Public Space in Interwar Cluj (1919-1933) |
| Summary | In this thesis I study the process of the nationalization of an interwar provincial city coming from a post-imperial (i.e. Habsburg) context and integrated into the framework of a new nation-state (i.e. Greater Romania). More precisely, I look at public space policies in order to observe how local elite groups aimed to create a dominant discourse and impose control over the urban space. Analyzing the example of Cluj, the unofficial Transylvanian capital, I focus on two case studies, namely the Orthodox Cathedral and the monument for Avram Iancu. Both projects were initiated by local elites at the beginning of the 1920s as part of an ambitious agenda of imposing a Romanian identification on the city center and thus counterbalance the “foreign” (i.e. Hungarian) appearance of the city. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin; Prokopovych, Markian |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/iuga_liliana.pdf |
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