Editorial note

Myths and “Reality” of Central-European Cities during the Formation of Identities

Blanka Soukupová

Essays

Father Frost Welcomes You or the Myth of New Prague as a Beautiful City in a Socialist Way

Blanka Soukupová

Since Now a City Is There: Remarks on a City Center. Examples from the City of Lodz

Grażyna Ewa Karpińska

The Project Zlín. Everyday Life in a Materialized Utopia

Barbora Vacková - Lucie Galčanová

Festivalization of the city. Contemporary examples

Małgorzata Karpińska - Krakowiak

Myth of Romani Music in Prague

Zuzana Jurková

Students' Work

Performing Race(d) music in Central Europe: Can bluegrass be "Ethnically Czech"?

Lee Bidgood

Materials

Saint Petersburg – Leningrad – Saint Petersburg. Mythization of the city

Róża Godula-Węcławowicz

Obiturials

Necrologue of Květa Kořalková

Jiří Kořalka

Reviews

Salner, Peter, Premeny židovskej Bratislavy

Blanka Soukupová

Zuzana Jurková & Lee Bidgood (eds.), Voices of the Weak: Music and Minorities

Veronika Seidlová

Daniela Stavělová, Červená růžičko, proč se nerozvíjíšj

Zuzana Jurková

Reports

The conference “Urban Memory. The City and Its Inhabitants in the 20th century”.

Alexandra Bitušíková

Seminar of the Jewish Community and Communist Society (Attempt at Analysis of the Years 1948-1968)

Blanka Soukupová

Care and Migration. International Conference

Petra Ezzeddine

Report from the 11th Conference of the “Biograf” Journal

Markéta Vaňková

The Conference “Summer in the City. Different Aspects of Culture”.

Hedvika Novotná