Werner Michael Schwarz
Autore di The Myth of Galicia
Opere di Werner Michael Schwarz
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This catalogue to an exhibition in the Wienmuseum, the city of Vienna's historical museum, is a good introduction to 19th and early 20th century urban poverty, but in the wide breadth it covers (from New York to London to Paris to Vienna) it lacks depth. The numerous contributors can only start to introduce their topic to the interested reader when they have to stop to make way for the next author. Fewer contributors and longer texts would have given the narrative more punch. Secondly, the exposition does not connect the story of urban poverty in the late 19th century to what later happened in the 20th century. Otto Neurath and social housing would have been obvious and fruitful threads that the editors missed.… (altro)