Paul Dobraszczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Dobraszczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobraszczyk |
| SIGNATURE | DOBRASZCZYK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8600-7523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The architect and the animal , edited by Kostas Tsiambaos
Dickens and demolition
Dickens and demolition: literary afterlives and mid-nineteenth-century urban development." Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 41(2), pp. 225–226
Sunken Cities
Climate change presents multiple challenges to cities-not only in terms of the resilience and sustainability of the urban fabric, but also in relation to how urban inhabitants imagine they might adapt to a future transformed environment. This article explores imaginative modes of thinking in relation to future cities and climate change, focusing on representations of urban drowning or submergence. It considers, in turn, climate-change fictions-fr…
Digging Up and Digging Down
This article explores the intersections between history, urban geography and archaeology in the context of the question “are we all archaeologists now?” Amongst scholars doing research around questions of space and place, increasingly consideration is being given to vertical architectures, including tunnelling infrastructures. The vertical stretch of human imagination and habitation, even upward, inevitably involves excavation that triggers encou…
Imperial Gothic
Traversing the fantasies of urban destruction
This paper explores the relationship between the imagination of urban destruction and a personal experience of a particular urban ruin: the former resort town of Varosha in Cyprus, abandoned since 1974. I draw out the connections between my experience of Varosha's ruined spaces and three imaginative tropes that emerged out of and influenced that experience: first, the fantasy of urban annihilation (or urbicide), an enduring trope of apocalyptic c…
Petrified ruin
This paper offers a reading of urban ruin through a personal experience: a visit I made to the Chernobyl site in October 2007—first to the destroyed reactor and then to the ruined buildings of Pripyat, using my own photographs as documents. The paper situates this experience in the context of wider representations of technological ruin and the city. Pripyat may not be a city, let alone a metropolis, but its scale as a ruin is unique in the post‐w…
Give in your account’
Journal Article ‘Give in your account’: Using and Abusing Victorian Census Forms Get access Paul Dobraszczyk Paul Dobraszczyk 1University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 1–25, https://doi.org/10.3366/E1355550209000575 Published: 01 January 2009
The Culture of Flushing
Reviewed by: The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage Paul Dobraszczyk (bio) The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage. By Jamie Benidickson . Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006 Pp. xxii+404. C$85/ C$29.95. This book offers a pertinent contribution to the often fraught debates on environmental quality versus economic stability that lie at the heart of human uses and abuses of water. Jamie Benidickson, a legal hist…
Cleansing the City
Reviewed by: Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London Paul Dobraszczyk (bio) Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London. By Michelle Allen. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. Pp. x+225. $49.95/$24.95. In this book, Michelle Allen revisits the much-discussed subject of the sanitary development of London in the nineteenth century. Yet, as she makes clear in her introduction, she goes against the grain of the …
Image and Audience
This article considers the role of technical representations in the building of one of the most significant civil engineering projects of the mid-nineteenth century, London's main drainage system, designed and overseen by the engineer Joseph Bazalgette. It explores the ways in which the contract-composed of engineering drawings and an accompanying specification-mediated the relationship between Bazalgette and his most important ally, the contract…
Architecture and Dirt Introduction
Petrified ruin
This paper offers a reading of urban ruin through a personal experience: a visit I made to the Chernobyl site in October 2007—first to the destroyed reactor and then to the ruined buildings of Pripyat, using my own photographs as documents. The paper situates this experience in the context of wider representations of technological ruin and the city. Pripyat may not be a city, let alone a metropolis, but its scale as a ruin is unique in the post‐w…
Digging Up and Digging Down
This article explores the intersections between history, urban geography and archaeology in the context of the question “are we all archaeologists now?” Amongst scholars doing research around questions of space and place, increasingly consideration is being given to vertical architectures, including tunnelling infrastructures. The vertical stretch of human imagination and habitation, even upward, inevitably involves excavation that triggers encou…
Sunken Cities
Climate change presents multiple challenges to cities-not only in terms of the resilience and sustainability of the urban fabric, but also in relation to how urban inhabitants imagine they might adapt to a future transformed environment. This article explores imaginative modes of thinking in relation to future cities and climate change, focusing on representations of urban drowning or submergence. It considers, in turn, climate-change fictions-fr…
Traversing the fantasies of urban destruction
This paper explores the relationship between the imagination of urban destruction and a personal experience of a particular urban ruin: the former resort town of Varosha in Cyprus, abandoned since 1974. I draw out the connections between my experience of Varosha's ruined spaces and three imaginative tropes that emerged out of and influenced that experience: first, the fantasy of urban annihilation (or urbicide), an enduring trope of apocalyptic c…
Dickens and demolition
Dickens and demolition: literary afterlives and mid-nineteenth-century urban development." Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 41(2), pp. 225–226
Image and Audience
This article considers the role of technical representations in the building of one of the most significant civil engineering projects of the mid-nineteenth century, London's main drainage system, designed and overseen by the engineer Joseph Bazalgette. It explores the ways in which the contract-composed of engineering drawings and an accompanying specification-mediated the relationship between Bazalgette and his most important ally, the contract…
Architecture and Dirt Introduction
Architecture and Dirt Introduction
The Culture of Flushing
Reviewed by: The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage Paul Dobraszczyk (bio) The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage. By Jamie Benidickson . Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006 Pp. xxii+404. C$85/ C$29.95. This book offers a pertinent contribution to the often fraught debates on environmental quality versus economic stability that lie at the heart of human uses and abuses of water. Jamie Benidickson, a legal hist…
Cleansing the City
Reviewed by: Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London Paul Dobraszczyk (bio) Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London. By Michelle Allen. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. Pp. x+225. $49.95/$24.95. In this book, Michelle Allen revisits the much-discussed subject of the sanitary development of London in the nineteenth century. Yet, as she makes clear in her introduction, she goes against the grain of the …
Image and Audience
This article considers the role of technical representations in the building of one of the most significant civil engineering projects of the mid-nineteenth century, London's main drainage system, designed and overseen by the engineer Joseph Bazalgette. It explores the ways in which the contract-composed of engineering drawings and an accompanying specification-mediated the relationship between Bazalgette and his most important ally, the contract…
Give in your account’
Journal Article ‘Give in your account’: Using and Abusing Victorian Census Forms Get access Paul Dobraszczyk Paul Dobraszczyk 1University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 1–25, https://doi.org/10.3366/E1355550209000575 Published: 01 January 2009
Petrified ruin
This paper offers a reading of urban ruin through a personal experience: a visit I made to the Chernobyl site in October 2007—first to the destroyed reactor and then to the ruined buildings of Pripyat, using my own photographs as documents. The paper situates this experience in the context of wider representations of technological ruin and the city. Pripyat may not be a city, let alone a metropolis, but its scale as a ruin is unique in the post‐w…
Imperial Gothic
Traversing the fantasies of urban destruction
This paper explores the relationship between the imagination of urban destruction and a personal experience of a particular urban ruin: the former resort town of Varosha in Cyprus, abandoned since 1974. I draw out the connections between my experience of Varosha's ruined spaces and three imaginative tropes that emerged out of and influenced that experience: first, the fantasy of urban annihilation (or urbicide), an enduring trope of apocalyptic c…
Digging Up and Digging Down
This article explores the intersections between history, urban geography and archaeology in the context of the question “are we all archaeologists now?” Amongst scholars doing research around questions of space and place, increasingly consideration is being given to vertical architectures, including tunnelling infrastructures. The vertical stretch of human imagination and habitation, even upward, inevitably involves excavation that triggers encou…
Sunken Cities
Climate change presents multiple challenges to cities-not only in terms of the resilience and sustainability of the urban fabric, but also in relation to how urban inhabitants imagine they might adapt to a future transformed environment. This article explores imaginative modes of thinking in relation to future cities and climate change, focusing on representations of urban drowning or submergence. It considers, in turn, climate-change fictions-fr…
Dickens and demolition
Dickens and demolition: literary afterlives and mid-nineteenth-century urban development." Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 41(2), pp. 225–226
The architect and the animal , edited by Kostas Tsiambaos
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